Here's a pretty dug Seated dime...
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Figgered I'd post this as a warmup to tomorrow's upcoming detector outing, which I hope will be more productive than the one Easter Sunday (which I didn't do a writeup for).
It came out nice in the original pix, too, but I crunched the filesize down and now the image is grainy. Oh, well.
You gotta admit it's a beauty for a dug one.
No, I didn't find it personally, but I bought it from the relic hunter who did. He dug it several years ago at the site of one of the biggest antebellum rice plantations in the area, along the Butler River here. I once had an opportunity to hunt the same site, and was all keyed up because somebody else had recently found a Seated half.
All I got for my troubles there was the worst case of chiggers ever. (Redbugs). My lower legs still carry the scars, some three or four years later.
Sure, that's probably secondary toning on the coin, as it was likely to have been cleaned after it was found. That's just the way it is with detector finds. But I have noticed many of the coins I dug and subsequently cleaned ten or twelve years ago have picked up some nice secondary toning in my album. That's probably what happened here. While the toning isn't exactly "original", you couldn't quite call it "artificial", either, I suppose, since it happened naturally over time. Whatever the case, it's a nice look.
It came out nice in the original pix, too, but I crunched the filesize down and now the image is grainy. Oh, well.
You gotta admit it's a beauty for a dug one.
No, I didn't find it personally, but I bought it from the relic hunter who did. He dug it several years ago at the site of one of the biggest antebellum rice plantations in the area, along the Butler River here. I once had an opportunity to hunt the same site, and was all keyed up because somebody else had recently found a Seated half.
All I got for my troubles there was the worst case of chiggers ever. (Redbugs). My lower legs still carry the scars, some three or four years later.
Sure, that's probably secondary toning on the coin, as it was likely to have been cleaned after it was found. That's just the way it is with detector finds. But I have noticed many of the coins I dug and subsequently cleaned ten or twelve years ago have picked up some nice secondary toning in my album. That's probably what happened here. While the toning isn't exactly "original", you couldn't quite call it "artificial", either, I suppose, since it happened naturally over time. Whatever the case, it's a nice look.
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Good luck and keep us posted. Even some local pictures will do
Stefanie
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<< <i>I recently bought a metal detector from Sears and started digging on old properties all due to reading your very cool and well written stories. Haven't found anything as of yet but then still learning the gadget. Someday I hope to find something like what you just pictured, wait I just remembered I found one item, an old token about 4 inches in the ground originating in S.F. CA per records here from the local dealer, very cool find since it is my first and it is old. >>
Funny, I got MY first "real" detector from Sears, back in 1982. It was an old TR-Discriminator unit.
If you're pokin' down to the four-inch level, you're already well into silver territory. And some of those old tokens count as good as a coin to me (in some cases, even better). I'd love to see that. Post it over on the MD Forum if you get a chance!
"Everything is on its way to somewhere. Everything." - George Malley, Phenomenon
http://www.american-legacy-coins.com
Plus this nice Barber. A rusty pocketknife came out of the same hole it was in, so it wasn't difficult to picture the scenario.