My best, and most valuable find!

[ted750]

This is my best find so far in about 5, maybe 6 years of detecting if you count my time with my wretched bounty hunter.... It is a medal from a 1923 New York state - wide essay competition. From what I can research, the series had a gold, silver, and bronze medal, this one being the silver. The medals are hand crafted by Gorham silver co. and has a Gorham hallmark on the rim. The obverse, (the side with the woman) shows an artists rendition of the actress Jane Cowl playing Juliet. The reverse reads "High schools of New York" around the edges, and says "romeo and juliet essay competition - 1923" in the center. The Gold medal is still in a private collection, and the bronze medal recently sold for 1200$ at an auction. I found this in my backyard. Yes, that's right, my back yard. My neighborhood was built in the forties and I was detecting the spot where the construction workers had apparently dumped the excess materials. This medal read a rare "silver dollar" signal on my ace 250, and I dug - and dug, and dug. and finally, after about an hour of hacking through the frozen ground, uncovered a silvered edge.... My first thought was soda can, but i also thought.... SILVER DOLLAR! So, after about 2 hours of digging and hacking I managed to feneagle this beaut out of the ground. I literally screamed, and ran inside to show my Mom. I'm pretty sure I found this in late 06.... All I can say is ---- WOOHOO!!!!

Hope you enjoy,

Ted

 

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[cntrydncr1]

Congrats!! What a great find.

 

[mercenary]

This along with 6 other pieces were sold for over $700 5 years ago. I wonder what the single piece is worth? Great find!
http://historical.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=1080&Lot_No=1625&src=pr#Photo

 

[goldencoin]

Hey, nice to hear from you ted! very nice find there and i hope you get to MD soon

HH
-GC

 

[E59]

That is really cool. Congrats and good job for hanging in there when the digging got tough.

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

That is an amazing find! How deep was it?

Congratulations!!

 

[CRUSADER]

Nice chunk of silver

 

[Mona Lisa]

Yeah...that's a signal many of us would have given up on after hacking for two hours. I would have thought soda can or big hunk-o-iron.

It's gorgeous!!

 

[wyattrr]

Whoa that's nice...congrats

 

[Urban Grund]

That is really cool.

It sure is...