1893 Columbian Exposition Half Dollar

[MAcle1997]

Got out for a few hours today and decided to try a forested area beside a small creek
that flows through a local park. After a short hike through the woods I started finding a
few wheat cents and a modern dime. The wheats looked old and crusty but three of them
turned out to be 1944 and the other is dated 191?. I was really surprised to see this
Columbian half dollar pop up from about two inches below the leaves. Its the oldest half
I've found and the only commemorative. I've thought plenty of times that it would be nice
to find a commemorative half but figured it would never happen.

Keep on searching! Mark

 

[MNCoinhunter]

Nice half-dollar !! I found one on EBay, that was the best I could do.

Congrats !!

 

[Great Republic]

Great find. Congrats!

 

[Jim D]

Very Nice find!

 

[dewcon4414]

Ive gotten a couple of those at auctions as well.... but not out of the dirt. Neat odd find... someone lost a non circulated coin. Thats what you get for playing with your coins outside. Great find.

Dew

 

[TokenDigger]

Very cool find! I hope you're able to hit that site some more for other goodies. Way to go and HH!

 

[bbqman]

AWESOME ! WTG

 

[jcooking]

Nice find!

 

[widebody]

[size=large]you have done the darn near impossible by finding, instead of buying, this very nice coin. congradulation.

HH [/size]