Oldest Coin I Have Found in SW Florida

baywalker · Mar 8, 2012

Several weeks ago stevemc and I checked out an old ferry boat landing on a real low, negative tide. It had been in use in the 1890's. Found a lot of brass nuts, bolts, screws valves and boat related hardware. Also a hand forged light yellow brass bell(?) and a very toasted 1908 Barber Quarter and a Mercury dime that I can't see a date on.

Thanks for looking
Jonnie

petersra · Mar 8, 2012

Some nice old stuff you got there. Who knows what you might find at that beach..... Hit it again. HH, RAlph

Les West Central Fl · Mar 8, 2012

Oldies are goodies. May have some other stuff burried there.

hamiddetecting · Mar 9, 2012

Can you return there, you get good target. I wish you luck. :icon_pirat:

seeker41 · Mar 9, 2012

cool finds, great spot!

stevemc · Mar 9, 2012

Yes, that was an old site. Jonnie is a pro at finding this old stuff. Here is a pic of the stuff I found, (I was using a 15" coil and it was real trashy-hard to get less than 2 things at once in that coil there.) Lots of iron. I only dug non-ferrous. I should have dug the iron out to get at the non-ferrous stuff. We found lots of big iron stuff, and I found a 40+ year old Busch beer can that was used as a 22 caliber target. The things I found were these square lead things, that had iron rust on the center hole. Maybe a roofing nail with a lead washer? Some other worn copper pieces and a piece of brass pipe thread. This is after it was tumbled. There is the round thing that is like a bead, and it appears to be lead with a ceramic coating. There is also another metal thing that is not lead and not iron. Maybe silver. There was a lot of big iron things that we will have to move out of the way, and I am sure there will be other artifacts there. I will be using my 8" coil then! There was some other stuff I found, but nothing good. or old. Fishing weights, airplane parts, pull tabs, etc. Jonnie found some cool, old stuff!