What did you guys do with your first silver coin ever? This is what I did with mine!

cellrdwellr said:

Awesome idea, looks great! I didn't keep track of my finds when I first started in 2012. It wasn't until I came here in 2014 that I started keeping track of totals and whatnot. But my first silver coin was a barber dime at a cellar hole, not in my collection anymore unfortunately I did make a cool keychain though [emoji106] I might put my first one reale found this season in a bezel and chain. Thanks for sharing!

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3.14R8 said:

That looks sweet CW. I still have my first silver but it got mixed up with all the others but I won't forget finding it my 90 year old uncle was standing next to me when I dug it. Awesome memory.

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GroundSweeper said:

My first silver coin was an ugly filthy 42-S war nickel.



Second was a 64-D Rosie.



Both are in my silvers jar.



Like what you did there with your Wash.

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SoOregonMd said:

My VERY first Dug coin was a 1919 d mercury.. I was like wth is this?

my wife filled me in



Looked like a 1916 d as it was pretty worn and when I went inside and looked it up I was like NO way.. I broke out the magnify glass..looked VERY close and determined 1919d oh well it is 100 years old this January.



I thought oh heck this is going to be easy.. reality set in later..



I still have it on my display with the other 14 I found this year (rookie)

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L0S3R said:

I’m still wanting to make my love token (not my first silver) into either a necklace or keychain...

Bounty hunter - treasure hunter - cabelas
Best find to date - 15g platinum ring and 1876 love token

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BufordCityDawg said:

I left mine on my desk and my daughter took it and spent it.



BCD

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Ron 71 said:

That first one was definitely special but when you dig as few as I do they are all pretty special.

I had the same idea as you for my first silver coin, A 1944 Merc dime. Three years later and I still haven't put it in the bezel.

That GW looks great, I think the Merc might be a little too dainty to wear, I'll most likely give it to my granddaughter someday.



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sandgroper said:

That's a pretty cool idea!



I don't remember exactly what my first silver was, but I think it may have been a 50% silver threepence which I got at the beach. We were walking along the beach as a family (I had my detector with me of course), and at one section of the beach I found a couple of small coins (dad later told me they were old threepences). I still have the threepences, they're in my collection. Ever since I've found those silvers there, dad and I have been going back there after every storm. Between us we've probably pulled over 1000 modern coins there, and dozens of old coins. Also got a 9k ring there earlier this year, and also a few more silvers. Must've been an old fishing location (you can see remains of an old groyne)

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Truth1253 said:

I don’t know about my first ever but my first and only Half and first and only seated dime made my neck.

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coin whisperer said:

I’d be afraid to put that in a key chain cause I lose me keys all the time lol


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Hacksaw-BoB said:

OK . . . as I stated in another thread: In the late 1960-70s in San Diego, CA I was an avid metal detector hobbyist !!

I am still semi-active but cannot wait to introduce my grandkids to this wonderful hobby.



So back then, there were better odds of finding silver coins with a MD. I thought it would be “COOL” to clean the

silver coins I was finding and then place them in this Corning glass block sample bank. The glass bank got pretty

full quickly and would not take any more coins. Now it is a paper weight on my desk and the silver coins are held captive !!



So, I found out the glass bank itself empty weight is 227 grams, the bank with silver coins weighs 768 grams so there

is about 541 grams of silver coins in the bank. Doing the math, there is a little over a pound of silver coins in the glass

bank and YES, it does make a nice paper weight ! ! !

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