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Half dime enthusiasts: break out your detectors, there are 1792s in the dirt!
rhedden
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Forget about coin shows. You all need to go metal detecting with this guy.
Link to another forum, worth your time.
Another guy on that forum posted an 1805 half dime recovered in upstate NY last year. Now I know why they are so rare: they're all out there in the dirt! There is hope for me to obtain a 1792 and an 1802 after all.
Link to another forum, worth your time.
Another guy on that forum posted an 1805 half dime recovered in upstate NY last year. Now I know why they are so rare: they're all out there in the dirt! There is hope for me to obtain a 1792 and an 1802 after all.
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That may well be the most important detecting find in literally decades. If it's confirmed to actually be an original 1792 that is big, BIG news. Look for some articles in numismatic magazines to be written if it is indeed confirmed. If it's legit I hope it comes to the market. One in that condition will be less expensive than the higher grade coins I've seen on the market lately. Perhaps this will give one lucky collector the chance to own a 1792 Half Disme that didn't have that chance before.
That is SUPER cool. Thanks for the link!!
-Amanda
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Even the one-in-who-knows how many chance to find something like that makes me want to take up detecting.
Cheers, Jessie L.
<< <i>The funny thing is that this is NOT the first story I have heard of a detectorist recovering a 1792 half dime. There was one 2-3 years back where someone claimed to unearth one in Philly. If true, this is great support for the idea that they circulated like business strikes. >>
Rhedden, I remember that one. It was actually found in New Jersey. It was EF details, lots of scratches from being buried. It was sold in the ANR pre-ANA auction in Pittsburgh in 2004, and went for $23,000 incl. the buyer's fee. I was at the sale, the auctioneer was Frank Van Valen, and he made a comment about it being unusual because it was something pleasant that had been dug up in New Jersey (FVV is from N. J.). So this is another one, awesome!
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That's one big, bad coin- have you seen what they sell for these days?
The best I have dug is this key date 1903-S dime, found a whopping 1 inch deep in upstate NY of all places.
<< <i>I'll hold off on the oohs and aahs until it is confirmed as completely genuine by a TPG or other.
The picture isn't great, but it looks real to me.
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Now that I've been detecting for a decade, I've seen a handfull of the MA series dug. Continental currency. Endless colonial issues.
Maybe it's time to raise the bar. Smoeone out there needs to dig a Brasher!!
--Severian the Lame
<< <i>Smoeone out there needs to dig a Brasher!! >>
Smoeone down here did exactly that, in or near my hometown in coastal GA. Not a Brasher doubloon, per se, but if I recall correctly it was a 1766 British gold guinea with the EB counterstamp punched into the obverse field. So the story goes, anyhow.
PS-I remember reading about the find in print, in the mid- to late-1990s, but websearching doesn't bring anything up- I can't confirm the tale. However, the person who found it is a bonafide, bigtime relic hunter who's made the national spotlight a time or two, so him being the finder of such a coin is credible enough.