Top ten hardest coins to find under 50 cents seated or later

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Here is what I think are the hardest to find.

Flying Eagle
2 cent
3 cent nickel
3 cent silver
Shield nickel
Seated half dime
Seated dime
Seated 20 cent(impossible)
Seated quarter
Barber quarter

Other than the 20 cent. Which of these three do you have the fewest or none of. For me it is the 3 cent nickel, 3 cent silver and oddly the Barber quarter

 

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[Loco-Digger]

Toasted I agree with your list, but I'd add the silver dollar coins, like the Morgan and the Peace Dollar.

I was lucky when I started this hobby in 2014. My 1st silver was a seated dime . In 2015 I dug a Barber quarter and a few months later a shield nickel and then a 2 cent piece. A couple days later out popped a Peace Dollar. All 5 coins came from different sites. I feel I need to get better mid-tone discipline if I ever plan on digging a trime. I do not dig many mid-tones, unless it has a solid or just a 1 number variance on the VDI.

 

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I feel that any 50 cent or dollar coin is a tough dig Thus whyI said under 50 cent. Most everyone will find a Walker, Ben or Barber half though before they complete my list. I could probably count on one hand the number of tnet memberswho found a 20 cent

 

[Peyton Manning]

I never heard of some of them, let alone find any

 

[Deft Tones]

I've found a few barber quarters but that's it from your list.

 

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I've found a few barber quarters but that's it from your list.

Sorry but Im a spoiled east coast guy. My area was settled as early as 1627. 1700s and 1800s sites everywhere

 

[BigWaveDave]

I got me 2 Barber Q's..... couldn't believe I found them....
My seated dime, was a total fluke. A worn thin wafer of silver, had to have been circulated for up to 75 yrs, before it was lost for another 75.
I'll never find the others....not here.

 

[Peyton Manning]

a shield nickle isn't the same as a v nickle is it? I found a 1907 v nickle this year

 

[smokeythecat]

I have found one flying eagle cent, 1 3 cent silver and two seated dimes. None of the others.

 

[ecmo]

What do I think is the hardest to find? All you have listed + a couple. I have 1 Barber quarter and I found a shield nickel and seated dime on the same day about 18-19 years ago. The dime is so slick it Damn near doesn't count and the nickel was so crusted/toasted you could just barely see the shield. After laying around on my desk for 3 years I lost it or threw it away, dunno. I still look and dream though.

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[flyadive]

I think I have them all except the impossible.
I actually believe if you live on the east coast and hunt often you can achieve some rare coins as well. But they really aren't worth anything because dug coins are mostly toast!

 

[Truth]

a shield nickle isn't the same as a v nickle is it? I found a 1907 v nickle this year

I found a 1909 and a 1898 V this year.


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[Truth]

Sorry but Im a spoiled east coast guy. My area was settled as early as 1627. 1700s and 1800s sites everywhere

Jealous!!!!!!!


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[Truth]

The elusive Seated 20 cent piece

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[Charlie P. (NY)]

Those are all certainly VERY tough. Although I come across Barber Quarters now and then;so I would not rate them as especially hard to find. Unlike the three cent coins they ring loud!

But in my region gold coins seem to be imaginary.

 

[ivan salis]

1838 O half dime ..

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Of those, the only ones I haven't found is the 3c nickel, and the 20c. You're right on the 20c ! Not sure about the east coast, but here in CA I've only ever heard of 1 being found here.

 

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Of those, the only ones I haven't found is the 3c nickel, and the 20c. You're right on the 20c ! Not sure about the east coast, but here in CA I've only ever heard of 1 being found here.

Yeah, other than the 20 cent, the 3 cent nickel is probably the hardest to find. The seated quarter aint easy either but the Barber quarter is probably the easiest yet Ive only found one

 

[TrpnBils]

Off of your list I have a seated dime, barber quarter, and shield nickel.....the seated dime though is the only seated I have ever dug even though I have a lot of coppers that are far older than the seated silvers. What kills me on it though is that literally the only thing I can read on the dime is the date....everything else is absolutely slick! I'd love to find one that I can see the design on. Also the shield nickel was one of the first coins I ever found after getting serious about finding old places to detect. Kind of got spoiled on that one, but I like it because nickels are some of my favorite coins to dig.

 

[BARKER]

Hi; I've found all except the .20C piece. My area is loaded. I think it is only a matter of time. In my opinion, The Standing Liberty .25 is the hardest to find. I get one every few YEARS.!!! i find Washingtons & Barbers but no SLQ's. Go figure. The .3C Silver & Nickel are extremely hard as well. Only one .3C Nickel in 49 years of digging. It came up together with a Seated Quarter PEACE:RONB