Relic Site Silver

Knottyoak · Jan 25, 2020

I was out in the woods Jan. 4th, enjoying the fact that it was warm enough to be out at all, and detecting the area around a 1880s building site I found on New Year's Day.

I got an oddball signal, and couldn't decide if it was junk or not, so I dug it up and found an 1858 O seated liberty half dollar

It was about 4" deep. Must have been on edge to give a signal like that, I couldn't believe what I was holding and just sat there and stared at it for a while. Sure glad I didn't pass up the crazy signal.

I sure enjoy hunting at that farm, I offered the coin to the property owner in token of my appreciation, but he wouldn't take it.

Some my pics wouldn't load, bummer.

metaladdict · Jan 25, 2020

Knottyoak said:
I was out in the woods Jan. 4th, enjoying the fact that it was warm enough to be out at all, and detecting the area around a 1880s building site I found on New Year's Day.

I got an oddball signal, and couldn't decide if it was junk or not, so I dug it up and found an 1858 O seated liberty half dollar.

It was about 4" deep. Must have been on edge to give a signal like that, I couldn't believe what I was holding and just sat there and stared at it for a while. Sure glad I didn't pass up the crazy signal.

I sure enjoy hunting at that farm, I offered the coin to the property owner in token of my appreciation, but he wouldn't take it.

Threw that pic in just for fun. Thanks for looking, HH!

Ugh pics not working

cellrdwellr · Jan 25, 2020

Wow that coin is really high on my bucket list, big congrats!

waltr · Jan 25, 2020

Nice!

Knottyoak · Jan 25, 2020

cellrdwellr said:
Wow that coin is really high on my bucket list, big congrats!

Thanks, it sure surprised me.

Knottyoak · Jan 25, 2020

waltr said:
Nice!

Thanks!

PrussianBleu · Jan 25, 2020

Wowowow!! That's a beau-tiful Seated Half! That's one that will be hard to top!

metaladdict · Jan 25, 2020

Oh pics working now

sweet coin!

Pumptech · Jan 25, 2020

Congrats on the seated Half! Still on the hunt for one here.

Princess · Jan 25, 2020

That must have been a pretty shocking find! Incredible!

Wolf-Dog · Jan 25, 2020

Congrats on the beautiful 1858-O seated half! :woot:

MichiDigger · Jan 25, 2020

Outstanding!

markinswpa · Jan 25, 2020

Awesome save and a beautiful seated half. Congrats. HH Mark

GroundSweeper · Jan 25, 2020

Amazing coin, super congrats! Hope to find a seated some day....

Tom_in_CA · Jan 25, 2020

The soil was very kind to that seated half. Nice score !

Knottyoak · Jan 25, 2020

PrussianBleu said:
Wowowow!! That's a beau-tiful Seated Half! That's one that will be hard to top!

Thanks! It's my best one yet.

metaladdict said:
Oh pics working now sweet coin!

Thanks!

Pumptech said:
Congrats on the seated Half! Still on the hunt for one here.

Thanks! Yours is out there waiting for you.

Princess said:
That must have been a pretty shocking find! Incredible!

Thanks! I sure wasn't expecting it.

Wolf-Dog said:
Congrats on the beautiful 1858-O seated half!

Thanks!

MichiDigger said:
Outstanding!

Thanks!

markinswpa said:
Awesome save and a beautiful seated half. Congrats. HH Mark

Thanks!

GroundSweeper said:
Amazing coin, super congrats! Hope to find a seated some day....

Thanks!

Mr. Bill T · Jan 26, 2020

Great find!
WOW

normx2 · Jan 26, 2020

Most impressed with your offer to the property owner, that is the secret to retaining permissions, a little thing called trust goes along way.

Knottyoak · Jan 26, 2020

Tom_in_CA said:
The soil was very kind to that seated half. Nice score !

Thanks! The soil there is a mix of eroded granite & rotted leaf litter, must be good for silver. I found a shield nickel in the same type of soil about 200 yd. from there last year and it was so crusty I nearly despaired of ever IDing it.

Mr. Bill T said:
Great find!
WOW

Thanks!

normx2 said:
Most impressed with your offer to the property owner, that is the secret to retaining permissions, a little thing called trust goes along way.

Thanks! It seemed like the right thing to do, and turned out it was. It helped build trust with the owner, and he let me keep the coin. Hopefully both of our karmameter needles jumped a little.

scott1028 · Jan 26, 2020

Detector

What kind of detector an coil was used while finding this beautiful coin!!!

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