Awesome box! Joined the Seated club

[norcalsteve]

Best box in a long time. The Seated Liberty is in pretty rough shape. Very hard to read the date. I'm pretty sure it is an 1858 s. Whatever the date it is my first SL. So, I am thrilled.
The box gave up.
(1) 1858s SEATED
(1) 1941s WL
(1) 1942 WL
(1) 1943 WL
(2) 1945 WL
(1) 1948 Ben
(1) 1963 Ben
(1) 1964
(1) 1965
(2) 1966
(2) 1967
(2) 1968
(1) 1969
Plus I got back another one of the halves with a sticker on it.

 

[Greastart]

Steve,
You're killin' it! Congrats on that awesome score.

 

[norcalsteve]

Thanks. This was a fun box to go through

 

[Greastart]

I'll bet. Someone on here will be able to tell you how to clean that seated up. Have you posted it in any other forums here?

 

[enamel7]

Welcome to the club!!!!

 

[norcalsteve]

I'll bet. Someone on here will be able to tell you how to clean that seated up. Have you posted it in any other forums here?

Have not posted anywhere else yet.

 

[norcalsteve]

Welcome to the club!!!!

Thanks enamel7. This is one club I did not think I would ever join.

 

[Zomotion]

I had to sit down after seeing this

 

[basque-man]

WOW!!!!!!

 

[fistfulladirt]

Nice box, that seated looks just like it came out of the lake. Electrolysis can remove the crust.

 

[Darth Walker]

Nice. I have never come accrossed a SL,

 

[Avago]

Sweet box! It's amazing what things can end up in boxes.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Awesome man, way to go! I'd flip out just to find a WL.

 

[NEPADIGGER7]

looks like the seated sat at the bottom of the ocean for a while...but hey...its still seated and congrats!

 

[norcalsteve]

This coin looks like it has been through quite a bit. I think I am going to leave it just the way I found it.
The really cool thing about this half is that 1858 is the year my Great-Great-Great (I think that's right) grand parents arrived in San Francisco. They went through the gold rush in Grass Valley (They owned a supply store there) lost it in a poker game that was run in the back room. Moved to S.F. in 1858. My relative could have been the first person to possess this half. It will go on to one of my children.

 

[TheMastermind]

Awesome! Congrats on the great box!

 

[Yinzi50]

Welcome to the club! Nice box!
By the way, can you weigh the seated to
make sure it's not a cast modern copy?
I found a cast Barber half.

 

[Dozer D]

It's always a fun thing to find a piece of old U S HISTORY. Makes one begin to wonder, who may have touched it, where in the world it may have traveled, etc., wouldn't it be nice to see if a DNA analysis could be done on a coin that old. A lot of my old coins make me think of things like that mentioned. Congrats on your relic find.

 

[CW3(ret) US Army]

Best box in a long time. The Seated Liberty is in pretty rough shape. Very hard to read the date. I'm pretty sure it is an 1858 s. Whatever the date it is my first SL. So, I am thrilled.
The box gave up.
(1) 1858s SEATED
(1) 1941s WL
(1) 1942 WL
(1) 1943 WL
(2) 1945 WL
(1) 1948 Ben
(1) 1963 Ben
(1) 1964
(1) 1965
(2) 1966
(2) 1967
(2) 1968
(1) 1969
Plus I got back another one of the halves with a sticker on it.

Even thought it's in bad condition, Great Find Steve. Congrats! My best oldest find so far in a box was a 1893 Columbian commemorative & oldest regular half was a1908 Barber. The Seated Liberty club is still 1 I'm waiting to join. That would have been a great box even without the Seated Liberty.
HH
Gary

 

[norcalsteve]

Even thought it's in bad condition, Great Find Steve. Congrats! My best oldest find so far in a box was a 1893 Columbian commemorative & oldest regular half was a1908 Barber. The Seated Liberty club is still 1 I'm waiting to join. That would have been a great box even without the Seated Liberty.
HH
Gary

Thanks Gary, I was also pretty happy to find the 1948 Ben. Its in real good shape. Still looking for the 1955.