BuckleBoy
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Hello All,
It was forecast to be 63 and sunny today, so I had to get out and scratch the itch. No video this time. Left my video camera at home.
But I got out in the cane fields and managed to get a handful of brass and copper, lots of pack studs, a parasol clip, some pottery, and fortunately two silver coins. The first coin I knew would be a silver dime. Only several inches deep, it locked right in on my F75. It was an 1899-O Barber. Some porosity to the obverse, but a rather nice reverse to the coin. Here is a just dug photo, and photos of the coin afterward:
Then I got another great coin signal and dug what looked like a Barber Quarter sticking out of the clod:
But when I pulled it free from the dirt, I was surprised to see that it was a Seated Quarter!
My last Seated Quarter was in 2013 January. Then Shanegalang dug a Seated Quarter in January 2014. Now I've dug this one in January 2015. So they seem to be in season during this month.
Anyhow, sucks about the hole in the coin. Man, what a hole!! BUT, I was still able to narrow down the date range. As you can see, this is the "with arrows" variety, which was minted 1853-1855, and then later in the 1870s again the coins had arrows beside the dates. But for the later "arrows at date" quarters, none were minted in New Orleans. And this one is an Orleans mintmark. That leaves 1853-O, 1854-O, or 1855-O. The 1853's had rays on the reverse around the eagle, but as you can see this coin does not. So it is either an 1854-O or 1855-O.
Here is a photo of both coins, just dug, and a nice spanish moss-covered tree that I walked by while scouting today.
Best Wishes to all in 2015,
Buck
It was forecast to be 63 and sunny today, so I had to get out and scratch the itch. No video this time. Left my video camera at home.
But I got out in the cane fields and managed to get a handful of brass and copper, lots of pack studs, a parasol clip, some pottery, and fortunately two silver coins. The first coin I knew would be a silver dime. Only several inches deep, it locked right in on my F75. It was an 1899-O Barber. Some porosity to the obverse, but a rather nice reverse to the coin. Here is a just dug photo, and photos of the coin afterward:Then I got another great coin signal and dug what looked like a Barber Quarter sticking out of the clod:
But when I pulled it free from the dirt, I was surprised to see that it was a Seated Quarter!
My last Seated Quarter was in 2013 January. Then Shanegalang dug a Seated Quarter in January 2014. Now I've dug this one in January 2015. So they seem to be in season during this month.
Anyhow, sucks about the hole in the coin. Man, what a hole!! BUT, I was still able to narrow down the date range. As you can see, this is the "with arrows" variety, which was minted 1853-1855, and then later in the 1870s again the coins had arrows beside the dates. But for the later "arrows at date" quarters, none were minted in New Orleans. And this one is an Orleans mintmark. That leaves 1853-O, 1854-O, or 1855-O. The 1853's had rays on the reverse around the eagle, but as you can see this coin does not. So it is either an 1854-O or 1855-O.
Here is a photo of both coins, just dug, and a nice spanish moss-covered tree that I walked by while scouting today.
Best Wishes to all in 2015,
Buck
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