NICE 1875s TWENTY CENT PIECE IN PLOWED FIELD

Swanie1

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May 6, 2003
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Several years ago, My friend and I were metal detecting in a plowed field that was an agriculltural fairground
until 1910, when it closed. We hadn't had any luck and were about to leave and headed back toward my van. I still had my detector on and was waving it on the way. I got a nice signal and kicked the dirt aside and went over the spot, again, and no signal. I went over a dirt clod next to the spot and my detector sounded off, again. I broke open the clod and there was a nice 20 cent piece. I had never seen one, before. Over the years, I have found numerous 1800's silver and Indian Head cents, there.
 

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:oWould love to find a coin that old.
 

very nice find.
its about $120 in fine condition, i cant really tell but that is what it looks like from the picture
 

Fantastic find. Congrats. Never have found one of those. HH
Bob
 

Beautiful coin...that's one of the coins that has eluded me all these years...Congrats!! ;D

~Hank 8)
 

Thats the kind of coin you just sit and look at in good lighting!!

Nice find!
 

That one's way better than Fine (F12). It is at least Very Fine (VF20+). Perhaps close to Extremely Fine (EF40). And it looks like the soil was kind to it, as well.

Congratulations. While valuable, it is not worth a king's ransom, but I would rank something like that as the find of a lifetime (or at least in the top five or ten, depending on what else you've found over the years).

A truly amazing find.
 

Very nice find, Congrats!!! A twenty cent piece has eluded me and is high on my wish list of finds. Not too many of them found so you did great, WTG!!!
 

I concur with the grade. VF+ Not quite XF I'd say. Quite a coin though!

Buckleboy
 

Thats my goal coin...

Have found many coins, a gold $5 piece and many harder to find coins in the 23+ years of detecting and thats the one coin I'm wanting!! A very nice find!!
 

Agree with everybody else, thats a find of a lifetime! Not a lot of 20c coins made. Way to go! HH
Coinman66
 

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