Sweet!!! Jealous I am . DAMN, JUST 56,000 MINTED!!
Outstanding find ! At 56,000 mintage , this find is easily Banner all day long - very likely a $1000 coin.
Congrats on the low mintage silver.
The photo shows some heavy environmental damage to what could be a XF grade.
The Holy Grail of seated liberty quarters, I found one years ago in Southern Oregon, that makes two out of 56,000. Great find Cal.
Big congrats...
Man that Cal.dirt makes for digging a very detailed coin....The condition is great along with you for saving it.
Congrats !!
Huge congrats on digging that key date coin.
Congrats on the scarce seated quarter
Wow nice you must be very pleased with that coin
Congrats on a great coin find.
Congrats on a classic US silver coin. Super rare at 56000 minted.
Way to go it’s a BEAUTY!
heckuva find - congrats!
.... I can't tell if the coin has damage or not. If not or only minor, it would be an excellent candidate for conservation, certification and grading. I could be wrong but based on what I can see, the coin just might grade VF-30 +/- a few points once the conservation has been completed. ...
..... This suggestion won't be very popular but based on my experience from digging silver coins with that crusty layer on it you would be amazed at how much better it will look if you did a quick zap with electrolysis. A small cell phone charger and tiny alligator clip and let it run for 30 seconds and that crusty layer will fall right off. No rubbing required..... .
That's an incredible dig in the East, let alone Cali? Congrats!
Don't clean it!
...A few of my coins are semi-key dates. So I'm at least trying to redeem them from the ground kiss of that rotten soil. The seated dime I got has a "before "condition" that is very similar (a bit worse) than your quarter. So in a few days, look to see the result. Perhaps your might be worth the conservation. Some method that is SUPER mild (won't clean deep enough to reveal pours).
Personally, I think yours escaped the kiss-of-death underneath that black. It might be just super black patina, that hasn't gone into the integrity of the metal itself . If so, it goes up from the $1k to $2k "as is" estimate, up to $3k or $4k. Maybe not worth the risk though. Judge for yourself after seeing the end results on mine. Since they came from the same exact soil. I'll post within a week or so when mine are done with their bath.
Awesome find!!!!!!! Congrats!!!!!!
You did good.
BIG NOTATION ON THIS: "30 seconds" is right. NO LONGER. That method is way powerful. And it will start to eat right through coins.
I just finished trying that today with one of the seated quarters from our trip (which was 2x more toasty than cal cobra's coin). And .... did it for something like 10 minutes on the electrolysis system (because I was getting impatient with ezest). When I pulled it out after 10 minutes, I could immediately see that was a big mistake. Doh! It was an 1859 quarter, and ... up-to-that-point, I couldn't tell if it had a mint-mark or not. But NOW I'm lucky to even get a date off of it. Aaarrgghh. Oh well, the others are coming along with their slow & grueling ezest rotations.
Congrats...
Hey there Frank, my sentiments too. I've dug thousands of beach silver coins. And .... occasionally , if one is key date, I think "what the heck, I've got nothing to loose". And believe it or not, a few of them (that would have been laughed off the auction block) actually got numismatically redeemable by the time I was done. However, a bunch more ... uh ... didn't.
Bottom line is, despite the common mantra "never clean your coins", there are some cases where .... if done right, do indeed raise the value. It can be a risky move though.
BIG NOTATION ON THIS: "30 seconds" is right. NO LONGER. That method is way powerful. And it will start to eat right through coins.
I just finished trying that today with one of the seated quarters from our trip (which was 2x more toasty than cal cobra's coin). And .... did it for something like 10 minutes on the electrolysis system (because I was getting impatient with ezest). When I pulled it out after 10 minutes, I could immediately see that was a big mistake. Doh! It was an 1859 quarter, and ... up-to-that-point, I couldn't tell if it had a mint-mark or not. But NOW I'm lucky to even get a date off of it. Aaarrgghh. Oh well, the others are coming along with their slow & grueling ezest rotations.