Found My First 20 Cent Piece Today. Plus Some Other Stuff.

[JerV3]

Hey everyone,

Although it's not American I still thought it was a nice find. I haven't been out in the last week. I've been busy and it's been really cold here.

The winds have been like 25 miles per hr. I'm not a sissy but the treasure isn't going anywhere. It's not the 20 cent piece I would have liked to have found. But it still is a new old coin for me.

I don't find to many new old coins. I've found most of them but not all of them. I took my son out today for about 1.5 hrs to some old foundations I've been going over.

Still alot of hits but slow. It's closer to home and I wanted to be home to watch football. Steelers were on at 4:15 and me and my wife play on poles.

I usually don't post my finds until after a few weeks and they build up. But this is a coin I never saw on any forums. So I figured I'd just make a quick post now to show you all.

I got a really nice hit a plus 80 on the dfx. I was assuming a silver dime. It pinpointed at 5 inches. I dug out some dirt checked it. It was still in the hole. Brought the shovel back a few inches and dug down.

I first saw it by it's reeded edge and said what is this. It's the same size as a us nickle. It's also the same thickness. I seen a date of 1944 and I knew it was some kind of centavo. It also has a D mint mark. I've found a few 1 centers from the early 1900's.

But this would be my first 20 cent piece. It was in really ruff shape after rinsing. It was all green and hard dirt packed in it. Not even soap and a tooth brush would get it out.

So I had to clean it. It came out really nice compared to what it was. Something about foreign silver that is cheap. Doesn't hold up as well in the ground.

I also found a nice buckle with gilt left on it. Then I found a really weird eagle button I think. I think it was a Button all bent out to be flat. It's like a oval nickle if you could imagine that.

The back is all rusted like it was apart of something. It's very thin and has lines that run through it. Maybe someone bent a button all out and removed the shank. I also got a 47 nickle.

I got lazy today and was hungry and had a nice coin. So I called it a day. Hope you all like the coin. Thanks for looking.

HH Jer

 

[Brush Creek]

Have not undertaken the cleaning of my one centavo yet.
found it a few weeks ago in my drive way

 

[Nana40]

I'm coming up to hunt with you Jeremy! Have I said that before?

Love the finds! Congrats! Nana

 

[JerV3]

Thanks guys,

Your welcome Lisa. I almost didn't get the chance to do it. My kids love playing with my desk top and moved the scanner god knows where.

I found it after a little while. But I really wanted to rince this one and see what it was. It took me over a hr to clean it it was bad. I needed tooth picks to get the crud out.

I had to work at it so much that it got a few light scratches on it. It was unavoidable due to how bad it was after a rince. Foriegn silver oxidizes funny in the ground.

Nana, Roll on up lol. It seems like so many people want to hunt with me lately. I haven't gotten to actually taking anyone yet.

For me I can always find a keeper or 2. I just worry about someone making a trip and not getting something. I didn't really find to many new sites this yr.

I just worked alot of different sites I already knew of. Luckily there was enough there to keep me hunting for the yr. If I'm asking someone to come hunt with me. I want them to have not good finds to go home with but great finds.

I owe a few people a good hunt here in the future. Just hang in there. Let me find another hot spot.

HH Jer

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Nice finds Jer and I like that 20 Centavo coin, probably silver! HH, Mike

 

[JerV3]

Thanks Mike,

Yeah it is silver. It is the exact same size as a US Nickle. It is also the same thickness. But this coin has a reeded edge like most silver coins do.

Pretty cool coin. Small but nice and heavy. Gives ya a different kind of feal for a coin.

HH Jer