Old silver (Mystery) coin found yesterday Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm........

[vwayne1]

Well, only had 1 hour to hunt last night before taking the girls to see "Hairspray", so I met Oddcoins-Neil at a spot, and I found only 3 coins. Two pennies, and this silver coin. Pretty obviously a foreign coin, but what is it? Date reads something 08'. Any Ideas out there? If it is 1808, this will be one of my earliest dug coins.

 

[aa battery]

Dont know but that poor thing has been around the block a few times 8) AA

 

[Stormtrooper154]

I can see 1808 on the 3rd picture. Congrats on this find in Oregon....Very old coin for this area!

 

[history hunter]

Nice coin!

 

[oddcoins]

WOW ~ that's COOL!!! I knew it was old when you found it ~ now that you've cleaned it up it's looks better! SCORE DUDE!!!!

 

[Baggins]

Sweet find!
Baggins

 

[treasureguy]

wow, nice find, makes you wonder how it ended up where you found it , being from another country . congrats

 

[oddcoins]

This was found in the same field that I found a 1868 Seated Liberty Half dime earlier this year, and a 1887 Indian head cent last July.

I'm pretty sure that it's a 1808 One Franc from France, but I'm not 100% sure.

 

[pitkairn]

hello,

great find

it's a french coin with Napoleon 1er on it.

here's a link for a 2 francs coin

http://ld5.info/Numismatique/Revolution/Im revol/1_empire/Pt Im/Fr 255.jpg

++

pit

 

[Leon]

Beat up, scratched, & dented, still a great find, WTG!!!
Continued Good luck, & Happy hunting~

 

[halfdime]

Very nice! Love those old foreign silvers.

 

[COUNTRY GIRL]

Happy dance! Nice find.

 

[Colonial KirkPA]

It looks French.

 

[CarolinaDigs]

I think it looks great to be 199 years old

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

Looks like a Mixican 8 reales to me! Nice find!

 

[desertfox]

What ever it is its a heck of a find. WTG. Sounds like the place you and oddcoins are hunting is chock full of great old coins. HH

Desertfox

 

[MalteseFalcon]

The only problem is that the Mexican 8 Reales has the date on the obverse. It appears the mystery coin has the date on the reverse. Though I could be seeing things.

 

[Colonial Zoyboy]

As the dude from France said, "It is a French 2 Francs." It is no longer a mystery coin!

 

[Blind.In.Texas]

Nice. Silver is great on any day, regardless of condition. Congrats on the age, too. GL

 

[Colonial KirkPA]

As the dude from France said, "It is a French 2 Francs." It is no longer a mystery coin!

What he said.