FreeBirdTim
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- Sep 24, 2013
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Went to a baseball field built in the early 1990's today. I've done it a few times, but never found any old coins, except for a few wheaties. But I have found a lot of clad and a few silver rings there, so I gave it another shot. Glad I did!
After about an hour of detecting, I had around three bucks in clad. Got a 76 signal that was reading 10 inches down. Kind of deep for a zincoln Lincoln, but that's what I was expecting to unearth. At about 9 inches down, I saw something shiny! Pulled it out of the hole and there was a very tiny seated Lady Liberty staring up at me! Totally shocked to find an 1853 seated half dime at this field!
Looks to be in pretty good shape. Just glad it hasn't been holed. So many silvers from the 1800's are holed, so I dodged a bullet on that one. Unfortunately, it's the most common seated half dime, with a mintage of 13 million. Oh well!
This coin beats my oldest US silver coin by 44 years. I found an 1897 Barber dime a couple of years ago and that was my record holder. I liked finding that Barber dime, but this coin is so cool! Never saw one before, so I didn't realize how small they really are.
Here's a few pics:
After about an hour of detecting, I had around three bucks in clad. Got a 76 signal that was reading 10 inches down. Kind of deep for a zincoln Lincoln, but that's what I was expecting to unearth. At about 9 inches down, I saw something shiny! Pulled it out of the hole and there was a very tiny seated Lady Liberty staring up at me! Totally shocked to find an 1853 seated half dime at this field!
Looks to be in pretty good shape. Just glad it hasn't been holed. So many silvers from the 1800's are holed, so I dodged a bullet on that one. Unfortunately, it's the most common seated half dime, with a mintage of 13 million. Oh well!
This coin beats my oldest US silver coin by 44 years. I found an 1897 Barber dime a couple of years ago and that was my record holder. I liked finding that Barber dime, but this coin is so cool! Never saw one before, so I didn't realize how small they really are.
Here's a few pics:
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