20 Cent Piece .... king_ ghidorah

[Mike Bearden]

Here's one of two I found over the years .. it's kind of rough but still a 20 center and always a nice surprise to see come out of the ground.
It was found after the county road department removed a huge piece of concrete from a bridge destruction project. Between myself and a detecting buddy we pulled around 120 pieces of silver out of this one area alone !
2 years later I was blessed by finding a 1876 that graded out at $8200 ... it's in a safety deposit box.
Anyway ... you never know what's under the coil until you dig it.

Mike

 

[king-ghidorah]

WOW!! That 75 looks in pretty good shape. Not only did you find just one but you now have two! That's amazing!

That 76 had have been a CC for it to be worth that much? Only 10,000 were minted and at MS-60 it's valued at $90,000 from the 06' Red Book.

 

[Chris(SoCenWI)]

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[king-ghidorah]

Chris,

You must be getting some nice rosy weather too around your way too.

 

[Chris(SoCenWI)]

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[Tinfoil]

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[Mike Bearden]

The concrete slabs that were removed surrounded the main footers, originally poured into pie shaped pieces just under each end of the bridge starting out flat at the base at ground level and pointing upwards at or about a 30 degree angle.
Don't know if the original workers lost the coins or not but the end of the brigde where most finds were made was also part of a fish camp/resort built just before the Civil War. I originally went there looking for CW relics and found quite a load of them too.
The 1875 that I pictured has a nasty nick on the side and the words "Twenty Cents" are barely readable but you might be surprised at some of the offers I've gotten for it like it is.
I can only WISH my 1876 was graded and slabbed for that much $$$$ ... however .... it wasn't .... but I still love the coin and I wouldn't take $10 K for it right now and I really NEED the money

Good Hunting
Mike

 

[Mike Bearden]

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