You Haters Can Doubt All You Want !!!
This was my first post to this site because I figured people would enjoy seeing such a nice find. It's so funny how people doubt someone when they post or say something that's kinda out of it's realm. I don't have anything to prove to people I don't know, but here's a little story about this find. I have been detecting with this machine for over 3 years now and mainly do shoreline hunts. I really don't care what the people say about machines not working very well in wet/dry sand because I have two witnesses that watched me pull this coin and numerous other 1700 & 1800's coins out of this area. I've found most of them in the dry sand by the eroded banks, but even in the shallow water going very slow. The coin is a little smaller in diameter of a fifty cent piece and thinner. The shoreline has a lot of oyster shells and I guess that's why it didn't drop down any farther than it was. Just my opinion about that. I took the coin to the Baltimore Coin Expo at the Convention Center a couple of years back to get some expert opinions on it. I was told it was worth about $700.00 - $1,100.00 to them. So I figured it was double the value. I did sell the coin to a friend which lives about twenty minutes from me for $1,500.00, which is what he offered me. I needed the money but I can always buy it back from him. He use to own a coin shop back in the 1980's. If it would satisfy some of you nay sayers/doubters I could easily stop by his house and take more pictures of it. And NO he didn't own it from the get go because I know how you doubters will think !!! The reason why it is on a "blackbook" is because I was working at a car dealership at the time. The book was used to appraise trade-ins. I know now I really opened up the nay sayers minds to doubt me even more. I feel it's my responsibility to explain and to give as much detail as possible because I can't stand liars or disloyal people. Well I hope this helps you doubters out, but if not so be it! Thanks to all for believing me from the very beginning! I hope Good Coin Karma comes your way soon