Tiny forest silver – 1843! 🔥

[Kunal22]

Tiny forest silver – 1843! 🔥

Absolutely buzzing with this one!

Pulled this tiny coin (~1.2 cm) from the forest — turned out to be an 1843 British Silver Three-Halfpence (1½ pence) 😮

Over 180 years old and still in great shape for its size… amazing how these small targets survive all that time.
The Manticore didn’t miss it 👌

Recovered with the Minelab Manticore + MI-6 pinpointer.

Small coin… big history!

 

[pepperj]

The young Vickie is still nice and crisp, congrats on the recovery.

 

[Red-Coat]

Interesting find. Although there is some evidence that these coins circulated in Britain in small numbers, they were intended for colonial use, primarily in Ceylon (now Sri-Lanka) and the West Indies (Jamaica, British Guiana and Trinidad). The value was aligned to other locally-circulating coins: 1 fanam in Ceylon (also equivalent to Netherlands 4 stuivers); and ¼ of the Spanish real in the West Indies.

 

[jewelerguy]

I have one of those that I someone gave me years ago. They are indeed very tiny. Smaller than a US half dime. Cool find!

 

[oldmxrat]

That's a sweet little coin, congrats!

 

[cudamark]

In which country was it found?

 

[ArfieBoy]

Very cool coin! Congratulations!

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

A fantastic find - congrats !

 

[Kunal22]

In which country was it found?

A small Island country near India and Sri Lanka.

 

[Relicific]

That’s a coin you don’t see too often. Congratulations.

 

[Silvermonkey]

Wow! That is a very lovely ( and tiny) silver coin. Congratulations on a great find!

 

[Trezurehunter]

Nice job on that excellent old silver.