Yooper14
Well-Known Member
Some days fortune favors pure chance....
I was standing on top of one of my dirt piles from my early 1900s dump. I decided to dig a little hole to bury some odds and ends common bottles that I didn't want lying around to attract others to my dump. So I dug a hole, maybe 2'x2'x2'. The last shovelfull up had a disc in it, possibly a coin, so I pulled it out. Sure enough, I had missed it when I was originally digging, and had by some random chance happened upon it today (this happened about a week ago). It turned out to be a Standing Liberty Quarter, which is very cool, because in all my years of detecting I have never been able to find one of these. One time a guy found one in minutes at a site that I had hunted to death, so this was a real coup for me, and I did a little chicken dance.
If you know anything about coins, the SLQ's tended to lose their detail and dates quickly, as the relief was very high. This one's no exception...the date was nearly off. I cleaned it up just a tad when I got home. I couldn't see any date, but from the arrangement of the stars on the back, it was pre-1918. So, 1916 or 1917. Now that got my heart a-going, because the 1916's are super-super-rare.
The only visible part of my date is right edge of the last digit, and it's smooth, curved digit at the bottom...you tell me which one is smooth and curved at the bottom-right edge: 6 or 7?? OOOOO-EEEE! I'm finishing cleaning it tonight and will be sending it off for an appraisal. I'll keep you posted, and am hoping to take some nice pictures of it tomorrow.
Talk about random!
Yooper
I was standing on top of one of my dirt piles from my early 1900s dump. I decided to dig a little hole to bury some odds and ends common bottles that I didn't want lying around to attract others to my dump. So I dug a hole, maybe 2'x2'x2'. The last shovelfull up had a disc in it, possibly a coin, so I pulled it out. Sure enough, I had missed it when I was originally digging, and had by some random chance happened upon it today (this happened about a week ago). It turned out to be a Standing Liberty Quarter, which is very cool, because in all my years of detecting I have never been able to find one of these. One time a guy found one in minutes at a site that I had hunted to death, so this was a real coup for me, and I did a little chicken dance.
If you know anything about coins, the SLQ's tended to lose their detail and dates quickly, as the relief was very high. This one's no exception...the date was nearly off. I cleaned it up just a tad when I got home. I couldn't see any date, but from the arrangement of the stars on the back, it was pre-1918. So, 1916 or 1917. Now that got my heart a-going, because the 1916's are super-super-rare.
The only visible part of my date is right edge of the last digit, and it's smooth, curved digit at the bottom...you tell me which one is smooth and curved at the bottom-right edge: 6 or 7?? OOOOO-EEEE! I'm finishing cleaning it tonight and will be sending it off for an appraisal. I'll keep you posted, and am hoping to take some nice pictures of it tomorrow.
Talk about random!
Yooper
