Oldest and smallest silver coin 1845

[tapoutade]

Found this today. Its a 1845 one and half pence. I think its sterlin silver and hate to admit but i think i cut the side bit whilst digging it. Very careless, ive been doing detecting for a few years now and this is the first time ive damage a find. I had to research this coin as i had no idea it existed untill today. Still dont know a whole lot so any info would be great. Thanks for checking it out, ade

 

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[worldtalker]

ade, Nice find man!! I seriously doubt you cut that coin,unless you have the other piece. God Bless Chris

 

[Mackaydon]

Excellent find !
Looks like 1843; if so:
Recorded mintage: 475,000.
Specification: 0.70 g, .925 fine silver, .021 troy oz ASW.
Catalog reference: KM 731.1.
Don.......

 

[hamiddetecting]

Nice haul!

 

[lost hunter]

Sweet

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[BaronH]

Very cool find, Im jealous.

 

[tapoutade]

Cheers guys, im very pleased with my find today. I also got a 1897 have penny today but its completely toasted

 

[WHADIFIND]

Boy! You must've been listening VERY closely!

Nice!

HH!

 

[cntrydncr1]

nice little coin! congrats

 

[tapoutade]

I dug a large penny signal about 7 inches and found half a can, when i rechecked the hole i was getting a decent signal and this was just in the wall of my plug

 

[oxbowbarefoot]

Very nice. Small silver, big silver, all silver is good silver! (especially old silver )

 

[oldsoapy]

Found this today. Its a 1845 one and half pence. I think its sterlin silver and hate to admit but i think i cut the side bit whilst digging it. Very careless, ive been doing detecting for a few years now and this is the first time ive damage a find. I had to research this coin as i had no idea it existed untill today. Still dont know a whole lot so any info would be great. Thanks for checking it out, ade

What you have is a silver three half pence struck for use in the colonies , very often they were mounted as jewelery and appear "nibbled where they were soldered" see the link. Hutch.
Victorianmilledsilver colonial three halfpence -

 

[coinhound]

Super find there big guy. Just big enought to get the old ticker a pumping!! I agree with Worldtalker, I don't see where you damaged this piece.

Coinhound

 

[Argentium]

That is a fascinating find ! I don't believe I have ever seen another one posted in my years on this forum ! I'm curious to know if
our UK friends find these occasionally ? Argentium. (I also have a thing for Vickie silvers !!!)

 

[tapoutade]

It looks like there is a small peice clipped off the edge.i really hope it wasnt me. I did not even know this coin existed till i found this but apparently not to rare. After doing a bit of looking there is quite a few around. Not that valueble either, still a cool first find for me

 

[oldsalty19]

 

[detectahead]

You didn't do that, somebody else did! Lol! Super find!