1825 British Shilling found this morning

[MAcle1997]

I got out for a few hours this morning to hunt in a local park. I crossed a small creek and was hunting an overgrown path that runs along the creek bank. First coin found was a 1916-S wheat cent near an old tree stump. Further up the path I got short, repeating 1-29 signal on the Explorer II. I was hoping I'd find a nice silver quarter. I gave it plenty of room to avoid scratches and popped out this coin from the rocks and small roots. After a quick rinse in the creek I was surprised to see it was a shilling instead of a quarter. I'd found an 1881 Indian Head Cent and an 1898 Barber Dime at this site, so I was expecting another Barber coin, or maybe even a Seated or Standing Liberty Quarter. There aren't many targets at this site but those that I find are usually old.

Mark

 

[teleman2525]

NICE FIND

 

[TokenDigger]

Very cool find! HH

 

[captn_se]

Wow, that's a really old silver coin!!

Thanks for sharing that rare find!!

Major congrats,
CAPTN SE
Dan

 

[stubbs1]

Real cool find. WTG & HH

 

[DougF]

That's outstanding - I would think that George IV coins are not common even in the UK, since he had a relatively short reign. Congrats.

 

[Erik in NJ]

That's a nice shilling! Old for the US!! Congrats!

 

[Gold Nuggets]

Very nice find...congratulations
Gold Nuggets