Thanks a bunch, I have a borrowed whites, and we found burried cans around my freinds house along an old rock wall of sorts...The area is where his dad unearthed an parts of a union soldiers uniform and a knife for a rifle....
in these silly little cans/trays(rusted) were a few coins in each, I dont know, were they playing cards for money or something????
anyway, one particular coin interests me, it has a liberty womans head and shoulders profile on front-looks like shes wearing a toga, on back a very rough sketch of an eagle looking upwards with 13 stars around the top half of the coin. The date is 1819, and it is silver in color now.
Could it be worth anything other than the fact its almost 200 years old?
Should and if so HOW should I clean it. I know not to touch or rub it. I threw it into a glass of hot soapwater, and it cleared up enough to see what I described.
I feel like diving off of the deep end now and getting 2 of my own detectors. My bud has been MD for 3 yeas up there and found many old coins, many from Europe(1800's) and says I am his new luck charm, and days like this are or where not heard of. I found in total 27 coins of varying sizes from coins the size of todays dimes to pieces larger than 1 1/2 inches wide..... What is weird the dates go from the 1819 one, up to the 1930's. Some very weird looking silverish coins have an indian guy on front and what looks to be an animal on back (188?) Did not soak these yet. Other dime sizes coins have what looks like a guy with a jesters hat on with many points. I need this book so it seems. My bud knows the liberty coins of late, but says the 1819 coin and indian/animal coin are both amazing, interesting and possibly rare
what do we know....
I would write the story elsewhere but dont want to sound like a show off being new to the hobby...just seemingly VERY LUCKY
Thank you in advance, maybe I found thousands of $$$ worth of things someone else would appreciate and I can get my surf pro
and MXT that I have been drooling about for a year now.
I cant wait to hunt the beaches of my backyards on the North shore of LI and Montauk..
I will borrow a digital and take pic's asap, later this week and after the soaking....
Thank you in advance for any and all help and insight.
A very excited,
Mike Lang
PS if this reply is not in the right spot or seems off, do ehat needs to be done, thx.
