Holy Cow Big Silver

[RONC(OR)]

After twenty plus years of detecting I finally found a Morgan Dollar. Neil called and told me he was out and that's all it took for me to get my detector and go. Richard was on the phone at the same time so we all met downtown. I really didn't think I would get anymore days to detect this year with the cold weather and rain. I have had a great year and great finds with great friends. what more could I ask for. HH RonC

 

[kimsdad]

She's a real beauty!! Congrats on the extra superb and rare find!!

 

[RONC(OR)]

Wow, Ron!!! That's a coin I have never found!

Beautiful!! I can't imagine you dug that from park turf.....Was that at a demo/scrape?

Major Congrats!!

CAPTN SE
Dan

Dan we were hunting an area that we have hit hard in the past . the Morgan was about 8" deep and sounded like a silver dime . IT was a total surprise Neil watched me dig this one . I scared him when I yelled he thought I had dug up a snake LOL HH

 

[oddcoins]

WOOHOO RON!!! SUPER DUPER FIND THERE! I'm glad I was there to witness you finding it ~ IT WAS VERY EXCITING!!! WOW wow WOW wow WOW wow WOW wow WOW!!!!

You are a great detectorist ~ I'm glad you found it!

8^)

Neil

 

[BuckleBoy]

Great Find! I've only got one to my name after close to 17 years.



-Buck

 

[LabradorBob (Missouri)]

Very nice,Congrats.

 

[Tarheel boys]

That is a nice coin... amazing features, great condition.

Q: You know what I call a find like that?
A: SWEET.

 

[SNOWY]

WTG RonC,
beautiful old ~ big silver !!!

Congratulations...

 

[RLOH]

Way to go Ron. I am still looking for a silver dollar. Was it a hard find? R.L.

 

[seger98]

Awesome find! Hope it doesn't take me 20 years to find one...


Chris

 

[Silver Searcher]

Don't know much about the Morgan Dollar, but it looks like a real good find I wouldn't mind one of those

 

[MikeOregon]

Exceptional find, Ron. Wish I had been there to see it!

The evidence continues to stack up that the e-trac (plus 20 years' experience) is the best thing out there. Your finds speak for themselves.

Way to go!

Merry Christmas,

Mike

 

[hikeinmts]

A very respectable find. I am from Oregon, LaGrande area, where I have done a little detecting. I now live in S. Korea, have a small business, and do a whole lot of detecting. In which city, or close to which city, did you find the dollar, if I may ask? Did you find anything else of value? Not much in the line of silver in S. Korea, except for a few silver coins minted by the Koreans from 1892 to 1910. And I have found a few silver Japanese coins, same time frame.
Well, great find, and good luck in finding many more.
Oh, you mentioned cold and rain. We got/are getting our first snow this year. And following the snow the temperature is to dip into the below-freezing area. Hopefully will still be open enough for me to do a little digging the Saturday after Christmas.....but no promise of that.

 

[whitesPA]

wow very nice find. love them large silver coins

 

[RONC(OR)]

Way to go Ron. I am still looking for a silver dollar. Was it a hard find? R.L.

Ray it sounded like a deep silver dime it was repeatable totaly a surprise HH

A very respectable find. I am from Oregon, LaGrande area, where I have done a little detecting. I now live in S. Korea, have a small business, and do a whole lot of detecting. In which city, or close to which city, did you find the dollar, if I may ask? Did you find anything else of value? Not much in the line of silver in S. Korea, except for a few silver coins minted by the Koreans from 1892 to 1910. And I have found a few silver Japanese coins, same time frame.
Well, great find, and good luck in finding many more.
Oh, you mentioned cold and rain. We got/are getting our first snow this year. And following the snow the temperature is to dip into the below-freezing area. Hopefully will still be open enough for me to do a little digging the Saturday after Christmas.....but no promise of that.

hikeinmts I found it in the old campus area of Eugene I didnt detect for a few hours after finding it . was helping Richard with his SE I did find a 14k back to an earring Whats the oldest coin you have found in Korea? HH

 

[halfdime]

That one's a beauty! I can't believe that rang up as a dime!

 

[RONC(OR)]

That one's a beauty! I can't believe that rang up as a dime!

halfdime I am a sound hunter very rare that I look at the screen mostly for low tones when I hear the sound of silver I know it and it will stop me in my tracks HH

 

[Lowbatts]

Found several of them over the years, all in relatively easy pickins and surely not dropped in their period of minting. I remember one kid I hung out with back then burying lots of them he had from his dad. He'd hide them all around town one at a time in parkways, park playgrounds, etc.. He wasn't right in the head.

So it's way cool when you get one deep that may have been there for a long time. That's one ounce of silver you don't have to go to work for! Nice!

 

[dfx willy]

thats awesome ! havent found one yet. someday mabey. check out the mint mark good there is a o over s error. willy.

 

[hikeinmts]

Hey, good to hear from you so soon.
When in Oregon last, I was living in the Salem area. So, detected some in Salem and around that area. Didn't find anything, to speak of.
My oldest here was a huge Chinese coin, dating about 1040 or so. Have found several other smaller Chinese coins, that age also. None of them worth much, though, because of the condition and how many were made. But, still quite a charge.
My oldest Korean is 1420's. Again, not much to look at, but a biggie for me.
Have found several thousand holed coins, dating from the 1670's onward. (Was led to a spot by a Korean young man about 30 years ago, and identified what kind of site it was, and found out that there are 5,000 or so sites like that in Korea. Most of the modern-day Koreans have forgotten about the sites. So, I and a buddy are pretty free to hunt the sites. And, that we do.)

Have also found a few coins from the States here, in some of the strangest places, until you factor in the War. Then, anywhere is pretty fair game for a Stateside coin.

If you get a chance to get over here, keep me in mind. I do hope that I can have the opportunity of putting a few hunts together and go into some of the beautiful mts (hills, to an Oregonian) here, to put a few 300+ year old coins in some TH'ers hands.

God bless.

 

[Golden1]

That is a very nice find!!!!
Congrats to you

G1