A Beautiful 178-Year-Old American Silver

[Kirk PA]

We got out yesterday to a new field. The windchill was around 15 degrees and believe me, it was too cold for comfortable detecting. My hands were numb within the first 10 minutes. Chris had secured permission from the gracious landowner on Saturday and we all had high hopes on hitting some nice coins or relics to end our 2010 year. This was going to be our last hunt due to cold temperatures and frozen ground in the very near future.

Kyle was the first to find the iron patch in this nicely harvested corn field. He was also the first one yelling out a sweet find. I was focusing in the iron when I got a perfectly-locked "Dime" signal. I popped out a beautiful 1832 Capped Bust half dime. I yelled to the guys, "Capped Bust! Half dime!" This is my 2nd Capped Bust half dime (the last one was an 1836 dug in 2007). I am thrilled to the extreme now.

Over the next hour, I continued to dig up some buttons and a Beautiful 1868 2-Cent piece. I also dug what I thought was an Indian Head until I cleaned it up a bit. The front says, "Evans & Allen - Watches & Jewelry - Binghamton NY." The reverse has the words, "Business Card," inside of the wreath. I did a little more research and found this newspaper clipping from January 29, 1863: http://fultonhistory.com/newspaper ... NY Union News 1862-1863 Grayscale - 0178.pdf If you have anymore information on this token, I would appreciate it greatly.

We only detected for two hours, but it was a great end to a fantastic season for me. The PA winter is on it's way.

Keep the passion high!

Kirk

 

[Nate in Ohio]

Nice one Kirk...glad you and the gang had a great season. Pretty cold and snowy up here too but I'm not ready to be done yet as long as the ground is still somewhat diggable.

 

[spitfire55]

 

[Dman]

Awesome finds. Congrats on the half dime.
Dman

 

[Brian(upstateNY-Central Fla.)]

Sweet finds there Kirk

 

[steelheadwill]

Great Coins & token!
Not listed in Richards database,
Great reference site, maybe you can list yours, I've contributed a couple.
great digs to you!
http://tokencatalog.com/index.php

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Congrats on the capped bust! HH, Mike

 

[Kirk PA]

This will be the first farm we hit in the Spring. There has to be some more Colonial dwellings waiting in the fields. We found two so far on the farm.

Kirk

 

[CRUSADER]

one of my fav looking US coins

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

Great finds! Look at the forecast for Saturday 45 Here in the Philly area! Hopefully not much cooler by you. Get in one more hunt!

 

[JerV3]

That's a beautiful old silver man.

Congrats

Jer

 

[BlackX]

And you continue the trait of 2-centers coming out of the ground in great shape! I don't think I've seen one posted that didn't came out of the ground in good shape. (I've only found one so far.) Great finds!
_Rich_

 

[Steve in PA]

And you continue the trait of 2-centers coming out of the ground in great shape! I don't think I've seen one posted that didn't came out of the ground in good shape. (I've only found one so far.) Great finds!
_Rich_

I have also noticed how two cent pieces don't corrode the way Indian Head pennies do, even though both are .950 copper and .050 tin and zinc. Here are three that I've found and they are also in pretty good condition compared to most Indian Heads.

 

[darkwing_66]

nice finds your lucky

 

[jc2]

Congrats on the early American silver . . . still on my list for a field find . . . nice to find Spanish silver but even better when it's an early US.

 

[allen]

that should be at the top soon !!
You got my vote !!