1892 Silver Columbian Half dollar from Chicago Expo commemorating Christopher ...

[lorraine]

Columbus' 400th Anniversary.

Hi again,

Well, how was I to know that a tornado was headed my way...I've been glued to the U.S Open Tennis matches for many days now.

Sooooooo , when I got to a beach "down the line", I was surprised to have rain and dark clouds greeting me, but I was there to detect so that's what I did while hoping that the rain would subside.

It did subside for a 3 hrs. hunt , but when it got very windy , I headed for the car and home to Tornado warnings on T.V. interrupting the tennis matches.

Hunted wet sand slope and dry sand.

Found a nice big silver Columbian Half Dollar up the beach where the trucks dump out all the scrapings from the beach sand. Yup..sometimes the junk pile holds treasures .

At first I thought it was a Benjamin Half..had never seen ( nor heard of ) the Chicago Expo Columbus coin commemoration. This is the first commemorative coin series minted by the United States.

Here's a link to info about this handsome coin:

Coin Value | Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Half Dollar 1892 and 1893

The silver navel ring with "bling" ( faux) I think was not in the wet sand very long; didn't even need cleaning just had to shake the sand out of it.

Here's some pics

As always, thank you for looking at my post

Lorraine


















Additional pic of previously found silver necklace:

 

[585925]

Always enjoy seeing your finds and reading the subsequent research. The navel ring is actually a "huggie" earring. Looking forward to your future finds!

 

[lorraine]

Thank you very much for the info ,585925.

I never heard of that style earring.


Much appreciated.

Lorraine

 

[Sand Gnat]

Nice finds lorraine! WTG!

 

[Beach Papa]

You are a hunting machine. You done good as ususal. Keep it up. Papa

 

[Jason in Enid]

Congrats on the very cool find! I would be very shocked if it was worth such a small amount. $20 sounds like the scrap silver price.

 

[detectahead]

Great find Lorraine! Love that necklace!

 

[hotrod]

Nice score

 

[lorraine]

Congrats on the very cool find! I would be very shocked if it was worth such a small amount. $20 sounds like the scrap silver price.

I can put a few gallons of gasoline in my car today; I just sold the coin for $30.00

Lorraine

 

[SNF101480]

Awesome finds! The jeweler did a nice job on that chain for you. That Half dollar coin is the first I've seen found in the few years I've been checking out forums. Congratulations!