1890 O Morgan Dollar dug today!

Kray Gelder

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Big heavy silver sure is nice! This year it's been difficult getting out. Refurbishing our house since January. I have detected less than a half dozen times. Today I went to a new park for me, and not ten steps in a great tone, and solid 91-92 on the F75. Had to be good! Of course, it was tight up against the underside of a root about 4 inches down, and I had no idea what I had until the hard packed clayey sand was chiseled out.

Here's a couple pics with her on top of the root. NCM_0204.JPG NCM_0202.JPG

A better couple of shots with the coin rinsed off, then after soaking in boiling water and baking soda ( 6 cycles ). IMG_3549.JPG IMG_3550.JPG IMG_3561.JPG IMG_3563.JPG IMG_3564.JPG

She's in real good shape for her age.

A couple of weeks after we moved in, I managed to get a couple hours detecting around our house for the first time, and found this ( plus clad, of course, and trash, through a carpet of iron ). A "Holed" 1943 Australian Florin. Go figure. From what I found, these were .925 silver! The equivalent of about .30 to .35 cents U.S. at the time. IMG_3555.JPG IMG_3557.JPG

And last, a short trip to another park a couple months ago gave the usual clad, trash, and a couple of silver rings. IMG_3558.JPG

Those are my finds worth showing for the year so far, plus about 10 bucks in clad.

Thanks for looking.
 

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digging440yrs

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BLK HOLE

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Congratulations on the big silver!!
 

glenn37216

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W00t ! All beautiful finds. That f75's loves silver...:laughing7:
 

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Kray Gelder

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Thanks y'all. Yeah, Truth, this was my first. Quite a thrill.
 

WHADIFIND

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HEY!!! That's Blingie's ID bracelet!!! LOL!

Great finds!!
 

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Kray Gelder

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Yeah all, after finding that Florin, which I had never heard of, of course I was surfing, trying to learn something. All the examples I could find pics of, had holes in them! I'm thinking a lot of GI's came back from the South Pacific with these useless ( in the US ) coins, so made pendants, key fobs, and do-dads out of them. They are .925 silver, after all.
 

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Sweet work !! Nice silver, congrats !!
 

Carolina Tom

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Congrats on the sweet finds. That Morgan dollar is the real deal. Wow. I would so love to find one.
 

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Awesome silver. You must have the F75 tuned just right. Congratulations.
 

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