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Found my oldest silver coin in Ohio trip! (202 years old!!!)
So, as I said in another post the other day, me and my dad went on a little Ohio trip for a day, and I did a bit of research to find some old parks and towns in general. I managed to find a town with a reaaaaallllly old park, the town was founded in the 1820s i beleive, and this town square was the public square since the beginning of the town. On our way to Ohio, I told my dad i had a feeling it was gonna be a good day for at least one of us, and i also said i was hoping to find my new oldest silver coin. We hit a park that i found, and found NOTHING, so we moved on to a town about 2 miles north. I made the decision that at these old parks i was going to dig every signal i got. We pull up to the park, and they're starting to set up for a farmer's market, so we knew we couldn't be there toooooo long. After about 5 or 10 minutes tops, i get a solid 12-18 signal down about 5 inches. I dig the hole, and pull out a small dirty coin, and after a bit of rubbing it looks a little silver, but my dad and I weren't too sure if it was even a coin, but i had a feeling it was something kind of old. After a bit of cleaning and a bit of research, I find out it is an 1815 25 Centime from Haiti! My previous oldest silver was probably 1870s i believe, and I topped that by quite a bit! Here are some pictures of the coin before and after cleaning, and what it looks like undug.
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Sorry if these images look bad, i'm not too sure how to attach the images like I see people do on the forum lol, they just end up like this, i will try to see if i can figure this out lol! It was AMAZING digging this and figuring out what it is. 202 Year old silver coin. From Haiti. Wow.:shocked03:
This isn't even everything from the trip! I just wanted to make a separate post for this, because of the little bit of story to go with it haha. My dad will be posting the rest of the trip tomorrow!
