The Abe Lincoln Tribute Mining Company 1854 seated dime

[tinpan]

Hi all, Due to the sudden change in the weather today.Heavy rain . Well after work over the past few weeks i have doing a little hunting after work. just an hour here and there.The site was known as the New Chum Quartz Reef. The reef is located half way between home and work.Most the the old mine lines and mines are long gone but the sites are no used for anything.Considered unstable ground .

Well i found this small silver coin, very bad way. By the coin size seemed to small to a 6 pence and little big to be a 3 pence.Tried to clean using a brush and water and got no where.I know i shouldn,t clean coins with chemials but i did.Only way.

I knew therer was quite a few hundred 49-ers in the first rush on the New Chum but i quickly found out at the start of the hard rock mining that Americans did infact own mines in this spot too.After a asking a few local people who are in the KNow i got the use of the document of a mine share and pic of the site circa 1860'c

So i do have at last a 49ers coin even tho its hardly a treasure find but a great piece of history.

Seated dime 1854

tinpan

 

[silvercop]

 

[garthbfan169]

Sweet coin WTG tinpan!!!

 

[spartacus53]

Nice find. Where there is one, there will be more for sure. HH

 

[DANGLANGLEY]

Lol, I've been looking for one of those for over 33 years... I guess I've been lookin on the wrong continent... Congratulations, very nice find...

DANGLANGLEY

 

[allen]

wtg on the sweet silver Tinpan !!

 

[Tank69]

wtg

 

[tinpan]

Lol, I've been looking for one of those for over 33 years... I guess I've been lookin on the wrong continent... Congratulations, very nice find...

DANGLANGLEY

Thanks Danglangley thinking a little big with the word continent. Much simpler Who ,why when and where and for what reason.Here a painting of the government camp and camped miners at the gold rush of Avoca circa early 1850's.Note the second flag in the picture.I know this site is located in the old gold area in the state forrest today.Thats only 50 miles from me.With a large american flag would mean large number of 49ers.The rest is reseach and names of places of gullies like California,Yankee hill is a good way of finding exact sites.

tinpan

 

[treasurefiend]

Great find for sure!!!!

 

[crazyjarhead]

How did that get there Strange?? Maybe not. Looks like it was in circulation for a long time.

 

[artzstuff1]

Boy,,,,, not much into reclaiming are they ,,,,,What a shame!!!!! waste lands as far as you can see!!!! nice finds though,,,


arthur

 

[tinpan]

How did that get there Strange?? Maybe not. Looks like it was in circulation for a long time.

hi crazyjar Ever hear of "Proclaimation Coinage" Which has been used by 5 colonies 7 times in the past 200 years. 1815 first time mostly between 1850-62 then again during WW2. Silver and gold coins from other countries was deemed usable as local coinage based on weight.This done in times of lack of local coinage.This includes many different countries. Some had their own made in form of tradesmans tokens.

tinpan