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relicsncoinsrelicsncoins Posts: 8,103 ✭✭✭✭✭
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This was recently found with a metal detector. It was not found by me, but I wish it was. Quite a find for sure.

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  • partagaspartagas Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭
    Amazing its that well preserved over the last 200+ years. What a rush that had to be digging that up.
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  • PTVETTERPTVETTER Posts: 5,998 ✭✭✭✭✭
    QUITE a fine indeed
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  • tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭


    ........very! very!..image
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  • NightHawkNightHawk Posts: 87 ✭
    if I found that you'd hear me screaming for miles!

    Hell I'm happy just finding ANY type of silver.


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  • jmj3esqjmj3esq Posts: 5,421 ✭
    How on earth does a silver coin over 200 years old not corrode in the ground?image

    If real that is amazing!
  • yellowkidyellowkid Posts: 5,486 ✭
    Wow! Where can I get a metal detctor?????image
  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,853 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Would like to know the details on that one!
    Every silver coin I've found more that 50 years old has real
    problems from reaction to the soil, moisture, etc.

    Would the finder like to elaborate so that we detectorists can
    focus on such locations?

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  • relicsncoinsrelicsncoins Posts: 8,103 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Would like to know the details on that one!
    Every silver coin I've found more that 50 years old has real
    problems from reaction to the soil, moisture, etc.

    Would the finder like to elaborate so that we detectorists can
    focus on such locations?

    bob >>



    I don't know the person that found it, it was posted on a metal detecting forum that I was reading.
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  • eggboneeggbone Posts: 615 ✭
    Great find!
    I just wonder how it was contained, as it looks miraculously clean to have been buried.

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  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    i do not believe any silver coin could be in the ground for any length of time unprotected and look like that. i just don't believe it.
  • jonathanbjonathanb Posts: 3,722 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don't know anything about this particular find, but I have no problems believing it. Preservation is VERY dependent on soil quality. Here in the Northeast, the soil quality varies IMMENSELY. I've dug nasty black slugs just a few blocks from places where I dug basically untoned silver, in each case unquestionably buried for 50+ years.

    I understand that some parts of the country have very similar soil across wide areas, so I expect that some folks have never seen more than one type of ground find.

    I'm not up on early dimes (half dimes?). Could someone give a quick synopsis and value estimate for this find?

    jonathan
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  • relicsncoinsrelicsncoins Posts: 8,103 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hey, believe what you want. Like I said, I don't know the guy that found it. I can show you coins that have been in the ground at least 100 years, and all I did was rinse the dirt off of them, and they are still silver colored. They find Roman silver in England that is still in good shape, and it has been in the ground 2000 years, not a measly 200.
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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If the soil is sandy and usually dry, for example in sheltered areas such as barn floors, dirt cellar floors of old buildings (we have some here from the early 17th century), it would have low reactive properties and could easily preserve a coin like that. If it were constantly exposed to the elements, then I would agree with Keets... Cheers, RickO
  • WillieBoyd2WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,250 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Metal detector find in Shanghai?
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  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Wait a mo, it is written in the

    Chronicles of Narnia, that under

    no circumstances, are we ever allowed

    to agree with Keets. image
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  • Tdec1000Tdec1000 Posts: 3,852 ✭✭✭
    It is true, I have pulled out a few Barber Halves and even a SLQ that was a very nice AU and UNC respectfully. Alot of it has to do with the ground/earth that it came out of. Amazingly they really don't tone dark in the ground where i live.
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  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,556 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Pretty cool.
    I, for one, don't care if it is a real find or not.....I'm not looking to buy it nor am I involved with it, so I don't care other than just looking at it image
    (too many folks are always negative no matter what they see/hear)

    Thanks for sharing the pics and, if it is true, that is especially cool and I look forward to seeing something in CW or NN about it image

