Foreign Silver - Bucket Lister!

[washingtonian]

Hey folks,

Got out for some afternoon hunting in the sunshine with forum member NoThisIsPatrick and had a lot of fun. We tried some different sites around the city. We didn’t have too much luck (the wheat penny pictured below is from a short hunt last night) but the quality targets I did find were pretty cool.

The first good target of the day for me came from our second site. It’s a sterling silver star ring. Don’t know much about it but I’m pumped to have it.

After striking out at some other sites (not so much as a wheat!) and digging loads of clad I was getting an iffy signal at 4 inches. After some searching it looked like I had a small silver coin. I could tell it was smaller than a dime and figured I had found a Canadian fishscale.

After looking more closely, it turned out to be a 1945-D Ten Centavos from the Philippines. Badass! I’ve always wanted to find a silver, Philippines coin. I found a copper 1 centavo from 1944 earlier this year and my brother found a 1903 S Peso (silver dollar) from the Philippines earlier this year. Definitely thrilled with that unique find. It’s my first non-Canadian foreign silver coin so that was a special treat.




All in all, a fun little multi-silver outing. Good luck out there this weekend everyone!
-W

 

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[Tuberale]

Congratulations on the silver Phillippines Ten Centavos coin. It's amazing what you find in the ground. Thanks for sharing too.

 

[Digger RJ]

Very Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Greastart]

Nice!.....My avatar is a 50 Centavo. Total surprise for me 'cause I got it in Mexico. They're awesome coins! Congrats on yours. May you find Many more!

 

[DirtDigginDan]

That is a tiny little thing, congrats on a two silver day!

 

[RVRoamer74]

Nice find on the 10 Centavos Silver. Cool coin. Congrats!

 

[trdking]

no doubt brought home after the ww2 was over coll find

 

[SD51]

Very cool finds, Congrats W! We're about done here in MI, too cold for me...

 

[washingtonian]

Nice!.....My avatar is a 50 Centavo. Total surprise for me 'cause I got it in Mexico. They're awesome coins! Congrats on yours. May you find Many more!

Thank you, that would be awesome! I’d love to find some of the other denominations too. Hopefully in time. Good luck to you as well!

 

[washingtonian]

Very cool finds, Congrats W! We're about done here in MI, too cold for me...

Sorry to hear that! Despite our lack of much history earlier than the early 1900s, that’s one of the blessings of being in the Seattle area. You can probably hunt 50 weeks a year if you don’t mind the rain and darkness.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Congrats on your silvers, that ring is a sweet find!
Looks like you're onto a site with some age to it.

Dave

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Congrats on the nice finds!

 

[USCGD]

Awesome finds brother!! Wish I could have joined you guys! Congrats on the bucket lister!

 

[jb58]

well done and best of luck to ya Washington!

 

[EdHartzel]

Congratulations Wash!!!!! What a neat coin!!!

 

[Cool Hand Fluke]

Congrats on that silver Philippines coin! One of the advantages of living on the west coast is that we have a better chance of digging those World War II era sliver coins from the Philippines.
These are neat looking coins, all of them minted in the USA with the S, D, or P mint marks.