Check out this 1792 half disme

jhuberdude

Found by a metal detectorist! If only I could find something like this my family wouldn't think I was a kook!
Damn!

It is for sale in the ANR Allison Park Auction. Lot #266

nwcs

Was this the one that was posted here a couple months ago? It sure does make you want to buy a metal detector, doesn't it? The thing is finding the places where you can do it and then have time/money to go there and do it.

coinguy89

Wow, that is history my friend. How would a coin like that grade, i've never seen a graded one, or any guides for grading this particular coin?

SemperFI

That is a pretty cool "Half Disme"!

kryptonitecomics

Unbelievable!!!!! I owned a metal detector for a year and never found anything older than 1965...........Florida just doesn't have the historic sites to hunt like some States do

I wonder what it well sell for even in that condition?????

sumnom

Doesn't Florida have some of the oldest European settlement sites in the US?

jhuberdude

They grade it "EF Details"
After getting back into coins a few years ago, I started thinking about MDs again. I always wanted one, but never got one as a kid. I bought a 300 dollar Whites MD a little over a year ago.
I have spent lots of time detecting and everyone I know thinks I have lost it. Welll I have not found one of these, but have had lots of fun and have found some cool stuff.
If you go to the beach you will find lots of clad...about 60 bucks so far for me.
I have also found some cool coin stuff...
You never know what could be out there.
I post a pic later.

Gonfunko

Why don't you come over to the MD forum? We need more people over there.

Cladiator

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

JrGMan2004

<< <i>Doesn't Florida have some of the oldest European settlement sites in the US? >>

Yeah, there should be some nice places... but you also have to consider, the spots are kinda sparsely spread out... it wasn't until A/C was invented that Florida became more heavilly settled... before that, it was just a handful of forts and cities, and Native American tribes... so, you there's only a handful of spots that would be good for digging old US Coins... you could probally do well getting old Spanish trinkets around St. Augustine, and also Fort DeSoto, which would also probally prove to be a good spot for military memorbilia, as that was where the forces going to Cuba staged, that included Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders...

mrearlygold

<< <i>Doesn't Florida have some of the oldest European settlement sites in the US? >>




Yup, oldest city in the USA is in Florida. St Augustine

Rgrds
Tom

jhuberdude

Hey Gonfunko I will have to do that.
Here is one of my better coin finds...

Draco

Living just outside York, PA.. . lots of history here. . .I've been thinking on it for a long time, but I doubt I actually find the time to treasure hunt. My house is located just a few miles from the old north central railroad (now called the Heritage rail trail). A lot of civil war troops passed by here and Mr. Lincoln passed near me on his way to deliver the Gettysburg address.

dorkkarl

killer coin! the only thing i ever found w/ a metal detector when i was a kid was bottle caps....

K S

ms70

I'd drop dead if I ever dug that up!