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  • pmacpmac Posts: 3,189 ✭✭✭
    There are assumptions here that might seem a stretch. Why do people think it was buried for over 200 years? (Maybe a thief discarded the coin and it was found be a metal detector)(Maybe somebody lost it transporting it and this was the only way to find it)
    Paul
  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The person who posted the find in the detecting forum is incredibly skillful and in my opinion one of the finest detectorists in the country. The dime was found by his detecting partner while he was there detecting alongside him. I believe it 100%. And yes, you can pull 100 or 200 year old silver out of the ground looking like it was just dropped. That's one of the reasons silver was valued and has been used by Croesus and his heirs in coinage for the last 2000+ years.
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  • intenceintence Posts: 1,255 ✭
    awesome metal detector find!
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  • mumumumu Posts: 1,840
    Ecen the silver in ms69 cameo morgans was burried maybe for MILLIons of years before it arrived at the mint!
  • rheddenrhedden Posts: 6,630 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That is a disgustingly nice find. As a detectorist with many years of experience, I would guess that it's an actual ground recovery, not a joke. The surfaces look right for a ground recovery. Most silver coins come out of the ground non-corroded, even in the wet, nasty soil in PA and NY where I used to detect (but copper and nickel are generally destroyed). I have previously dug up a 1954-S dime and an 1899-P dime, both in AU58+ with full luster. The 1899 Barber would make it into a PCGS slab, I would guess.

  • richardshipprichardshipp Posts: 5,647 ✭✭✭
    If I'd of found it I'd still be running around screaming like a crazy person.
  • coinnut86coinnut86 Posts: 1,592 ✭✭✭


    << <i>The person who posted the find in the detecting forum is incredibly skillful and in my opinion one of the finest detectorists in the country. The dime was found by his detecting partner while he was there detecting alongside him. I believe it 100%. And yes, you can pull 100 or 200 year old silver out of the ground looking like it was just dropped. That's one of the reasons silver was valued and has been used by Croesus and his heirs in coinage for the last 2000+ years. >>




    If Weiss believes it, I believe it.
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  • DorkGirlDorkGirl Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭
    Very image
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  • ARCOARCO Posts: 4,422 ✭✭✭✭✭
    And I thought that finding two clad quarters side by side with my metal detector was exciting.

    Any details about how deep or where it was found? Maybe I will find older coins if I go outside of parks built in the 70's and 80's? image

    Tyler
  • TheRegulatorTheRegulator Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭
    Such an amazing find...

    Then I read that the finder is having the piece "professionally cleaned." Nooooooooooo!!! If he sends that piece to NCS it'll probably come back looking like a polished POS. image
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  • lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 8,338 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>i do not believe any silver coin could be in the ground for any length of time unprotected and look like that. i just don't believe it. >>



    I agree with Keets! Even if the coin was dropped in the Arizona desert outside of Yuma there would be some amount of corrosion
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  • mozeppamozeppa Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭
    so what is it?

    disme?
    what?
  • fcloudfcloud Posts: 12,133 ✭✭✭✭
    It all depends on location. Possible to find like that -- yes. It doesn't have to have been lost in 1796 you know.

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  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,089 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>It doesn't have to have been lost in 1796 you know. >>


    My thought as well.

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  • ocon4008ocon4008 Posts: 1,703
    <<so what is it?

    disme?
    what? >>

    1796 half dime PGCS NO. 4554; my guess EF to AU $8,000 to $12,000. Not bad for a days work.
  • joebb21joebb21 Posts: 4,759 ✭✭✭✭✭
    when its slabbed Ill be believing
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  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Abe, that's "The Chronicles of Nunya" BTW!!!image
  • WinLoseWinWinLoseWin Posts: 1,644 ✭✭✭✭✭



    << <i>image >>





    hammered54


    While not as nice as the 1796 dime, that pic is still an amazing find with a metal detector. Looks fresh out of the refrigerator instead of the ground. image

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  • seatedcollectorseatedcollector Posts: 976 ✭
    silver is not impervious to the elements but more resistant to corrosion than say copper. i personally have found mercury dimes from the 40's with mint luster still shining, it depends on the type of soil, i found a couple civil war tokens in sandy soil and they look better than most of the wheats ive found in darker soil. just because it was in the ground, doesnt mean its gonna get pitted and corroded. i imagine any silver found on a california salt water beach will be tore up, but if i find a seated dime here in michgan, i can fully expect it to look like it was dropped recently
  • BoomBoom Posts: 10,165 ✭
    Absolutely gorgeous.

    Jackpot!

    Cha ching - Badda Bing!

    Congrats to the finder.

    Wow!!!!! imageimage
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  • coinmaniccoinmanic Posts: 572
    Maybe the guy that lost it 200 years ago had it ina 2 X 2.
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  • BoomBoom Posts: 10,165 ✭
    Look at the dusty/ sandy residue.

    Definitely a dry environment but
    chuckle head is getting body oils
    on it! imageimage
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  • nankrautnankraut Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Metal detector find in Shanghai? >>

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    Bingo!!
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