Capped Bust half dollar!

[GatorBoy]

First Silver coin with my new Garrett.
The crust popped off of both sides leaving perfect negatives.

 

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[WHADIFIND]

Hey Gator, I was with you from the first post and my response. I knew that yeah it was possible to be a counterfeit but ONLY if they had gone to all the trouble of using silver to make it!!! LOL

Way back when I started I used to do a lot of water hunting. I KNOW that black/sand/oxide crust VERY well!
I might have piped up but the "experts" were doing soooooo well, I just figured I'd watch and see how much rope they needed. LOL

Great find! But, since I like coins, I'd rather not find them in saltwater.

HH!

 

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[hogge]

Hey Gator, I was with you from the first post and my response. I knew that yeah it was possible to be a counterfeit but ONLY if they had gone to all the trouble of using silver to make it!!! LOL

Way back when I started I used to do a lot of water hunting. I KNOW that black/sand/oxide crust VERY well!
I might have piped up but the "experts" were doing soooooo well, I just figured I'd watch and see how much rope they needed. LOL

Great find! But, since I like coins, I'd rather not find them in saltwater.

HH!

OH! I see......I guess the fishing reel was letting an awful lot of "drag" out before the hook was set.

 

[WHADIFIND]

OH! I see......I guess the fishing reel was letting an awful lot of "drag" out before the hook was set.

OH NO! Don't be pulling on the one who's doing the leg pullage! LOL

It is why I don't water hunt much anymore though. Coins are my thing.

HH!

 

[GatorBoy]

LOL.

 

[Tnmountains]

Treasure is where you find it. I think everyone was just trying to help and nobody has any hard feelings. Nice fish.

 

[GatorBoy]

No...
I don't have any feelings...I mean hard feelings :-)
Well..here's the beat up old girl.
I wish the coins from this spot held up like the pewter buttons.

 

[John_Deere]

Sweet find! Congrats and HH!

 

[GatorBoy]

Major problems with smartphone app. Trying to load photos..

 

[recondigger]

Wow that almost looks like its made out of silver! ... Just kidding I really like it once again good going

Scouts out!

 

[GatorBoy]

 

[lonegunlawyer]

Real or contemporary counterfeit, it's still a cool find.

 

[GatorBoy]

There's an excellent chance it's a contemporary (meaning "from the 19th century era") counterfeit. It just does not look like it's made of silver. What it could be is German Silver, an alloy of copper/nickel/zinc that might corrode this way. Many of these counterfeit coins circulated in the 1840s-1860s, and I suspect a lot of them were chucked into a local river when the owner discovered they were bogus.

Years later I end up back here downloading the images to share with someone else just want to reiterate this was absolutely not a counterfeit it was Second Seminole War payroll it was a saltwater find

 

[A2coins]

well done really cool finds

 

[RelicMaster777]

oh yeah that salt water and sand combo really does a job on silver coins. I'm surprised that thing came out even recognizable. Here is some silver I pulled out of my beach last week and they were only buried 50 to 70 years

Standing Liberty Q


Washington Q


Silver dimes


Silver Rings


Anyway a very cool find Capped Bust Half....Congrats

 

[sliverslave]

Nice

 

[Truth]

GatorBoy that sucka is gorgeous!!!! I’m glad you cleared up any doubt. Lol