Looking for friends lost wedding band but found a shocking first !!

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Hello all,

I was at a big cook out/barbecue and a friend had lost his wedding band. I said I would find it.... Lost in the mud at the time the hay and mud that was put down was pushed around by a bulldozer. I was looking for his lost wedding band we were looking around for about 1 hr and not finding his ring. Hopes are getting less and got I get a good signal in the silver dime range right in the road. I thought not likely a big tungsten band but maybe. So I dig it up and my friend and his wife are watching me. I'm holding it my hand I think it can't be anything good that small. Likely a piece of a pulltab.... :P I wipe away some dirt and it whipped clean like silver. Then it hit me, is this a seated half dime... I say to my friends, it is omg its a half dime from the 1800's. We all are like Holy crap !! Its in good shape and has some detail. However it has some black tone on it but that's ok. I have found my first Silver Seated Half Dime turned out to be 1850 !! This also ends a long drought of silver... Maybe my oldest coin to date too.

WHOOO HOOOO !!!
Here are some pictures !!

Keep @ it and HH!!

 

[creeper71]

is that a mint mark under the bow or just dirt?

 

[maddog]

WTG- That's one nice coin. Congrats.

 

[kakcsdad]

awseome find!!!

 

[daleshark]

Nice find . Hopefully that ring will pop up some day.
Happy Hunting.
daleshark.

 

[mpostma]

Congrats!
What a sweet find!

Nicely done! Good Karma from hunting for your friend's ring?

Good Luck!
Mark

 

[whitesPA]

a real beauty

 

[BuckleBoy]

Karma is a Beautiful thing.


Cheers,



Buckles

 

[Ray in CA]

That is one beautiful little coin!! I'd trade all my Mercs and Barber dimes just to find one of them. Congrats!

Ray

 

[Brian(upstateNY-Central Fla.)]

congrats on the surprise nice find

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Thanks some more,

I am going to go back out there again. I hope to find the ring still and some more silver coins, maybe some more firsts. The first thing I thought was this must be good Karma for looking for his ring. Who knows where the coin came from. Could have been from some fill dirt or maybe a modern drop. The building on the land is not known to be that old. Of coarse land is as old as the earth and anyone could have been through at any time and dropped it. What do you think?? Oh I wanted to give people who may not know how big these are an idea of how small they are. Here is a comparison photo with a modern clad dime.

Keep @ It and HH!!

 

[Big A]

Awesome find. I'd keep looking for that wedding band.