Tiny Seated Silver Pulled from the Purple Field!

[FoxHound0985]

I had a few hours to kill today before I had to head home, so I decided to go to a spot that a buddy and I have hunted to death over the last few years. We usually end up pulling some flat buttons and old brass out of the ground, but it's been a few years since something really great has been found here. I was actually on my first pass through the field, about 20 minutes into my hunt, when I got a nice but choppy signal. It was slightly broken, but was reading in the mid 70s on the Garrett AT Pro. Once I dug the hole, the signal got much better. I picked up a small clump of dirt and waved it over the coil and was greeted with a nice high tone. I looked and saw the reeded rim of a tiny silver coin staring at me! It was hard to stop myself from pulling the coin from it's dirt cocoon, but I restrained myself and got out my camera to film the exciting moment. As I removed the dirt, I could see enough detail to identify the coin as a Seated Liberty. I was sure it had to be a Half Dime. Sure enough, that's exactly what it was! It's from 1853! I believe this makes Half Dime number 6 for me. I've only had the AT Pro for a little over a month, and it has surpassed my expectations! Thanks for looking and HH!

PF

 

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[mikefromIllinois]

Congrats on the half dime and the in situ pictures. Yea it make's you wonder sometimes how you can pull something that small from a field.

 

[alabama11]

Great find. I got an 1854 hd like that last year. What a great day that was. A 92 on the AT pro was the signal. Keep lookin and you may get more coins. Best of luck. Great work.

 

[basque-man]

Very cool!!!

 

[cajamk]

Nice find! I laughed, when watching the video and you added a bit of spit! Good clean up job!

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on the old half dime

 

[Trezurehunter]

Congrats on a great coin. You just cant beat hunting the fields.

 

[dirtdigginfool]

Great Seated!! I'm still in search of my first Seated anything, and just yesterday I was almost positive I had dug one myself..as I was hunting 3 early 1800 home sites in the woods and when I popped my plug, I saw small silver...and given the time frame, I was SURE it had to be Seated..if not Capped..but twas not to be. This was the first time I was ever disappointed to dig a Mercury dime lol...congrats on the Seated! Ddf

 

[FoxHound0985]

Thanks everyone! I am very happy to have pulled that one out of this particular field. Supposedly there was a blacksmith shop on that spot, and we have found a lot of relics from the 1820s to the 1860s there. Here is the other seated silver that was found in that field.

 

[bill from lachine]

Good going on the half dime after 20+ years of detecting managed my first one last summer.....mind you I'm in Canada so not the easiest coin to find in my area.

Small little things aren't they.

Regards + HH

Bill

 

[Relicific]

Nice going on the half dime.

 

[CASPER-2]

 

[IndianaBonesMD]

Very nice find.

 

[terpfan]

Well done. A half dime is still on my bucket list.

 

[against the wind]

Congratulations on the half dime. It's a beauty.
I have only dug one 1/2 dime, and that was recently

 

[treblehunter]

Congrats on that nice sweet Seated.

 

[JerseyDigger19]

That's a beautiful Half Dime! Way to go! I'm dying for a Seated. Jealous!

 

[bill_wabo]

Nice in situ pictures and that dime is beautiful, congrats!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Congratualtions on the nice half dime!

 

[tlh2865]

Congratulations on the seated! Still impatiently waiting to find one myself!