1849/1848 Seated Half Dime - 23 Silver Dimes

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Yesterday I was able to detect for a while at an old park. From there I picked up three silver coins - a 1849/1848 Seated half dime, a merc and a Roosevelt dime. I also dug up five Indian Head cents, but they are corroded.

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The Seated half dime is an overdate, 1849/1848.

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Today afternoon I headed to detect at a small park I had recently spotted. I had a great time detecting there, picking up 23 silver coins - 7 Roosevelt dimes and 16 mercury dimes.

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The site also yielded two large cents. I initially thought they were in better shape, but my eyes deceived me. 8/

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An Old Dutch Cleanser watch fob. It still had a piece of the watch strap, but it must have dropped off when I took it out to take photos. :confused:

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Another incredible hunt, Angel! Wow, it must have been a ton of fun digging all those silvers! Had this park not been hunted very thoroughly before, or were the signals masked by trash?

That 1849/8 Seated Half Dime is a real beauty! It appears to be in wonderful condition! Very cool that it is the overdate variety too!

For us here in the midwest ANY copper looks great, because we rarely find them at all! I love the watch fob too. Nice that it still has the enamel on it.

Congrats on another fantastic hunt! :clapping:
 
Just an incredible couple of hunts Angel. :peace:

The 49/48 Seated half dime is an awesome find. :smitten: I definitely can appreciate it.

But my jaw drops to your 23 silver dime hunt. :shocked04: Can't even imagine how fun that would be.
With two LC's in the mix, I'll bet you were a little surprised Barber's and Seated's didn't find their
way under your coil.

Congratulations sir.
 
Gosh that is just awesome....23 silver and 2 Largies wow, and that half dime is just gorgeous! I am going to have to keep my Thesarus handy I am running out of adjectives to describe my amazement at your finds my friend! Well to quote the immortal Gomer Pyle Goleee |:cheering:
 
:shocked01:...... :shocked01:........ ahhhh.

Thats amazing. Im speechless.
Congrats on a seriously terrific day of hunting. Happy Hunting!!
 
Tony Two-Cent link=topic=9571.msg107502#msg107502 date=1333853875 said:
Another incredible hunt, Angel! Wow, it must have been a ton of fun digging all those silvers! Had this park not been hunted very thoroughly before, or were the signals masked by trash?

The lack of quarters or larger silver does suggest that the small park has been cherry-picked. It's actually more of a baseball field, with plenty of surface trash to deal with, though it wouldn't account for all the dimes being missed.


jkress link=topic=9571.msg107503#msg107503 date=1333853911 said:
Just an incredible couple of hunts Angel. :peace:

The 49/48 Seated half dime is an awesome find. :smitten: I definitely can appreciate it.

But my jaw drops to your 23 silver dime hunt. :shocked04: Can't even imagine how fun that would be.
With two LC's in the mix, I'll bet you were a little surprised Barber's and Seated's didn't find their
way under your coil.

Congratulations sir.

Yeah, I did hope for seated coins after picking up the coppers. However, the coppers were picked up at the fringes of the park. What may account for the coppers is that they were in an area that likely had been the original old open field, and the baseball field was added later, perhaps back in the 20's or 30's. The baseball field itself yielded nothing older than wheat cents.

Bell-Two link=topic=9571.msg107506#msg107506 date=1333854148 said:
Gosh that is just awesome....23 silver and 2 Largies wow, and that half dime is just gorgeous! I am going to have to keep my Thesarus handy I am running out of adjectives to describe my amazement at your finds my friend! Well to quote the immortal Gomer Pyle Goleee |:cheering:

Thank you BT!


MassDirtFisher link=topic=9571.msg107519#msg107519 date=1333855274 said:
:shocked01:...... :shocked01:........ ahhhh.

Thats amazing. Im speechless.
Congrats on a seriously terrific day of hunting. Happy Hunting!!

I was speechless during the hunt too. lol Thanks Tim!
 
and yet another great hunt all that silver in one hunt its a day to remember that for sure congrats on another fantastic hunt dennis
 
WTG Angel, that sure is some fine hunting. Congrats on the overdate seated and of course getting 23 silvers from one park is huge. Once again our soil has soiled the coppers.
 
Angel... We are not worthy !!! You are in a league of your own... and amazing...

:shocked03: :omg: :wow: :perfect10: :clapping: |:confused:) :white:usaflag::
 
another jaw dropping eye popping hunt Angel! nothing else to say but wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!! you sure are in tune with your machine , and the silvers in any location you hunt are sure to be found. simply amazing! congrats on another great hunt! :perfect10:
 
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Angel's at it again! If he keeps finding all this silver it will pull the price down. As always knowledge, practice and a little luck will pay off. Great hunting Angel. :clapping: :clapping: :clapping: :clapping: :clapping: :clapping: :clapping: :clapping: :clapping: :clapping: :clapping: :clapping: :clapping: :clapping: :clapping: :clapping: |:confused:)
 

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