Excelerator 10 x 14 and Explorer SE Snags Me a NICE Find!

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

I went out after work today to a site that I have hunted a number of times in the past and come up with some nice Civil War bullets and buttons. It's a field near some woods. Well, it seems they are building some condo units there and the field and the woods are ALL TORN UP! They are clearing and grading the woods and are right in the middle of the process...no fill-dirt yet.

So I headed out to search some freshly cleared woods. I did not have my camera with me, so sorry for no "field shots". I wound up pulling a couple of wheaties, a nice skeleton key, and 3 decent 3-ringer 58 cal. minnieballs. And then I got the most perfect high-pitched 00-29 signal you ever saw and about 4 inches down. I KNEW it was a coin but as I had JUST DUG a 1967 quarter that read the same thing, I figured it was another clad quarter. Though the sound was SCREAMING silver. Well, lookie, lookie!

Group shot, front of coin...
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Group shot, back of coin...[attachment 57824 Seated2.jpg]

Close-up, front...
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Close-up, back...
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Needless to say, I was glad I went out there. I'll be heading back to see if there's any more to be had.

 

[Tony N (Michigan)]

I wonder whatever became of the man or boy that lost the coin? You think they might have been killed in the civil war? Kind of sad but kind of interesting.

 

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

Yeah, I often wonder those things too. You just never know!

 

[James N.D.]

Made you look!!! Sorry Mike! Just had to do that to you. Great looking Seated Quarter. You don't find many in that great of shape. Also is an older one and those Minnie Balls are a great find also. Hope you find many more great finds before they are lost forever when they start building those Condo's. Continued Success, Good Luck and HH.

 

[therick]

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[keithinvestigations]

Awesome Mike!!!

 

[Stacey in West Palm Beach]

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[jeff & Maria]

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[JW]

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[FrontierWest]

Are there any archies trying to save any relics there??

John

 

[Dan-Pa.]

You could find goodies with a broom..in any case congragulations on a super find. Excellent hunter plus Excellent machine determination and good old area to hunt usually equates to those super finds...

 

[beachguy777]

Unbelievable!!! What a great find, Mike. Just goes to show, keep digging for those CLAD, quarters, hugh?:|You never know what might (take it's place). Marc.

 

[Charles (Upstate NY)]

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[Larry--IndianaHVAC]

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[NH Bob]

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[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

Thanks Bob, though I sure would like to dig a few of those coppers like you get! Though I DO like these Seated coins...this is my second Seated Quarter...the other was about 5 years ago and at a site about 3 miles from this one...an 1853 with "Sunburst Eagle" on the obverse...I think the only year for the sunburst around the eagle?

Here's the quarter...
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This was from the rest of the hunt...same site, same day. I was using my White's DFX at the time but I could have been using a Tandy...this was a case of a "just plain great spot that nobody had gotten to yet".
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[jimb]

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[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

Thanks Charles! You "northerners" (I grew up on Long Island) do get some great stuff up there...Colonial coppers are pretty rare around here, from what I have seen. I've found ONE, but it was toast.

 

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

More like dropped my jaw to the ground. I SO did not expect that!

 

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

Well that was the first 1800's silver coin with the new coil and I think I'm considering it my second best silver coin ever...I'm definitely happy with the coil...thanks for recommending it to me!