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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3132603, member: 10461"]Googling the details fails me at the moment, but I vividly recall reading an article in the mid-1990s in <i>Western & Eastern Treasures</i> magazine about a detectorist up in New England who was hunting alongside an old stone wall in a field or apple orchard.</p><p><br /></p><p>He found a large cent. Then another, and another, until they started coming up by the handful. Eventually about 700 of them were found in a tight cluster near the base of the wall, where they had apparently been buried in the early 1800s in some kind of sack which had long since disintegrated in the ground. If I remember correctly, the "newest" coin in the hoard was dated 1820.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was a 1793 Chain cent in the hoard, but even more interestingly, an extremely rare 1784 <a href="http://m.pcgscoinfacts.com/Coin/AuctionDetail/695/itemid/-6923362075553876470" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://m.pcgscoinfacts.com/Coin/AuctionDetail/695/itemid/-6923362075553876470" rel="nofollow">Washington "Ugly Head" copper</a>, as well. (The one I linked to is not necessarily the one that was found.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3132603, member: 10461"]Googling the details fails me at the moment, but I vividly recall reading an article in the mid-1990s in [I]Western & Eastern Treasures[/I] magazine about a detectorist up in New England who was hunting alongside an old stone wall in a field or apple orchard. He found a large cent. Then another, and another, until they started coming up by the handful. Eventually about 700 of them were found in a tight cluster near the base of the wall, where they had apparently been buried in the early 1800s in some kind of sack which had long since disintegrated in the ground. If I remember correctly, the "newest" coin in the hoard was dated 1820. There was a 1793 Chain cent in the hoard, but even more interestingly, an extremely rare 1784 [URL='http://m.pcgscoinfacts.com/Coin/AuctionDetail/695/itemid/-6923362075553876470']Washington "Ugly Head" copper[/URL], as well. (The one I linked to is not necessarily the one that was found.)[/QUOTE]
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