Found today at 1700's house, inside stamp says "coin", Any idea of age ? Mangoave told me that after 1868 they started stamping the numbers in them.
Very cool find! In the early days they often used silver coins for the silver to make items out of as the coins were the most readily available silver. That would make this 90% silver instead of 92.5% sterling grade.
Equipment:
Minelab: CTX 3030, GPX 4800, X-Terra 705. Whites TDI SL.
2024: Silver 1, Gold 0
Best finds: 28 silver dime spill, 1800s Dutch customs seal.
Oldest/best coins: Late 1700's Chinese Cash Coin, 1837 Upper Canada large cent, 1877 Seated Dime
Oldest Relic find: 1800 Sailors Luck token
You Tube: Rediscovering America
Quote: Treasures are like potato chips, you can never have just one!
That's cool! I've never found a coin silver item. Just 925/ sterling. I did find a vintage German pendant stamped 830.
Sweet hunk of silver there!
Congrats! 😁
Sent from my SM-G930P using Tapatalk
Last edited by Ill Digger; 06-10-2017 at 12:28 AM.
Some days you get the corn, some days you get the cob
Oldest coin: 70 B.C. "Harlow Flyer" gold qtr. Stater
Oldest U.S. coin: 1814 Capped Bust Dime
Scandinavian or German silver would be .830, and sometimes German silver is .800. The odd thing are the items stamped "German Silver" actually have no silver at all. (Wikipedia)
Equipment:
Minelab: CTX 3030, GPX 4800, X-Terra 705. Whites TDI SL.
2024: Silver 1, Gold 0
Best finds: 28 silver dime spill, 1800s Dutch customs seal.
Oldest/best coins: Late 1700's Chinese Cash Coin, 1837 Upper Canada large cent, 1877 Seated Dime
Oldest Relic find: 1800 Sailors Luck token
You Tube: Rediscovering America
Quote: Treasures are like potato chips, you can never have just one!
Nice nab on the old bling! Only found one "coin" silver item ever, and it was a spoon, not a ring! Congrats.
John
Vermont relic hunting, one swing at a time.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG2...OLib30A/videos
That's a nice hunk of silver ...
Great recovery. Very cool.
Oldest Coin: 1699 William III Halfpenny
2024
Silver 5
Indian 3, Buff 1, V Nik 1, Rosie 2, Barber Dime, SLQ 1, barber qtr 1,
YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoU...FVGumMQ/videos
"Coin" grade only means something BEFORE the politicians start suckling out the life blood of the peasants working the fields! All nations on the downward decline do this. ANYHOOT, NICE silver you got there!
To have it marked "coin" makes it a nice early ring....
V3i- Prism IV- Pro Pointer
2020 GOAL: Any Flowing Hair coin
TOTAL 100 YEAR OLD COINS - -280
2020:
Silver: 11
Oldest U.S. Copper - 1795 Liberty Cap
Oldest U.S. Silver - 1829 Capped Bust Dime extra large 10C
Click here to view my album
very odd that it would have "coin" stamped into the band but not a maker's stamp ! I would agree its a pretty old ring though Kevin and finding any silver at a cellar site is a rarity!
"Honesty is an expensive gift ,
so don't expect it from cheap people"
XP Deus II , DFX ,TDI sl -
Click here to view my finds album
Sweet chunk of silver!
Always looking for that next ring !!
Great find that ring is a beauty. WD
Total silver 3 - Goal 50 (2024 Finds) - 0 Washington - 0 Barber Dimes - 0 Mercury Dimes- - 3 Roosevelt Dimes - 0 V Nickels - 0 Buffalos - 0 War Nickels - 0 Indian - 10 Wheats - $ 3.44 in clad
Relics: MILESTONES since 2012: 1700 silver coins - 8000 Clad Quarters - 500 Roosevelts - 750 Mercury Dimes
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote