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What an adventure that turned out to be. Maybe they strung them coins as a savings and hung them somewhere inside their structure? Great hunt.

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7 hours ago, Jimmy M said:

Cal, what are the dates of those coins? Way cool.

The dates are as follows.

Seated dimes:

1842
1843
1853
1869
1872
1875 CC
1876
1877
1882

Seated half-dimes:

1857  
1858 O
1872

Had that CC been a year earlier it would've made me cry that it'd been holed ? 

Goes to show you how rare that rare date coins really are if you consider that these were just random circulated seated coins of the day when they were holed and lost. 

 

 

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Given the proximity of this Spanish outpost to a nearby Indian village, and given we've found Indian trade items at this site in the past, I'd be pretty sure the Indians holed these coins for some decorative purpose. 

Steveg posted photos from an Indian museum of something pretty cool, not saying they were used exactly like this, but perhaps something on this order:

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42 minutes ago, Cal_Cobra said:

Seated dimes:

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1853

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Does the 1853 have arrows next to the date?  If 'No', it is a semi-key date with only 91,000 minted.  Still no numismatic value given the hole.  ?

Exciting finds, nonetheless!

 

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Thats really cool. Merry Christmas BTW :smile:  Looks to me like they made them into buttons of sorts.  Congrats on an epic hunt. 

strick

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14 hours ago, GB_Amateur said:

Does the 1853 have arrows next to the date?  If 'No', it is a semi-key date with only 91,000 minted.  Still no numismatic value given the hole.  ?

Exciting finds, nonetheless!

 

I just checked, it's got arrows....probably just as well it does :wink:

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