Pam 5 Posted March 1, 2018 Hubby and I are really getting into metal detecting I recently found a 1856 seated Liberty half dollar (s mint) best find so far 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
azdigger 1,424 Posted March 1, 2018 Nice find. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Au Seeker 2,685 Posted March 1, 2018 Welcome to the forum Pam! That's a nice find, it's semi key date coin and would be worth a tidy sum if in better condition, but it's at the very least a $100 coin, could be worth more but hard to tell the actual condition from your photos which are a bit out of focus. Hopefully you haven't cleaned it or you have aiready lost at least 50% of it's value, NEVER clean any old coins, you will lose a lot of value if you do no matter how bad they look when you find them, even wiping the dirt off can sometimes scratch a coin if you're not careful and lessen it's value, leave the cleaning if done at all to the experts and the value will be retained. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pam 5 Posted March 2, 2018 4 hours ago, Au Seeker said: Welcome to the forum Pam! That's a nice find, it's semi key date coin and would be worth a tidy sum if in better condition, but it's at the very least a $100 coin, could be worth more but hard to tell the actual condition from your photos which are a bit out of focus. Hopefully you haven't cleaned it or you have aiready lost at least 50% of it's value, NEVER clean any old coins, you will lose a lot of value if you do no matter how bad they look when you find them, even wiping the dirt off can sometimes scratch a coin if you're not careful and lessen it's value, leave the cleaning if done at all to the experts and the value will be retained. I'm not at all interested in it's monetary value, it's a part of history to me. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Randall 114 Posted March 2, 2018 Welcome to the forum and congrats on finding the 1856 Half! 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cooper 131 Posted March 2, 2018 Howdy Pam.. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mike Furness 1,367 Posted March 2, 2018 Welcome Pam ... and NICE find with the seated liberty half. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nugget Shooter 4,309 Posted March 4, 2018 Wow nice find.... Welcome to the forums. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
