Biggest and oldest silver yet !

[Badfrog]

Just came back from hunting a couple of spots and managed just a couple of small things, but I did get my biggest and oldest silver coin yet. A 1811 british three shilling !

It must not be that common a coin to find as it was only produced between 1811 and 1816.

If I'm lucky again with silver, I might just brake in the 17oo's this year !

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

DR.ÖTEK Metal Detector, Waterproof Gold Detector, Pinpoint & Terrain Modes, Professional Metal Detector - Grab it through Amazon!

[TimTrac]

Nice coin... No doubt you will break into the 1700s...

 

[Tank69]

very sweet coin congrats

 

[crazyjarhead]

I'd be happy to find that. Mine is 1827. Good find in my book

 

[sscindercoop]

Congrats on your oldest

 

[LI Tom]

That is a great OLD silver and in real nice shape.You must have had a real thrill when that popped out!!

 

[hogge]

Pretty nice finds! Congrats.......Hogge

 

[wingmaster]

Congrats hope you get in the 1700's.

 

[spartacus53]

WTG on that 1811, it's amazing that it's still pretty sharp after all these years.

 

[FortBedfordbob]

Congrats on a Great Find ! You Gotta Love this Hobby

 

[Ia.FurTrade]

Love that unusual old silver!
Dale

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

Ya got me beat by 75 years on the silver!

I haven't seen many of those three shillings posted! Yours looks like it is in great shape.

WTG!

 

[artzstuff1]

BADFROG!!!! That is a sweet coin ,,very old indeed!!!!

have a good urn!!!

art

 

[CRUSADER]

Technically its a bank token issued during the silver/money shortage. One I have yet to find, although Shaun7 was lucky enough to get one. As you say its quite a chunk of silver - great find

 

[allen]

good going on that great looking coin !

 

[Evan/tn]

congrats on the big silver!

 

[CRUSADER]

PS. it was a hung amount of money back then.

3 shillings = 36 Pennies or 144 Farthings

So in the age where a farthing would get you various items, this was a massive loss to most people.

My 2005 Coin Book price in VF is £60 (just to give a rough idea of price)

 

[Badfrog]

3 shillings = 36 Pennies or 144 Farthings

I'm not good with figuring out British money. Someone told me it could be the equivalent of three weeks wage for a farm hand. Sorry for the guy, but he's not getting it back !

If I wanted to take some of the tarnish off, what would you recommend ? It's staying in my collection, so I'd like it to clean it a bit more.

Thanks

T

 

[CRUSADER]

3 shillings = 36 Pennies or 144 Farthings

I'm not good with figuring out British money. Someone told me it could be the equivalent of three weeks wage for a farm hand. Sorry for the guy, but he's not getting it back !

If I wanted to take some of the tarnish off, what would you recommend ? It's staying in my collection, so I'd like it to clean it a bit more.

Thanks

T

personally, if it were in my collection I would be happy with it like that. It looks dug, if you clean it, it will look like all the others on ebay.

 

[artorius]

Hi Badfrog,

That sure is a nice find!

One treatment that might take a little of the dirt off woithout giving the coin an overly cleaned appearance is to soak the coin overnight in distilled water. Keep changing the water and see how the coin improves.

Another treatment is to soak the coin overnight in rubbing alcohol. This will not remove tarnish, but it will remove organic material stains.

If you decide to actually clean the coin of all patina, i would soak the coin overnight in a solution of 75% distilled water and 25% common white household vinegar. I use this method on encrusted silver coins, or silver coins that have a hopelessly unattractive patina. Since neither is the case with your coin, my vote would be to avoid this treatment. (NOTE: The diluted vinegar method only should be used on coins of good silver - never on copper or nickel coins.)

One thing I would not use is silver polish - that simply will trash the appearance of your coin, and severely compromise its value.

artorius