First seated and its a half dime!

[rsilva02667]

First seated and it's a half dime!

Hit the beach on this windy morning on cape cod with a friend. The first spot we went to is a spot that weve done well at in the past and I was happy enough digging a silver Roosevelt dime, but we were right in the wind so we decided to move spots. My buddy knew of a small beach a couple towns over that I had never been to before that was going to be out of the wind so we headed there, and I'm glad we did! There was lots of signals at first but I wasn't finding any coins. Then I found it! I didn't know exactly what I had but I knew it was a small silver coin so I ran over to my buddy who has a lot more experience than I do and handed him the coin to ID it. Seated half dime!!! I was ecstatic! My oldest silver before this was a 1908 D barber dime and I just jumped right to a seated half dime!

Also found some lead and a couple flat buttons

 

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[rsilva02667]

Sorry for the screen shot

 

[dirtlooter]

congrats on the half dime, awesome find

 

[park pirate]

Nice one..

 

[Metal Illness]

Way to score for your First Seated coin. I recently found my first, a field find, gouged and bent 1876s Dime. Still high on my wish list. Big Congrats!!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Very nice silver dime!

 

[rsilva02667]

Unfortunately I'm not going to be able to get a date off of it but it does have stars on the obverse so that puts it from 1838-59 making it my oldest coin!

 

[Cool Hand Fluke]

Very cool, do you remember what kind of meter reading it was? All my HD's have come up zinc....Nice find!

 

[BigWaveDave]

Outstanding!!! Take comfort that if I had not moved to FL in 1996, that you never would have found that!!I would have had that puppy in my collection years ago Great job by you....go Pats!

 

[MackDog]

Congrats dude. My best silver last year was a 1847 seated half dime, took club honors for the year

 

[Nepa-Will]

Congrats! Great save

 

[pong12211]

Nice finds. Congrats on the seated dime and thanks for sharing.

 

[rsilva02667]

Thanks guys! I don't remember what the vdi was. Go pats!

 

[treblehunter]

Cool, I'm jelly ,lol

 

[Sooper Dave]

Congrats on your first Seated! And those half dimes are tough to come by!

 

[I-DIG-IT]

Nice digs.