bravowhiskey
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I made a trip out to the family place over the last few days for a little R&R. Did a little scouting for the upcoming deer season, hunted the creek for artifacts, and swung the coil at the old homesite. ( NW Brown County, Tx.) This is all there is left of it, nothing above ground, but a few things under same...
I search and search each time I'm out there, because on my very first attempt I got real lucky and pulled an old seated liberty dime. I pictured it about 2 months ago. It was an 1876 with a CC mint.
The place has yielded a boat load of shooting remnants, shell casings from .32 cal, .41 cal, .45-70 and even ball shot. All compliments of my wifes' great granddad, who settled the place back when they were still ducking arrows from the previous landlords. Here are a few from this last trip...
I really enjoy finding these links with the past. But I have been real disappointed that there has been no other coinage found. There was virtually no money to be had back then. We have letters from the family, dated to when this place was settled, to attest to this fact. T.J. Smith (wifes' great granddad) corresponded with his step-dad, Mr. E.E. Martin back in Horse Creek Alabama, in Walker County and from kin then in Lumpkin County, Ga. dated to 1870's that go into detail about the scarcity of cash in those early days.
Well, imagine then, how surprised I was, when the SE keyed on a sweet spot not 200 feet from the first and only other coin find. Are you as totally unprepared for this as I was? A second seated liberty dime. Same year and mint mark...twins, if you will.
Here is a pic of the twins reunited after all these many years.
I am still whooping it up. You probably have heard me if you were within a few surrounding states. The second is a little more worn and with a nasty "old gash" but who the heck cares? This is no beauty contest for uncirculated coinage. These have been in the dirt for 133 years.
You could not pay me any price for these. They are mint as far as I'm concerned. I told the wife, "Here, hold what your great granddad, who you never even met, probably had in his pocket many, many years ago." And imagine what his wife Molly had to say when he lost them.
That is what I love about this hobby. Nothing else compares!
Good luck to you,
BW
I search and search each time I'm out there, because on my very first attempt I got real lucky and pulled an old seated liberty dime. I pictured it about 2 months ago. It was an 1876 with a CC mint.
The place has yielded a boat load of shooting remnants, shell casings from .32 cal, .41 cal, .45-70 and even ball shot. All compliments of my wifes' great granddad, who settled the place back when they were still ducking arrows from the previous landlords. Here are a few from this last trip...
I really enjoy finding these links with the past. But I have been real disappointed that there has been no other coinage found. There was virtually no money to be had back then. We have letters from the family, dated to when this place was settled, to attest to this fact. T.J. Smith (wifes' great granddad) corresponded with his step-dad, Mr. E.E. Martin back in Horse Creek Alabama, in Walker County and from kin then in Lumpkin County, Ga. dated to 1870's that go into detail about the scarcity of cash in those early days.
Well, imagine then, how surprised I was, when the SE keyed on a sweet spot not 200 feet from the first and only other coin find. Are you as totally unprepared for this as I was? A second seated liberty dime. Same year and mint mark...twins, if you will.
Here is a pic of the twins reunited after all these many years.
I am still whooping it up. You probably have heard me if you were within a few surrounding states. The second is a little more worn and with a nasty "old gash" but who the heck cares? This is no beauty contest for uncirculated coinage. These have been in the dirt for 133 years.
You could not pay me any price for these. They are mint as far as I'm concerned. I told the wife, "Here, hold what your great granddad, who you never even met, probably had in his pocket many, many years ago." And imagine what his wife Molly had to say when he lost them.
That is what I love about this hobby. Nothing else compares!
Good luck to you,
BW
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