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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2827474, member: 10461&quot;]That&#039;s a nice find.&nbsp; I&#039;ll take free silver any way I can get it!</p><p><br /></p><p>This one knocked the wind out of me when I dug it up.&nbsp; It came in as a shallow &quot;quarter&quot; signal on the detector&#039;s meter.&nbsp; I was hunting a vacant lot where an old Victorian house had reportedly burned down in the 1950s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Based on the detector signal, I was expecting a brown, grubby clad quarter.&nbsp; Seeing a big silver coin fall out of the plug I had cut in the red clay soil was quite a surprise.&nbsp; First thing I saw of the coin&#039;s design before I cleaned the clay off it was those sun rays, so I thought it was another Walking Liberty half at first.&nbsp; But no- it was better than that.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the only Oregon Trail half dollar I&#039;ve ever owned.&nbsp; I&#039;ve never <i>bought</i> one.&nbsp; Only <i>dug</i> one!</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3">(Maybe I&#039;ll get a decent photo of it one of these days.)</font></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Diggers%20Diary/DD-263-1926S-50c-Oregon-Trail.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>So that&#039;s 1926 or USA, next.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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