My first SLQ!!

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Casey13

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Hi Everyone,
I'm so excited to have found my first Standing liberty Quarter! And I found it without the detector too lol. I went out to an early 1900s site where there has been a bunch of old trash from that time period. I've pulled many bottles and all kinds of neat finds metal and non metal over the past couple of years. Ive never been able to find a silver coin there, just indians, wheats and V nickels. The last couple of days I've just been digging over the stuff that I've went through in the past and have been finding little pieces that I've missed. Well today I had my detector on but just had it leaning on a tree and was digging around. I first popped out this neat old hair clip and was just happy with that. About 10 minutes later I popped a broken bottle neck out of the ground and I just barely caught the glimpse of a round object inside the neck. I knew right away it was silver and while looking at part of the visible design I thought SLQ or maybe a religious pendant. I stopped right there and headed out with excitement to go rinse it off. I couldn't believe the detail it had on it too!
Thank you so much for looking!
 

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Casey13 said:
Hi Everyone,
I'm so excited to have found my first Standing liberty Quarter! And I found it without the detector too lol. I went out to an early 1900s site where there has been a bunch of old trash from that time period. I've pulled many bottles and all kinds of neat finds metal and non metal over the past couple of years. Ive never been able to find a silver coin there, just indians, wheats and V nickels. The last couple of days I've just been digging over the stuff that I've went through in the past and have been finding little pieces that I've missed. Well today I had my detector on but just had it leaning on a tree and was digging around. I first popped out this neat old hair clip and was just happy with that. About 10 minutes later I popped a broken bottle neck out of the ground and I just barely caught the glimpse of a round object inside the neck. I knew right away it was silver and while looking at part of the visible design I thought SLQ or maybe a religious pendant. I stopped right there and headed out with excitement to go rinse it off. I couldn't believe the detail it had on it too!
Thank you so much for looking!
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Beautiful find! And it's your first one to boot! I'd go have a beer and celebrate:)
 

Casey13 said:
Hi Everyone,
I'm so excited to have found my first Standing liberty Quarter! And I found it without the detector too lol. I went out to an early 1900s site where there has been a bunch of old trash from that time period. I've pulled many bottles and all kinds of neat finds metal and non metal over the past couple of years. Ive never been able to find a silver coin there, just indians, wheats and V nickels. The last couple of days I've just been digging over the stuff that I've went through in the past and have been finding little pieces that I've missed. Well today I had my detector on but just had it leaning on a tree and was digging around. I first popped out this neat old hair clip and was just happy with that. About 10 minutes later I popped a broken bottle neck out of the ground and I just barely caught the glimpse of a round object inside the neck. I knew right away it was silver and while looking at part of the visible design I thought SLQ or maybe a religious pendant. I stopped right there and headed out with excitement to go rinse it off. I couldn't believe the detail it had on it too!
Thank you so much for looking!
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That’s an incredible find and story. Imagine the history behind that coin and bottle.
 

That coin is in unbelievable condition. Because if the the dies were made, dates on the quarters minted prior to 1925 wore off pretty quickly, causing them to be redesigned for pieces struck that year and beyond. What a great find!
 

Casey13 said:
Hi Everyone,
I'm so excited to have found my first Standing liberty Quarter! And I found it without the detector too lol. I went out to an early 1900s site where there has been a bunch of old trash from that time period. I've pulled many bottles and all kinds of neat finds metal and non metal over the past couple of years. Ive never been able to find a silver coin there, just indians, wheats and V nickels. The last couple of days I've just been digging over the stuff that I've went through in the past and have been finding little pieces that I've missed. Well today I had my detector on but just had it leaning on a tree and was digging around. I first popped out this neat old hair clip and was just happy with that. About 10 minutes later I popped a broken bottle neck out of the ground and I just barely caught the glimpse of a round object inside the neck. I knew right away it was silver and while looking at part of the visible design I thought SLQ or maybe a religious pendant. I stopped right there and headed out with excitement to go rinse it off. I couldn't believe the detail it had on it too!
Thank you so much for looking!
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Awesome Detail for an SLQ!!! Very Nice!!! Congrats!!!
 

Now that's a different type of recovery, good eye!
It's a really sweet looking SLQ for sure.
Certainly one for the keeper display. Congrats
 

Argentium said:
Very nice find ! You know you have a higher grade SLQ when you see that beaded ornament on the obverse near the rim ..( and a date )
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Thank you!! Your right, it looks like it wasn't in circulation that long at all.
 

pepperj said:
Now that's a different type of recovery, good eye!
It's a really sweet looking SLQ for sure.
Certainly one for the keeper display. Congrats
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Thank you so much!! I'm definitely keeping it for display 👍🏻
 

Mackaydon said:
Casey: If I owned it, I wouldn't sell it for less than $50.
Don........
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Thank you so much Don,
I agree with you.
I don't plan on ever selling it. I was just curious to how much it's worth in value.
 

NevadaDave said:
That coin is in unbelievable condition. Because if the the dies were made, dates on the quarters minted prior to 1925 wore off pretty quickly, causing them to be redesigned for pieces struck that year and beyond. What a great find!
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Thank you so much NevadaDave! That makes sense with most of the ones you find with those years the details gone off the coin.
 

Coinstar magnet said:
It's such an unusual kind of recovery....you wonder what the circumstances were for that coin to end up like that.
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Coinstar magnet said:
It's such an unusual kind of recovery....you wonder what the circumstances were for that coin to end up like that...
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Coinstar magnet said:
It's such an unusual kind of recovery....you wonder what the circumstances were for that coin to end up like that...
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I know! That's what got me so blown away about how I found it.
 

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