After about a 3 hr hunt at a friends house... its 175 years old...this is all I came up with... expected much more because of the age... I'll be going back though... 1911, 1914 wheaties, a shoe buckle (in excellent shape), and a piece of silver that looks like it came off of some type of jewelry...
Knowing nothing about canadian coins I didn't think it was silver when I found it... I didn't know it was silver until I researched the coin... thats how tarnished it is and I'm having trouble cleaning it up ... soap and water just aren't cutting it.
After hours of unproductive cellar holes in Northern NY... I managed to dig this up at the last cellar hole. 1913 Canadian Silver Quarter in pretty good condition, but badly tarnished. Something about the soil in Northern NY area that does a number on all metals. Hey.. silver is silver :)
I dug this near an old cellar hole in central NY yesterday... I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it laying there in the hole... sorry about the pics I need to get a macro camera, but it is a 1796 Carolus IIII Guatemala minted 2 reale silver piece and it is in excellent shape. I will...