Trash or Treasure

[McCDig]

Had an opportunity to hunt a friend's permission on Thursday and it is a challenging area where trash seems to have been pushed around by re-grading. Some of the older finds included a brass drawer pull, top finishing brass piece to a lamp, hemweight and then this piece that I was sure was trash. The target was shallow (4 inches) and had the appearance of aluminum when I got it out of the hole. Turns out to be Sterling and is marked "LSCO STERLING". No idea yet of the date.



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[Tommy G]

Anything silver, I would call treasure. I agree, it looks like a belt buckle. Nice find!

 

[against the wind]

Congratulations on recovering Sterling.

 

[coinman123]

What's the weight on that thing? Look Victorian.

 

[ScubaDetector]

ANYTHING marked sterling is treasure. Silver is at 18.00 an ounce. Even if it is scrap sterling it is still silver. Nice

 

[trapperart]

Treasure for sure congrats

 

[UnderMiner]

Sterling is always treasure! Great recovery!

 

[JoeDirty]

Sterling is never trash! Good job.

 

[McCDig]

Thx JoeDirty! All votes are for treasure. Had it pegged for trash until I saw "Sterling".

 

[McCDig]

Thx Underminer! If I had to rescue a buckle (and most are brass or iron), make mine a Sterling.

 

[McCDig]

Thx Art! Everyone says "Treasure !". Just goes to show that shallow and load can be good.

 

[McCDig]

Thx ScubaDetector! It is scrap someday but for now, a saved treasure.

 

[McCDig]

Thx Coinman. That would have been an easy detail to include. Will weigh it this weekend and edit post with update.

 

[deershed]

Nice chunk of silver, Congratts!!

 

[McCDig]

Thx ATW! Appears to be enough silver to make a half dollar; will know for sure after it's weighed.

 

[McCDig]

Thx Skippy SH13! This was the only silver we recovered that day. We thought there would be more. Maybe it's just being masked by all the trash signals.

 

[McCDig]

Thx Tommy G! "Treasure" gets the vote. "Sterling" says it all.

 

[texjim]

Nice finds

 

[Relicific]

I say that's something to be proud of.
Congrats

 

[Jamie1993]

Definitely treasure. Congrats on the sterling. Hopefully you can find info on the maker.