Field yields 1857-O Half-Dime

Jazdo · Apr 9, 2009

I got out some yesterday to a favorite spot of mine. It was quite windy,and signals were somewhat hard to hear,but warm temps made up for that!

After about 15 minutes I found a washed out area that yielded a horshshoe so not a bad start. I walked along the edge of the field for a while,but the cleansweep was pretty quiet. I decided to cut towards middle area and began seeing some glass shards along with the pottery piece. I picked up a signal with my GSII not very strong but repeatable; I knew it was time to dig. After cutting a big plug I could tell it was out of the hole,but still wasnt very strong so I spread the pile around and"BINGO" there it was.
Later I found the nice glass what appears to be window piece but not sure along with the other items.

A good start to the year! thanks for lookin.

JerV3 · Apr 9, 2009

Man she is a real beauty.

HH Jer

Jazdo · Apr 9, 2009

Thanks Jer.. she has some detail left!

DCMatt · Apr 9, 2009

Nice half dime. A Half dime is on my (long) list of 'hope to find' items. Maybe this season...

DCMatt

drodda777 · Apr 9, 2009

Great find, It's amazing how somthing so small can turn a bad hunting into time well spent.

HH,

Dave

Jazdo · Apr 9, 2009

DCMatt said:
Nice half dime. A Half dime is on my (long) list of 'hope to find' items. Maybe this season...

DCMatt

I know what you mean Matt.. it was on mine for years..

Nick Pappagiorgio said:
Now that puts the RIGHT in RIGHTEOUS ...

Stellar Coin ~ Nick

Thanks Nick

Jazdo · Apr 9, 2009

drodda777 said:
Great find, It's amazing how somthing so small can turn a bad hunting into time well spent.

HH,

Dave

Very tiny things mean alot!

JimBeHuntin' · Apr 9, 2009

Beautiful !!! Congratz on a very nice coin find!

curbdiggercarl57 · Apr 9, 2009

Beautiful condition, me envious!

allen · Apr 9, 2009

congrats on one beautiful coin !!!! :thumbsup:

Wallhangers · Apr 9, 2009

The small circular item is a wind-up key for a pocket watch. I just found one of those myself recently and someone helped ID it here for me. What I have not found yet is a half dime and yours is a fine one!

Jazdo · Apr 9, 2009

JimBeHuntin' said:
Beautiful !!! Congratz on a very nice coin find!

Thanks Jim..

curbdiggercarl57 said:
Beautiful condition, me envious!

The reverse is actually in better shape as far as luster.

allen said:
congrats on one beautiful coin !!!!

Thanks allen

plehbah said:
All of your stuff there is 1850s/early 1860s, including the glass.

The nice decorative aqua piece is part of a scroll flask, and it looks like the bullet might be an Enfield.

The glass sherds look really nice. The glass of that era can be extremely nice.

Thanks plehbah I have found some other color glass also purple,green.

Wallhangers said:
The small circular item is a wind-up key for a pocket watch. I just found one of those myself recently and someone helped ID it here for me. What I have not found yet is a half dime and yours is a fine one!

Thanks Wallhangers I have found a few of them here,but didnt know!