Hey Hive Peeps,
I'm so excited! I'm about 8 months into metal detecting and can check one more off my bucket list. Yesterday, I found a beauty on the river bank! This coin below is a 1876 Liberty Seated Silver Quarter. This was the standard quarter in America from 1838-1891. It may be in horrible condition...but to know that I found silver this old...well ...it just feels great!
I was about to leave the detecting site with only one wheat cent (not a horrible day to find only one wheat but not great)...and then this appeared... The signal on the detector was kind of so so but so glad I investigated!
This is what silver will look like when exposed to water and air for 150 years.
After lightly removing some of the heavy tarnish to decipher a design this showed up...
This is about as bad of condition as a coin can get...but fortunately with the date and faint outline, I could make out the type of coin. The coin is much thinner than a typical quarter now as the river banks naturally rock-tumbled this baby for 150 years haha.
The back of the coin is very hard to see...
Sometimes it's not about the condition of a coin, but the thought of the history this coin must have been/traveled through. It is also awesome that it is 90% silver!
Bonus: Last week I also found a Indian Head Penny from 1898. Yeah!
Hope you guys are doing well. I wish the best to all those treasure seekers and silver stackers! Keep stackin'
Cheers!