Found my first Morgan Dollar :sick:

[Ohio Digger]

VIDEO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A-6lmJh-U0

....but, it's counterfeit. I dug it at my old 1860 farmhouse. I know it's era due to the depth and condition it came out in. I'm planning on taking it to a coin dealer to see if they can tell me anything else about it. I so bad want to dig a Morgan, but now I'm afraid I'll never dig another. This one rang up 11-40 to 11-42. Still a pretty interesting find but would have loved to have dug the real thing. Also dug a clean 1852 LC, intact skeleton key, old Standard Colour button, and a Montreal Canada agricultural token circa 1837-1838.

 

[moonshine]

wow that is some really cool stuff! too bad about the Morgan but its still cool.

 

[ron948]

I found one of those earlier this spring. 1895o. it was a perfect copy but no way is it silver. I got it out of an old school yard

 

[pointer80]

Yea if that was a real morgan it should be in better condition. Also I would think the fe number would be a little lower.

 

[oneguy]

Man that must have pissed you off. I KNOW your heart went pitter-patter.....lol I've been lucky enough to find 1 Morgan with my old Tesoro and I absolutely couldn't believe my eyes....quite a thrill and probably won't ever happen again. I've had 2 recent experiences kinda like yours lately. I've dug 2 "Smokey the Bear" tokens that are the size of a Half, made of aluminum, and have a reeded edge. BOTH times that I dug the tokens I KNEW that I'd be posting pics on the forum of a silver half.....lol

All in all...pretty cool find even tho fake and you made up for it with the LC (doubt I'll ever find one around here, country too young)....I envy you guys with the really OLD stuff....

Here's my one and only Morgan

 

[Sooper Dave]

Still a cool find but it's unfortunate that it's not the real deal! You made some awesome finds along with it, Congrats

 

[C&RHunter]

Nice video and a real nice bunch of finds at your old house site. The "Morgan dollar" is interesting. I wouldn't write it off as a fake until a few more things were checked out. I have found silver coins in areas with limestone gravel that are gray and in poor shape and a gray color. Not shiny like silver from good black dirt. The limestone and silver, or the copper that's in the silver coins, must not deal well together. I recovered a barber quarter once, from an area that stays damp, that had a thick black coating, but I used electrolysis on it and the thick black coating came off but the coin still is rather gray. The weight of a Morgan when new should be 26.73 grams. You might weight it to see how close the weight is. I have been fortunate enough to have found 3 Morgans in the last 5 years, if I remember correctly they read 1 FE / 40-41 CO on the E-Trac that I had at the time. Hopefully yours will turn out to be the real deal, just in rough shape......HH

 

[Tenspeed]

It does look different, but I agree with C&RHunter, check it out before you dismiss it as fake. Our local fairgrounds eats silver coins and makes them look like that. I found a silver quarter that was paper thin and we have found several other sliver quarters that were so corroded you couldn't get a date, you could just see enough detail to see they were a quarter.

I am still looking for my first Morgan too and I hope you actually found your first.

 

[looknforgold]

Loved the Video, too bad the morgan was fake, but everthing else? excellent, nice hunt...