what was your first silver coin find? mine was a...

[Ancient Dave]

[quote lordmarcovan][quote Ancient Dave][quote lordmarcovan]Nice "fishscale", Dave! Are you in Canada, or the northern US?

Nice sestertius in your avatar picture, too.[/quote]

I'm in northern Ontario Canada. Collecting Flavian sesterces is my other pasion.

Dave[/quote]

I'm doing the whole Imperial run, as far as I can get.

Here's my Galba.

It would appear we have more than one thing in common.

(Edit to add, for those reading- the rather scarce-ish 69 AD Galba sestertius I posted above is obviously a dug coin, but I wasn't the one who dug it- I bought it. I do hope to put the coil to the soil on the other side of the pond one day, though!)[/quote]

Nice Galba from the year of the four emperors. Because of the very short reign, months actually, those are hard to come by at a price us mortals can afford.

Dave

 

[lordmarcovan]

[quote Dyna_Willie]What is the origin of the 69 AD Galba sestertius? Approximate value?[/quote]

It's Roman. As Dave mentioned, these are tough, because Galba ruled for such a short period- only a matter of months in the year 69 ("The Year of Four Emperors"). I have a silver denarius of his equally ill-fated and short-lived successor, Otho, too. At 600 bucks, the Otho is my most expensive Roman. The Galba sestertius I posted above would have had a pricetag in the low four figures if it had a little less corrosion on it, I believe. I've seen some of that type priced around $1,400 or so. I bought this example from Rutten and Wieland in Switzerland, via their VCoins.com page. When I saw it was priced at only about $300, I pounced quickly!


Sorry to hijack the topic and take us off track- you don't wanna get me started on the Roman coins or I will bore y'all to death.

We now return to our regular scheduled programming- what was your first silver coin found with a detector?

 

[shawn1]

2 mercury dimes..

 

[Rick(ND)]

Started in 1973 with a Jetco BFO detector and I believe it was a merc dime in a old park and almost lost interest until the local Whites dealer had me try a Coinmaster 3 (non Disc)I believe it was for a weekend and that got me hooked as I got several nice coins plus a nice silver ring. From there the same year got 2 very high grade Barber half's, several seated dimes plus many nice silver coins and gold rings too as there was no disc so we dug anything that sounded good. Didn't have many pull tabs then, but we had rusty bottle caps which were our only real trash problem. Learned a lot the first year by listening to the signals and sizing them before digging and when in doubt I would always dig.