Denver Coin With A Philly Look
Published by Larry on Tagged 1900's Coins, Coin Collecting Basics, Instuctional
One of the most widely collected US coins is the Lincoln Cent. It has a great heritage of 100 years with some very interesting varieties. One of the most sought after dates is the 1922 with no mintmark. All of the pennies of that year were minted in Denver. However, there were several dies that produced coins that had little or no mintmark and thus this high demand coin is subject to the problems of forgery and misattribution. Here is a picture of a clear 1922 D and what has been called the 1922 Plain – a Philly look to a Denver penny.
In coin collecting great demand equals great value. The 1922 “Plain” above is the coin that got me started into coin collecting in 1962. I was a high school sophomore going thru the lunch line and handed the cafeteria worker a quarter to pay for my meal. I received three pennies in change with the 1922 as the prize that hooked me into the coin collecting hobby. It is a variety 2 specimen worth more than a thousand dollars today and was about a $40-50.00 coin in 1962. An uncirculated Die Pair 2 has a mushy 9 and weak second 2 in the date and a very strong reverse. This great demand coin is valued at more than $30,000. Other dies produced weak D mints and those coins are worth a few hundred dollars as well. This is one of the few wheat pennies that I have not located with a metal detector or heard of a detectorist finding one. Keep on digging! You may find a winner.
March 28th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
hi all..i’m new to this hobby but am hooked bigtime . i’m using a bounty hunter trackeri ID (yeah but it was given to me so it does the job lol ) and ive found a lot of clad with it. I’m in NW ohio and looking in a few old farmhouse yards..and i’m finding wheaties dating abck to 1921, and a few nickels including a couple indian heads from 1935. BUT..no silver?? none at all here sof ar. I’m wondering if these houses have already been hit since these last few houses have yielded very little clad at all..and no silver whatsoever. i set my sensitivity pretty high..almost all the way…and my discriminationat almost the all metal mode. ( just 2 knobs on this machine..and no digital readout..with a broken needle on the mete lol) i can tell trash from good coins..since th coins all give a good tone (except nickels) so it is set ok i thought. ive found the wheaties anywhere from 3 to about 6 inches deep..so its reading deep enough i would think for the silver to be found. but the lack of silver puzzles me….any thought or ideas? suggestions on y settings?
thanks for reading this…and happy hunting all .
March 30th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Hook,
Congratulations on entry and good finds made so far. I am not sure as to why no silver if you are finding wheats in the 3 to 6 inch range. 75% of all my silver finds were less than 4 inches deep and I am speaking about 15,000 dug silver coins. A possibility of someone using notch discrimination and only digging silver finds is somewhat remote. Silver dimes are small and some machines pick them up a lot better than others. However quarters and half dollar silver coins, though less frequently lost, are readily picked up by almost any detector. A slower search speed with a good headset might pick up some deeper dimes.
April 3rd, 2009 at 5:04 pm
Larry Says:
March 30th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Hook,
Congratulations on entry and good finds made so far. I am not sure as to why no silver if you are finding wheats in the 3 to 6 inch range. 75% of all my silver finds were less than 4 inches deep and I am speaking about 15,000 dug silver coins. A possibility of someone using notch discrimination and only digging silver finds is somewhat remote. Silver dimes are small and some machines pick them up a lot better than others. However quarters and half dollar silver coins, though less frequently lost, are readily picked up by almost any detector. A slower search speed with a good headset might pick up some deeper dimes.
April 3rd, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Thanks for replying to my post and my questions Larry . I am curious as to what tone a silver coin will give me on this bounty hunter…i found a rosie last year real shallow…about 2 inches ..and if memory serves me right it sounded like any other dime sounds. as far as deeper silver on these houses i’m hunting…i set sens up almost all the way and sens just barely out of al metal mode. i sweep slowly and overlap my swings as much as possible…trying not to miss any signals…BUT…i’m real close to an airport with F16′s taking off and landing a lot…and its so noisy i actually have to pause between the planes lol. Methinks i do need a decent set of earphones since i’m not using any at all. maybe the silver is there and i just cant read it ….i dunno.
April 9th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Hook,
The lack of headphones will cause you to lose those deeper faint signals that come from silver dimes buried deeper. I have found less silver with BH units too. My favorite silver machines are Fisher units and Tesoro units have always given me better separation for nickels.