Cal_Cobra Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 Hot off the press ? Dug this over the weekend, talk about digging history! I haven't been getting to hunt as much as I'd like to this year as my wife and I had a baby girl in May. She's a doll, but those of you with kids know the drill Anyhow, my wife asked me what I wanted for my birthday this month and I told her I wanted to go detecting for a few days at one of our old haunts, and to my amazement she said OK I was planning to go with TomCA, but he wasn't able to make it and I ended up going solo. This is a remote Spanish outpost site that we researched years ago. Tom's less crazy about it then I am, but I like the history around it and it's continued to produce interesting finds. It's a relaxing, beautiful place to detect, that just invokes early western frontier history, and almost every relic or coin you dig is dripping with age and history (for our neck of the woods that is). Anyhow, I had planned to use my Multi Kruzer with a new 7" concentric coil to work in the iron, but due to a headphone issue, I had to switch over to my Equinox 800. Boy am I glad I did, I made one of my best finds to date! A seated coin cache that I will never forget digging, and not just a seated coin cache, but a coin cache/spill with a hole mystery Was it Indian trade jewelry? Here's they are in all their glory: I dug several nice relics, and was able to capture the coin cache dug live: HH, Cal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim McCulloch Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 Quote Cal, what are the dates of those coins? Way cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swampstomper Al Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 Very kewl compilation find.. Fortunately no big-time numismatic heart-stoppers in the group, although there is an 1872 dime doubled die reverse variety known to be out there in scarceville.. Swamp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schoolofhardNox Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal_Cobra Posted December 13, 2018 Author Share Posted December 13, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal_Cobra Posted December 13, 2018 Author Share Posted December 13, 2018 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: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GB_Amateur Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 42 minutes ago, Cal_Cobra said: Seated dimes: ... 1853 ... 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strick Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 Thats really cool. Merry Christmas BTW Looks to me like they made them into buttons of sorts. Congrats on an epic hunt. strick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal_Cobra Posted December 14, 2018 Author Share Posted December 14, 2018 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 That is a pretty amazing find - congratulations! Were they in a container, or all in one hole, or just scattered about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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