1826 Capped Bust Half Dollar Found: 8-24-2008

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born in 3 sisters, tx. now living west of tilden
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X-Terra70, X-Terra 50, Ace250, Ace150, GTI 1500,GTA 1000 Ultra, Tejon, Vaquero
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South West Texas produces some BIG SILVER

I woke up this morning and said hec its not raining so i turned on
the computer and check the Radar to see if there was any thing
showing up on it which is part of my daily routine, so i saw nothing
in the forcast so i decided to get out today @ a old house that has
produced a couple Nickels and several Wheaties and went over
there too hunt.

1st target was a 1951-D Wheatie then nothing except dang trash
for way over a hour and one half then hit my second target
anouther Wheatie 1955 then about 2' over i got an over load signal
so i lifted the coil to see what it could possibly be and it had tobe
some kinda Iron target that was close to the top of the ground so
I went back too hunting & diggin more trash up pulltabs, s-caps
and some can-slaw, then i decided to head towards the back side
of the old house where ive found the best finds at the house. I
decided to work right next too that old porch since ive never
checked it out, keep diggin up more dang junk then right @ the end
of the porch BANG that X-TERRA 70 went to squaking really LOUD
so i kneeled down and cut a U shaped plug and opened it up &
rechecked the target location the machine gave me a VDI of 46 @
7-8" deep
so i started to dig & used my gold scoop to remove the
dirt onto my towel, only dug on the outsides to make shure i did
not mess what ever was in there, i scanned every scoop of dirt
w/ the coil till i found it and out popped a 1826 .50¢ BUST Half
Dollar
i got up & started too jump around after i ran it under
some water from the truck yelling out
YeaaaaaHawwww.jpg

but still @ 4" deep the dirt was still like concrete.

1826-Bust Hald Dollar-100.webp
huntingsite101-old house.webp
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DAVE
 

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I don't know what I can say that hasn't already been said, but that is one SUPERB coin. WTG! :thumbsup:

Congrats on the BANNER!

Keep digging!
 

Congratulations on the find and the banner. What a day you had.!!!!
 

Nice coin there Dave, those Xterras are nice machines. BTW, you forgot to put down the coordinates on that old house......ha ha
 

Forgot to mention before that the old house looks really spooky but could produce a lot more.
 

Wow and congrats, what a beauty!
 

omg...Dave that is great!! Congrats. I haven't seen one of those pulled out from down here yet, truly amazing. Glad to see it on the banner.
Those folks up north don't know how little we see coins like that in our area. Heck that was before Texas became a state infact this part of Texas was still under Mexico. Dang Nice Find
 

Mr. Dave, I've been away from T-net for a while. Sorry to be late in congratulating you on this super coin. First place I went to get somewhat caught up was the banner--which is right where this beauty belongs.

You have exceeded my Approximate Dream Coin by 25c--except we need to scale that for inflation over, um, let's see, 182 years? I mean since I won't find an 1823/2 Liberty Cap quarter, I just dream about any 1820's / 1830's quarter. And you dug up a Half that has more detail than most coins of this design.

I'm off to look it up on a coin site. I know you're probably *still* having a bunch of fun with this fantastic find (and keep it up). Thanks for posting about it.
 

that is unreal i cant stop looking at it. great find congrats. willy.
 

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