Silver Dollar!

fistfulladirt

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Secured permission at church site yesterday, and hunted there for an hour before the skeeters drove me nuts. Made a run for the country store and bought a can of OFF, paid 8 bucks but it was worth it!
Went back and continued working the small picnic area out back, lots of junk in the ground, got a weird tone and decided to dig. Out came this big black disk. Scorched Morgan dollar!
Decided to try and clean it, cause at first I thought it was a fake.
That may have been a mistake, but I don't plan on selling my finds anyway.....enjoy pics. ffd
 

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postalgriff

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nice score! WTG! scorched or not, its a sweet morgan. congrats on the bunch of wheats too. looks like good place, the church from the old photos? gotta love that research paying off :thumbsup:
 

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I voted that it is real, very nice find....Matt
 

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Congrats Big Time. I detected for 10 years and never scored a silver dollar! Great find!! Keep em coming Duane. Congrats again. Jim The junk may mean noone has detected the place before. Hope so.
 

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Thanks everyone, yes I found the dollar at the church site, sought permission to detect and spoke to the priest about the history of the place. The caretaker there, (nice place) told me that many have hunted there over the years. Father there even gave me a book on the history of the church...side of the property I hunted is newer, (1899), as the original church sat in the cemetary on the opp side of road. ffd
 

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man I sure hope there is more there for ya, nice find! what did you use to clean it? I would of tried too. that aluminum religious token you found is pretty sweet too. good luck out there :thumbsup:
 

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postalgriff said:
man I sure hope there is more there for ya, nice find! what did you use to clean it? I would of tried too. that aluminum religious token you found is pretty sweet too. good luck out there :thumbsup:
Ha ha believe it or not, a little spit and shiny side of a piece aluminum foil. If it wasn't already scorched, I wouldn't have had to try to restore it. Final pics:
 

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Nice day fist! love the morgan and that canadian one cent! Not sure I have seen one of those yet! congrats!
 

coltdavis

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Awesome find! congrats on a sweet coin, scorched or not its still awesome :thumbsup: :thumbsup: keep it up! best of luck and HH
 

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Don't you love the way big silver lights up a detector? I have only found one silver dollar and it was a great experience. Monty
 

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NealNoINIronBrigade said:
Super find! Still looking for my first!

Hey Neal, what you doing here in the Michigan detecting area? :headbang: You still finding tons of indian heads or has it slowed in your area? You probably found em all. Good to see ya typing around here. Jim
 

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