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GOLD COINS

• 
  Dos Pesos
  my first gold coin. its a mexican 2 pesos and its smaller than a half dime. its also been made into an earring. here's the reverse.
  the reverse side

• 1902 Morgan Dollar
  6-04-05 Wow, would never imagine i would get another.

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  1881s Morgan Dollar
  i never thought i was ever gonna dig one of these. there was an old barn in Santa Clara that had been torn down. the land owner said the barn was erected in the '30's. apparently there was something there before that. thanks to some bottle diggers, i found this morgan dollar in the dirt they had left behind. At first i thought it was a large mexican coin, but after cleaning it i could not believe my eyes!reverse

• 1863 half
  this one came from under a 1940's house in San Jose. for some reason this house was built on landfill dirt from the 1860's? A bottle digger told me and a friend the house was recently demolished. my friend(Dan) decided to go home, but i went there instead. only 3 good coins were found there: a 40something dime, an 1865 indian head, and my 1863 half.reverse

  1866s half
  found on monday night 8/20/01 at the corner of santa clara and 4th. asked the bottle diggers if i could search their dirt. found the half and an extremely burnt 1859 indian cent

• 1854w/arrows
  reverse
  i found this one at a demo site in San jose CA, near the SHARKS stadium. currently the site has been turned into a parking lot. before this some of San Jose's oldest home once stood there.

• 1855s
  found this on 7/27/00. my birthday! got this one at the same place the 1861 came from. this place is covered with tall grass, so hunting is hard(and hot!!). the obverse is very worn so the pic is of the back. also in pic is casings and strange bullet.

• 1856
  this was my very first seated qtr. found at an old dump site

• 1860
  sometimes it pays to search dirt piles. i got off work one morning at 6am, drove around and found a large pile of dirt. the dirt had signs of old age-broken glass,pottery and bricks. After about an hour of digging junk, i was ready to give up. then out popped my 3rd seated quarter.

• 1861 obverse
  reverse
  everyone has a secret spot. mine is an old trail located near a creek in the san jose CA area. you have to hike to get to this spot which is probably why its never been hunted before. every time i dig a seated coin, i figure it'll be my last. so i was pretty shocked when this beauty was recovered.

• 1876cc
  this was my second seated quarter found at the same site as the 1856

• --1848--
  found on 9-22-02, this is my oldest US coin to date. found at the site where i found the 1850 dime below.

• Another 1850
  found this on 9-8-02 at construction site in Sj. also in the picture is a 1926 quarter.the reverse
  cleaned up dime

• 1850
  found in/at Niles canyon, CA. Surprisingly i thought the signal was junk since i pinpointed it at a 1/2 inch deep.

• 1853 with arrows
  found this one on 12-30-01here is the reverse
  

• 1854 with arrows
  found this one on 6-27-03, at the "twin pines" park in belmont CA. also pictured are my first civil war type bullets also found there.
  

• 1856
  found on oct. 6 2004, in santa clara.

• 1862s
  found on 4-1-02. this also came from the same exact spot the 1864s came from. the chinese cash came from there also.

• 1864s dime
  found this one on the first day of Jan 01. it came from the site of an old bar up in Niles canyon

• 1872
  another burnt dime. like most of my seated coins it came from an old dump. right next to where i dug this coin, a friend came up got a signal and dug 2 half-dimes('40,'45) right next to me. still have no idea how i missed those.

• 1874
  found this one while bottle digging at about 4 ft down. i was sitting in the hole and was probeing for glass, when i noticed the small circular object.

• 1883dime
  found this one at a site near the S.J. airport. this coin has been altered on the back side, making it a "love token" the obverse has someone's initials etched into it. these were made for a person to give another that he/she loved. found another 1883 love token on 4/7/01. its at the bottom of page

• 1883 love token and 1887s
  found both of these coins on 4/7/01 at the horace mann demo.WOW only my second love token and its the same year as the first!the back says"Adele" incredible yet ANOTHER 1887s dime.obverse

• 1884
  this one also came from the sharks stadium area. on the very corner of an empty lot, faceing the street, was a freshly dug bottle hole. thanks again to bottle diggers for digging this one up and leaving it behind.

• -My 5th 1887 dime-
  i think i found this in sept of 2002. cleaned it using sudsy ammonia. also from same site a month later found the 1888 indian cent in the picture.

• 1887
  found this one in an old dump(now covered with asphalt)that once existed behind the San Jose historical museum.

• 1887s
  this was my 12th seated dime, found on 9/3/99, at a local construction site . also included in this picture are 2 USMC buttons and a USMC pin that i found at the same construction site in San Jose, CA.

• another 1887s
  found this one(10/22/00) at the site of the old Southern Pacific train depot in san jose. the other dime(1909s) was found at Niles canyon.

• 1889 dime
  4-15-03 my first seated with my new DFX. found at demo in SJ, at julian and coleman. also found a reale there too.

• 1890+
  in this pic i scanned some of the seated dimes i found in 2001. the 1890 dime came from a house demo. its ugly lookin'

• 1891
  there was an empty lot in Fremont,CA. every year for 20+years the lot was tilled. in the middle there used to be a small tree. one day i went to the lot and the tree was gone. when i searched the spot, i found probably the best looking coin i've ever found. the pic does'nt show it but this coin is almost flawless.

• 1891 #2
  this one came from another dump site which is now a parking lot.

• 1891 #3
  my 3rd one of this date, this one looks really bad. this was actually the first seated coin i ever found. also that day i found my first seated quarter(1856)!

• love token ring
  close up of oberverse of adele dime. also my first love token ring made from an 1870's french silver coin.

• no date
  this is my second worse looking seated dime. the first one i won't even bother posting.

• 1868 half-dime
  wow, took what seemed like forever to get my first half-dime. got off work one morning and drove down to an old neighborhood near the S.J. SHARKS stadium. i was in luck, one of the sidewalks had been removed! dug 3 zinc cents then, up came this half-dime. also dug an 1863 civil war token about 5 feet away.

• finally dug my second half-dime on 1/20/01 in SJ at a construction site. amazingly this one is only 1 year newer than the first-1869. the pic is with my newest barber Qtr on the barber page