Big silver at 1857 church

[Javadroid]

Spent the weekend in a small town with a church that was founded in 1857 (old by our standards around here for you New Englanders and Old Englanders!). Found a nice 21-S Morgan that has a tough stain on the ear, and a decent 54-D Washington that cleaned up nicely, along with a dented pocket watch cap I thought was nice. I also found 17 clad coins and lots of various debris items. Was hoping to find 19th century coins, but two nice chunks of 20th century silver makes the weekend a winner! Thanks for looking!

 

[Carolina Tom]

Congrats on the Morgan!

 

[Javadroid]

An interesting side note I meant to add... apparently in the 20's to 40's, there was a man in the church that gave kids a silver dollar when they got baptized. I'm thinking (A) this may be one of those dollars some kid lost and (B) I want to go back and see if there might be more.... Just a theory, but I love having information like that to fuel my hunting!

 

[dirtlooter]

pretty darn awesome finds, congrats on the big silver and like the pocket watch cap

 

[Patriot 1776]

Spent the weekend in a small town with a church that was founded in 1857 (old by our standards around here for you New Englanders and Old Englanders!). Found a nice 21-S Morgan that has a tough stain on the ear, and a decent 54-D Washington that cleaned up nicely, along with a dented pocket watch cap I thought was nice. I also found 17 clad coins and lots of various debris items. Was hoping to find 19th century coins, but two nice chunks of 20th century silver makes the weekend a winner! Thanks for looking!

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Great Morgan find, How deep?

 

[Javadroid]

Great Morgan find, How deep?

About five inches.

 

[digging440yrs]

Nice hit !

 

[Gridwalker306]

Definitely don't find those every day! Very nice, and welcome to the club!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Congratualtions on the big silver find!

 

[Silver Saver]

Perty! Very nice detail on that Morgan. Awesome find!

 

[Trezurehunter]

Congrats on that Morgan find. Those are a great coin.

 

[JeffInMass]

Old England or New England, I've lived here forever and NEVER found a silver dollar of any type, so BIG CONGRATS to you!

-- Jeff --

 

[Silvermonkey]

That Morgan is a beauty..seriously drool worthy! Congrats!

 

[pa-dirt_nc-sand]

Man you must have had some great sounding signals!! Still looking for my first silver dollar. Congrats!

 

[Aureus]

Awesome silver!

 

[Kurios1]

Congrats on the HUGE silver! I'd really love a silver dollar but, I think I want my first seated half dime & shield nickel notched off my list first. Oh, and the Flying Eagle penny. Then I want a silver dollar!

 

[against the wind]

Sweet hunt ,,
Congrats on the Silver Dollar

 

[Argentium]

I'm guessing that's not your first dug silver dollar ,since you didn't go ape sh!t in your post . Great find ! If it is your first - welcome to the silver dollar club ( a fairly elite club )

 

[washingtonian]

Well done! Don't see too many of those Morgans popping out of the ground.

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on the huge and medium silver