Large Cent, No Stars Seated Dime, SLQ

[doninbrewster]

Went on a club hunt yesterday and did ok. Came up with a bucket list item, an 1837 No Stars Seated Dime. The only made the No Stars obverse type for 2 years so it's quite rare as a type. I would have been happy if I only found one of the coins I found, but finding these three made for a good day. The 1826 LC is a little toasted, but the SLQ is nice. Other members from my club came up with a half real from the 1770's, 1798 LC, 1852 3 cent silver and a beautiful sterling bracelet that seems to contain a row of large amber pieces surrounded by silver. Other silver was found, but these were some of the highlights.

 

[bootyhoundpa]

Awesome finds..

 

[JimmyCT]

Fantastic finds!

 

[doninbrewster]

Thanks! I'm psyched about the No Stars Dime. Quite rare to come out of the ground.

 

[kschae4]

Very nicely done. Love SLQs.

 

[1950cupajo]

Have you looked that up on line? I don't think I have ever seen a no stars seated dime.

Nice

 

[William-NM]

That's an impressive trio - especially the 'no stars' - that's a real trophy find!

 

[doninbrewster]

Have you looked that up on line? I don't think I have ever seen a no stars seated dime.

Nice

The 1837 No Stars Seated Dime has a mintage of just 682,000. The also made a No Stars dime in New Orleans in 1838 with a mintage of just over 400,000 so with a combined mintage of under 1.1m it makes for a scarce "type" coin. It's also the first year of the seated coinage. Although it's not a high grade, it is decent and I'm thrilled with the find. I've found multiple pieces of Spanish silver from the 1700's, but this is my earliest US silver coin. I'm determined to find some "Bust" silver this year. By the way, here's a photo of some of the stuff that came out of our club hunt.


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[MikeO]

Nice finds Don.

 

[Will1877]

What does a club hunt mean? Fellas from the detector club find a site to hunt? Great finds must be an awesome site. Can you go back and detect the area some more?

 

[doninbrewster]

Bill, It is a hunt where members of our metal detecting club get permission to metal detect private property. Members pay a small fee which goes to the property owner. This particular site was an old orchard we went to last year and had success so we went back. I'm sure we'll go back again to this site. In the meantime we have other hunts scheduled. If you're not in a club, join one. If you're in the Hudson Valley area of NY you can join ours at www.greattreasure.com or if you're in CT you can try http://www.noreasters.net. We schedule hunts together to give our members more opportunity for good finds. These are not seeded hunts, but old properties. Most of our hunts seem to turn up either colonial copper or reals etc.