The "Coin Uno" or "Follow the Leader" game (World Coins edition)

Belgium (Austrian Netherlands): copper 2 liards (2 Oorden), Insurrection coinage, 1790

(NGC MS63 BN; pop. 3/4)

 

Meiji 16 (1883) Japan 1-rin.



So 1883 or Japan, next.

 

I just gave away a 1967 Israeli specimen set to my favorite clerk at the post office, who's into such things, but alas, I have no pictures, so I'll change it to USA or 1989, next.

 

USA or 1857.

(This 1857-O dime was in an NGC VF30 holder. Nice, for a relatively inexpensive coin. Something about those Seated coins with the mintmarks above the bow, inside the wreath, appeals to me, for some reason.)

 

This was my first detector find from the 1800s. It was only my second silver coin found with a modern detector, in August of 1993, and is the find that got me hooked on metal detecting.



USA or 1899, next.

@Mad Stax - your 1903-O dime inspired me to post this one. I've dug a couple of 1903-O Barber dimes as well, but since I still haven't gotten my two decades of detector finds imaged yet, there aren't any pictures of those right now.

 

That's a nice find. I'll take free silver any way I can get it!

This one knocked the wind out of me when I dug it up. It came in as a shallow "quarter" signal on the detector's meter. I was hunting a vacant lot where an old Victorian house had reportedly burned down in the 1950s.

Based on the detector signal, I was expecting a brown, grubby clad quarter. Seeing a big silver coin fall out of the plug I had cut in the red clay soil was quite a surprise. First thing I saw of the coin's design before I cleaned the clay off it was those sun rays, so I thought it was another Walking Liberty half at first. But no- it was better than that.

This is the only Oregon Trail half dollar I've ever owned. I've never bought one. Only dug one!

(Maybe I'll get a decent photo of it one of these days.)




So that's 1926 or USA, next.

 

That was indeed an epic find. But no, I am not especially talented as a detectorist. Just occasionally lucky.

I was the least successful of six diggers on my 2013 England trip - those guys put me to shame. And my local dig buddies routinely run circles around me, too.

I'm really quite average as far as detecting skills go, but I do have some sense of what constitutes a potentially good site.

Let's stay in the USA with "lucky finds", and go back to 1926.



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