<< <i>I liked Lord Marcovan's picture of the tornado. Looks like the scenery in the part of Texas I live in. >>
I reserve that for the suckiest of suckers. Dunno where the pic was taken- it was a Google Images grab.
<< <i>...I'd guess finding one in a storm drain is probably a R-7 occurrence! >>
Indeed. We detectorists of pure heart have two ways of rating a find- one is the more traditional method of consulting its monetary value, but the other, and the one that I usually go by, is by how rare of a find it is- in other words, how rare the chances of finding it were. For instance, as a collector, I could see a beat-up Morgan dollar in a junk silver bag, and think of it as nothing but bullion and wouldn't look at it twice, but if I were to dig the same coin out of the ground, I'd be ecstatic and treasure it, because silver dollars are rare detecting finds- big coins like that didn't stay lost as easily. A silver dollar find is often a once- or twice- in a lifetime find for a digger, and I haven't dug mine yet.
<< <i>My guess would be that it fell off someone's bracelet, or was lost from a collection somehow. It would have been lost fairly recently. It would be a real leap to think that this was an actual circulation loss from the period. >>
I do agree that the odds favor it having been a much more recent loss than the date of the coin. But sometimes that is the fun of finding stuff "in the wild"- you never know how long it's been out there, or how it got there, so you can speculate about it and make up your own mental movie.
Oh, and FWIW, I believe the story completely. The detail that clinched that for me was where he talked about thinking it was a brass tack and rubbing on it. I've dug those tacks with the octagonal head on 'em- the detector really likes 'em and they'll ring in the "coin" range almost every time. So I would have had an identical reaction at first. I thought this was a key fob or tool check when I dug it on a construction site.
Wow; finding 1850s fractional gold kind of trumps the wheat penny I found in the parking lot on the way to Disney World. You are now King of Found Money! All hail TexasToken!
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<< <i> I can get a PSA 10 puking patty or adam bomb >>
lol keep the gold!
Steve
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<< <i>I liked Lord Marcovan's picture of the tornado. Looks like the scenery in the part of Texas I live in. >>
I reserve that for the suckiest of suckers. Dunno where the pic was taken- it was a Google Images grab.
<< <i>...I'd guess finding one in a storm drain is probably a R-7 occurrence! >>
Indeed. We detectorists of pure heart have two ways of rating a find- one is the more traditional method of consulting its monetary value, but the other, and the one that I usually go by, is by how rare of a find it is- in other words, how rare the chances of finding it were. For instance, as a collector, I could see a beat-up Morgan dollar in a junk silver bag, and think of it as nothing but bullion and wouldn't look at it twice, but if I were to dig the same coin out of the ground, I'd be ecstatic and treasure it, because silver dollars are rare detecting finds- big coins like that didn't stay lost as easily. A silver dollar find is often a once- or twice- in a lifetime find for a digger, and I haven't dug mine yet.
<< <i>My guess would be that it fell off someone's bracelet, or was lost from a collection somehow. It would have been lost fairly recently. It would be a real leap to think that this was an actual circulation loss from the period. >>
I do agree that the odds favor it having been a much more recent loss than the date of the coin. But sometimes that is the fun of finding stuff "in the wild"- you never know how long it's been out there, or how it got there, so you can speculate about it and make up your own mental movie.
Oh, and FWIW, I believe the story completely. The detail that clinched that for me was where he talked about thinking it was a brass tack and rubbing on it. I've dug those tacks with the octagonal head on 'em- the detector really likes 'em and they'll ring in the "coin" range almost every time. So I would have had an identical reaction at first. I thought this was a key fob or tool check when I dug it on a construction site.
<< <i>Amazing find--and story! >>
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