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<\/a><\/p>\nFull bold Liberty, full detail in the feathers, and even the diamonds on the ribbons.\u00a0 Would go EF40 or AU50 for sure, where it not for the dirt.\u00a0 I’m afraid to clean it.\u00a0 Rare that I would get one that is not corroded (my first), a semi key date (my first), and EF detail (my first or second).\u00a0 When you can’t pull a silver trifecta, (or silver unifecta for that matter), you take what you can get.\u00a0 Nice coin, really.\u00a0 (I’d love to get a copper at this site, seeing how benign the dirt seems to be here).<\/p>\n
The other coin was a 1945 wheatie.\u00a0 No great shakes, but it opens up a new paradigm at the site.\u00a0 Even so, I wasn’t planning to go back to the site for a spell, given that I had only dug 4 known older coins in about 8 hours of hunting, and only one silver, but that IH is nice, and older than I expected, so maybe I can squeeze a seated out of here after all.\u00a0 OTOH, its very possible I won’t find another coin here.\u00a0 We’ll see.<\/p>\n
BTW, Pink Panther points out that yesterday’s spoon is from 1905.\u00a0 I didn’t think it was that old.\u00a0 Another reason to get reenergized about the site.\u00a0 Thanks Pink (I’m not sure why the comments don’t work, prolly cause you included a link — preventing links in comments eliminates spam).\u00a0 Here’s the link to the spoon on Ebay<\/a> (this link may be bad in a couple of weeks).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Back to the colonial era site of the last 2 days, and in a little less than 4 hours of hunting, I dug exactly 2 coins.\u00a0 Talk about low density (it is a huge site), being hunted out, or both. … Continue reading