Seated Half - Seated dime - 1867 shield nickel sandwich!

[Scrappy]

I went for a hunt today, and wandered over to the "new" section where I hadn't hunted much. Glad I did

I got a choppy high signal on my CTX at a very shallow depth 3". Thought it was a shoddy clad schwag quarter, but when I dug in I couldn't find the darn thing. Rescan and it's still there. Finally at 7" down I see a coin pile and thought clad again. but then I noticed the big coin and thought hey, maybe this is standing half... look at them Sa'miches! pried 'em apart.

I saw the writing and said Barber Half baby! And then... yeah I wiped it, so what! 1871-S Seated Half!!!

Cleaned up partially, will clean more tomorrow. The shield nickel is a 1867 without rays. back together again!

I'm very excited about this find. Aaaaaand the Seated Half puts me at, drumroll...100 silver coins for the year. Phew!!!

I love this hobby. Happy Hunting everyone!

 

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[Evolution]

That's a heck of a coin spill. Congrats! I love the pic of the half with the nickel imprint on it.

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Congrats! On your 100th silver! Yea! Awesome!

 

[Searchdeep]

It's always a treasure when you get them out of the ground. You can't buy that! great find!!!

 

[Ron (CA)]

Awesome!! Congrats on a cool little coin spill!

 

[SeabeeRon]

One of the best coin spills I have seen posted!!!

 

[Scrappy]

That's a heck of a coin spill. Congrats! I love the pic of the half with the nickel imprint on it.

Thx Evo. The coins were welded together with 130 years of corrosion. I had to pry them apart. An absolutely fun find for me.

 

[cjon455]

Dang, that's incredible, I love all 3 of those coins and to find them at once, and stuck together in a spill?
freakin awesome finds, its stuff like that that keeps the rest of us out there hopin and pluggin

congrats!

 

[Ahab8]

That half is a really nice find bud. Love the coin sandwich man

 

[sutphin]

I say Scrappy Doo you seem to have found some nice coins too!vanzutphen

 

[qaela4]

For some reason I just got hungry for a sa'miche, where can I order one like yours?

 

[Vino]

Big Congrats Steve.
You dont see them coming out everyday.
Is that ur first seated half?
I have never found one yet..
Love the pic of them all together.

 

[Scrappy]

Big Congrats Steve.
You dont see them coming out everyday.
Is that ur first seated half?
I have never found one yet..
Love the pic of them all together.

Definately my first seated half. I got the rest (sans the bust and earlier) but thought this one would always elude me. I lined up all the halves series I've found and they're sitting next to me right now.

Thanks George. Now get your Arse over here and find some stuff!!

 

[cjon455]

Definately my first seated half. I got the rest (sans the bust and earlier) View attachment 1165239 I lined up all the halves series I've found and they're sitting next to me right now.

oh cool, look at 4 coins ill NEVER be fortunate enough to find!

yeah im jealous, lol

 

[Scrappy]

That half is a really nice find bud. Love the coin sandwich man

Thanks Abe. All I wanted to find here was a seated dime. After finding that plus a half at once is more than I could ever ask. Crazy hobby we had huh?!

 

[Old Dude]

What a bummer! No rays eh? Oh well, better luck next time, lol!

 

[deershed]

Epic coin spill, Sweeeet!!

Guess I'm not posting my first ever big silver after seeing this. Lol

 

[Gridwalker306]

Now THAT is a killer spill!!!

 

[Scrappy]

What a bummer! No rays eh? Oh well, better luck next time, lol!

A real bummer. I was so upset there were no rays that I almost threw the other coins in the garbage. Lol. Thx

 

[Ed (Upstate NY)]

That's one heck of a sandwich. Great finds. Congrats....