tabman
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Well I didn't find it with my metal detector, but I was out detecting when I acquired it. After detecting I always drive around looking for new sites to detect. I saw a carport sale and decided to stop and look around.
Long story short, her and her husband are moving to Florida and were getting rid of a few things. She's living in the house that she grew up in and her father was a coin collector before he died. The house was built in 1952 and was bought new by her father.
The house was the first house to be built in the neighborhood and was used as a model home. Bell and whistles went off in my head. There must have been a lot of people crossing that yard back when it was a model home back in 1952 and her father was a coin collector who always carried a bunch of silver coins in his pocket.
I knew that I needed to turn on the charm, because I sure wanted to detect that yard. She had some foreign coins and 1964 Washington quarter out on a table for sale. I already had my eye on a 75 cent coffee mug, so I offered her a dollar for it and the silver quarter and she accepted.
She said if I'm interested in some silver coins she had one she'd sell me. She went back in the the house and come back out with a 1881 Morgan Silver Dollar that looked brand spanking new. I don't know much about coin collecting, but figured it was worth a minimum of $10 dollars for melt value. She agreed to to $10 dollar price that I offered her.
It gets better, I got permission to detect her yard, since I was so nice to buy some stuff from her. I have to wait a couple weeks, but I'm OK with that.
Another good thing happened today, I kept my silver streak alive by finding a 1944 War Nickel. I used my Tesoro Tejon to go back over a couple of sites that I've already detected. I ended up finding 17 mostly deep nickles and some other clad coins. Two of them were a war nickel and a buffalo nickel. That sucker love low conductors. The only gold ring that I got my search coil over was plated.
Does anyone know the value of the 1881 Morgan Silver Dollar?
tabman
Long story short, her and her husband are moving to Florida and were getting rid of a few things. She's living in the house that she grew up in and her father was a coin collector before he died. The house was built in 1952 and was bought new by her father.
The house was the first house to be built in the neighborhood and was used as a model home. Bell and whistles went off in my head. There must have been a lot of people crossing that yard back when it was a model home back in 1952 and her father was a coin collector who always carried a bunch of silver coins in his pocket.
I knew that I needed to turn on the charm, because I sure wanted to detect that yard. She had some foreign coins and 1964 Washington quarter out on a table for sale. I already had my eye on a 75 cent coffee mug, so I offered her a dollar for it and the silver quarter and she accepted.
She said if I'm interested in some silver coins she had one she'd sell me. She went back in the the house and come back out with a 1881 Morgan Silver Dollar that looked brand spanking new. I don't know much about coin collecting, but figured it was worth a minimum of $10 dollars for melt value. She agreed to to $10 dollar price that I offered her.
It gets better, I got permission to detect her yard, since I was so nice to buy some stuff from her. I have to wait a couple weeks, but I'm OK with that.
Another good thing happened today, I kept my silver streak alive by finding a 1944 War Nickel. I used my Tesoro Tejon to go back over a couple of sites that I've already detected. I ended up finding 17 mostly deep nickles and some other clad coins. Two of them were a war nickel and a buffalo nickel. That sucker love low conductors. The only gold ring that I got my search coil over was plated.
Does anyone know the value of the 1881 Morgan Silver Dollar?
tabman
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