Ronstar
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First off Happy Fathers Day to all the Dads out there……
jkline and I hit the AdLawn again today and the competition as usual was pins and needles. We started a bit before 9am and went different directions. Went quite awhile finding nothing but trash but then finally dug a 42S wheat so I text Jeff. Oh sure, he just found a 1920 WLH!!! Then I pulled another one of those copper cannon fuses and finally a clad dime. Ok, this sucks so the old lawn maybe is finally getting bare? I lost track of Jeff so moved over to the other side of the Ad Bldg. He comes around and shows me the ‘20 Walking Lady. Says he needs to get home so starts his way across the lawn, technically his last coin of the day I suppose.
I continue on in the area where we both found silvers earlier. Decided to try Boost Program on the F75 and began to notice it seems to hit harder on most everything. Dug a clad dime we both missed earlier (1965) grumble…. Then dug a gold colored ladies ring, I couldnt make out any hallmarks but it was pretty well caked in dirt too. Next up was a 1921S wheat near where I got the 42 Merc/46 Rosie stuck to each other and then a 56D wheat. Its getting pretty tiring so move over to where Jeff had his multiple silver finds a couple weeks back and get a strong quarter or a bit above signal and dug 11 pennies in two holes side by side. One 59 and the rest were 60-64s. Ok, done. Started to swing and walk towards the truck and just as I was thinking to shut it off and just go I get a solid 85-86 (half dollar) and start thinking probably more canslaw as thats happened several times here but this is pinpointing at 10-11” which is a bit deep for canslaw. I get a measured 9” down and hit clay. Garrett is buzzing telling me whatever it is is still just a little bit further. Well, up pops a larger size coin just locked into that clay solid and made quite the coin ball. What little bit of dirt that broke off I could see the letters/word “Columbia”. Oh sure, last coin for the day and some drug lord lost his good luck piece.
Get home and put everything into bowl with a splash of Dawn liquid and hot water. Go off and take a shower and come back. Excited to see if any of the jewelry is real and nope its all junk. Get the coins cleaned up and the Columbian is still caked but its coming off. I keep scrubbing with the toothbrush and I see “United States of America” on top and “Columbian Half Dollar” on the bottom. ??????????, ? Turn it to the obverse and now can see 1893 on the bottom and “Worlds Columbian Exposition Chicago” around the edge. It took a good minute to sink in that this was a coin, a US coin. I cant find it in the Redbook under Half Dollars so went on the net. Its a Commemorative coin so back to the RedBook and there it was, and it says the first Commemorative coin ever issued! I just stood there looking at it…… I almost passed on it as canslaw. Its always the last coin of the day as proven twice today.
Sorry for being long but its an event to remember and I learned about a coin I didnt know about!!!
jkline and I hit the AdLawn again today and the competition as usual was pins and needles. We started a bit before 9am and went different directions. Went quite awhile finding nothing but trash but then finally dug a 42S wheat so I text Jeff. Oh sure, he just found a 1920 WLH!!! Then I pulled another one of those copper cannon fuses and finally a clad dime. Ok, this sucks so the old lawn maybe is finally getting bare? I lost track of Jeff so moved over to the other side of the Ad Bldg. He comes around and shows me the ‘20 Walking Lady. Says he needs to get home so starts his way across the lawn, technically his last coin of the day I suppose.
I continue on in the area where we both found silvers earlier. Decided to try Boost Program on the F75 and began to notice it seems to hit harder on most everything. Dug a clad dime we both missed earlier (1965) grumble…. Then dug a gold colored ladies ring, I couldnt make out any hallmarks but it was pretty well caked in dirt too. Next up was a 1921S wheat near where I got the 42 Merc/46 Rosie stuck to each other and then a 56D wheat. Its getting pretty tiring so move over to where Jeff had his multiple silver finds a couple weeks back and get a strong quarter or a bit above signal and dug 11 pennies in two holes side by side. One 59 and the rest were 60-64s. Ok, done. Started to swing and walk towards the truck and just as I was thinking to shut it off and just go I get a solid 85-86 (half dollar) and start thinking probably more canslaw as thats happened several times here but this is pinpointing at 10-11” which is a bit deep for canslaw. I get a measured 9” down and hit clay. Garrett is buzzing telling me whatever it is is still just a little bit further. Well, up pops a larger size coin just locked into that clay solid and made quite the coin ball. What little bit of dirt that broke off I could see the letters/word “Columbia”. Oh sure, last coin for the day and some drug lord lost his good luck piece.
Get home and put everything into bowl with a splash of Dawn liquid and hot water. Go off and take a shower and come back. Excited to see if any of the jewelry is real and nope its all junk. Get the coins cleaned up and the Columbian is still caked but its coming off. I keep scrubbing with the toothbrush and I see “United States of America” on top and “Columbian Half Dollar” on the bottom. ??????????, ? Turn it to the obverse and now can see 1893 on the bottom and “Worlds Columbian Exposition Chicago” around the edge. It took a good minute to sink in that this was a coin, a US coin. I cant find it in the Redbook under Half Dollars so went on the net. Its a Commemorative coin so back to the RedBook and there it was, and it says the first Commemorative coin ever issued! I just stood there looking at it…… I almost passed on it as canslaw. Its always the last coin of the day as proven twice today.
Sorry for being long but its an event to remember and I learned about a coin I didnt know about!!!
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