Pristine Farm Field 1848 Seated Liberty Dime

Beige · Jun 2, 2026

I started the day off with a long drive to a 1830s lead mining and smelting/fur trade camp. I located the area and immediately found a large musketball. Game on. I managed to find 2 more large musketballs and a handful of scrap lead. I ended up getting chased out of the area by some fiesty cows, but I will be revisiting that site another time. I moved on to a nearby site that had two 1830s homesites side by side that produced only 2 square nails and a clad quarter after about 2 hours of detecting. I decided to move onto another site just north which had 3 homesites side by side. That place was an absolute jungle. I couldnt swing my detector. Defeated, I started heading home. I stopped for some food and picked out one last site that was on my route home. An 1840s tavern which is now a plowed field. I got the permission and headed out there. Five minutes into swinging I got a somewhat scratchy 74 on the Manticore. Dug the hole, scanned it with my pin pointer only to find a tiny nail. I thought my detector was falsing on iron until I got up, scanned the hole again and got a solid 75. Got down and saw the rim of a silver coin! Popped the dirt clump off of it to reveal a BEAUTIFUL 1848 Seated Liberty Dime! I think it was ringing lower because it was on edge (Usually around an 81-84 for a silver dime). This coin must've been dropped not too long after it was minted because WOW. I have a bad habit of seeing a silver rim and instantly grabbing it to see what it is instead of taking a picture of it in the dirt. Anyway, I stayed there for another hour and didnt find anything else but I definitely plan on going back there!

SilverCoinHound · Jun 2, 2026

Nice one. All the driving around was justified at that point. The fakeout with the nail made it that much better. Good thing you scanned it again before calling it a day!

Digger RJ · Jun 2, 2026

Beige said:
I started the day off with a long drive to a 1830s lead mining and smelting/fur trade camp. I located the area and immediately found a large musketball. Game on. I managed to find 2 more large musketballs and a handful of scrap lead. I ended up getting chased out of the area by some fiesty cows, but I will be revisiting that site another time. I moved on to a nearby site that had two 1830s homesites side by side that produced only 2 square nails and a clad quarter after about 2 hours of detecting. I decided to move onto another site just north which had 3 homesites side by side. That place was an absolute jungle. I couldnt swing my detector. Defeated, I started heading home. I stopped for some food and picked out one last site that was on my route home. An 1840s tavern which is now a plowed field. I got the permission and headed out there. Five minutes into swinging I got a somewhat scratchy 74 on the Manticore. Dug the hole, scanned it with my pin pointer only to find a tiny nail. I thought my detector was falsing on iron until I got up, scanned the hole again and got a solid 75. Got down and saw the rim of a silver coin! Popped the dirt clump off of it to reveal a BEAUTIFUL 1848 Seated Liberty Dime! I think it was ringing lower because it was on edge (Usually around an 81-84 for a silver dime). This coin must've been dropped not too long after it was minted because WOW. I have a bad habit of seeing a silver rim and instantly grabbing it to see what it is instead of taking a picture of it in the dirt. Anyway, I stayed there for another hour and didnt find anything else but I definitely plan on going back there!

Awesome!!! Congrats!!!