sweet silver !!

allen · Dec 24, 2009

Me and my 12 year old detected an older
home close to where I lived in Bagdad and
didnt find alot, but something id only found
two of ever, popped up out of one of my plugs,
a 1879 "O" mint Morgan dollar !!!
It was about 7 or so inches deep and turned out
pretty nice for a 130 year old coin :headbang:

Found several clad coins and a 1950 wheatie also.

allen · Dec 27, 2009

Hes fascinated with detecting as long as we are
finding something, but as soon as the goodies
quit coming, he gets really bored.
I was planning on hitting this house again this
morning, but ended up working for another of
the older maintenence personell.

Imnengr · Dec 27, 2009

Great find, Allen, what a beautiful piece of silver. I keep telling my 12 year old son, keep swinging the ACE 250, those big silvers are out there and they CAN be found with a $200 detector! Thanks for the proof! (You did find it with the ACE, right.....

?......)

PA John · Dec 27, 2009

Very Nice! My luck I would have clobbered it with my digger!
Great Shape!

Congratulations!

allen · Dec 27, 2009

Yup it was the ace 250,
the signal kept bouncing from
half to dollar which is normally
my luck a beer can.
But the family who owns this
house never drinks alcohol, so
I decided to dig the signal.
Im glad I did !! :thumbsup:

peanut · Dec 27, 2009

Man that is sweet, makes you wonder how those big coins got lost. :thumbsup:

Nana40 · Dec 27, 2009

OHHH..she's purdy, Allen!! Congratulations on a fantastic find!!! :icon_pirat:

Nana

gleaner1 · Dec 28, 2009

Allen, nice to see a cartwheel found by a true gentleman. Your boy's eyes must have looked like two of 'em!

allen · Dec 28, 2009

Not sure about his eyes, but I know mine lit up like light bulbs !! :thumbsup:

Thank you all for the wonderful comments !! :icon_sunny:

Frodov · Dec 28, 2009

Cool finds there my friend! Who wouldn't be happy finding a nice big ol' silver Morgan Dollar

Wow! I'm jealous! <grin> Hope you had a very merry Christmas, and wish you a very Happy New Year!

~HAPPY HUNTING~

Frodov

hogge · Dec 28, 2009

Nice one Allen! Congrats......Hogge :headbang:

daytondigger · Dec 28, 2009

Nice find Allen!! I've tried for over 30 years to find a "silver" dollar. I dug an Ike several years ago and was amazed to see that large coin in the hole. I can't imagine if it had been silver how I would have reacted.

cdltpx · Dec 28, 2009

I was at a yard sale one day and saw a trophy that had a coin in it well we put it back and went on to other ysales we decided to bounce back to the one that had the trophy. I looked at the coin and saw in god we trust and said this had to be a us coin so I paid the quarter for the trophy and took it home cut it open it was A Morgan silver dollar probably bought for scrap silver and placed in the trophy advertising for a scrap salvage company. Imagine that I was able to buy a dollar for a quarter. Better yet it was a silver dollar so what ever grams of silver was in it was the real value.