Walker Half and 1883 Shield Nickel

[Chris(SoCenWI)]

Hello All,

Found some local road construction, Not easy hunting; I think they used foundry slag under some the sidewalks that were dug up, almost impossible detecting conditions

As always, finding a big silver is fun.

I think this is only my third or fourth shield nickel. It looks like it might be an 1883/1882 over strike.

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Also found a flat button that was heavily damaged, some of the back mark is readable, I suspect this is 1820s or earlier.

And a very worn dime I found up in MN. I thought it might be Bust, but enough of the back is legible to rule that out.

I took a bunch of pictures of these with my USB microscope that I was going to post. It really does show a lot more detail, but the pictures are too big to upload until I figure out a good way to resize them.

Thanks,

Chris(SoCenWI)

 

[Big Treble]

Nice job, never hunted a tearout, i am guessing timing has to be just right. Ive been watching one still in the planning stage, and I think it's going to reveal many goodies due to the history, age of the community and the age of the road.

Love to talk to some tearouts experts.

 

[Mark kus]

Nice finds those walkers sure are nice to see still have yet to find a shield myself..
Sidewalk and street tear outs are a go to for me when I see them I’m on them!

 

[Chris(SoCenWI)]

BT,

Many of my best/oldest finds have come from tear outs. Kind of sad, knowing that all sorts of goodies have been loaded on dump trucks and sent who knows where? Basically the best spots are where they've scraped off a few inches of soil but left the underlying intact. I did a park in my home town when they scraped off four inches to do a kiddie playground. Amazing number of old coins came out, and this place had been detected a million times.

Chris

 

[Big Treble]

BT,

Many of my best/oldest finds have come from tear outs. Kind of sad, knowing that all sorts of goodies have been loaded on dump trucks and sent who knows where? Basically the best spots are where they've scraped off a few inches of soil but left the underlying intact. I did a park in my home town when they scraped off four inches to do a kiddie playground. Amazing number of old coins came out, and this place had been detected a million times.

Chris

Almost makes my mouth water lol, need to find a way to tap into the GPS systems in he excavators lol

 

[doc holiday232]

Walker--most beautiful US coin and my birth year.

 

[Foreverteachable]

Fabulous finds!

 

[JimmyCT]

Very nice finds!

 

[Blind Squirrel]

Nice half and shield nickel! You earned those finds! Best of luck and...

Happy Hunting!
Blind Squirrel