OMG!!! You won't believe this! My first silver coin is worth THOUSANDS!!!!

 [hello]Okay fellas, believe it or not, I recently dug up an 1870 "CC" Seated Liberty Half Dollar. When i found it, i only knew it was a Seated Liberty Half as i didn't want to clean it in the field. Anyway, after doing the "happy dance" for a awhile I headed home to rinse it off and do some research. I knew the seated liberty halves could fetch a few hundred dollars in good shape, so i really was happy as a pig in poop with that. Then while doing some reading i came across the statement "of particular interest to collectors is the rare 1870 Carson City Seated Half.....". Now my hearts beating a tad faster, because after cleaning the mud off it IS an 1870...but what the hell is the Carson City mean?? So after some more googling I find that Carson City was a mint and coins minted there will have a small "CC" on the reverse. Holy !!!!...no friggin way...there it is, right under the eagle's talons..."CC". So now, with my heart really beating and a !!!! eatin' grin on my face, i'm back on Google searching for the value of this coin. OH MY GOD! Never in a million years did i think i could find a single coin worth what this one is. I mean previous to this, i was hoping to find a gold ring worth a couple hundred bucks. I know most of you are going to believe this coin is a fake, or I'm a liar..but rest assured i am not a liar and I've already had an authorized PCGS agent look at it and confirm that he thought it was genuine. Enough so that he offered me 5 grand! Besides, the coin has been sent off to Heritage Auctions so I'll have the proof and the check soon.  

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Fantastic find. Best get out there and check that area some more, lol. Thanks for the post and photos.

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Well I at least received an e-mail today confirming that Heritage has gotten the coin. I was sent a couple documents to sign digitally. Unfortunately no real update yet...hasn't been to the grader. But I do know this much:
"Your consignment to the 2012 August 2-3 US Coins Signature Auction- Philadelphia will be held on August 02, 2012 in Philadelphia, PA. The catalog for this auction will be mailed on July 14, 2012. Your settlement check will be mailed September 17, 2012".
So apparantly it's already passed the authenticity test. I really hope it ends up going to NCS as I think it's eye appeal could be enhanced by some type of permissable cleaning. I mean I really did no cleaning to it all, other than a rinse and dry. This coin is not corroded like other coins I've dug....no pitting, or grunge adhered... it's basically just tarnished. ....it would be a shame if this gets no grade but "environmental damage".


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Good deal Joe and I think you did the right thing by not trying to clean it. Hope you make a bundle off it.

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Hello Joe...I looked at this coin on another forum were you posted it, I also witnessed the appalling way that you were treated there by some of the seiner members, and I'm ashamed to say by one particular member from the UK I would have replied there but unfortunately I have been banned from using that site for six months

But you found a real gem of a coin, and probably a lot of them just jealous that they never found it...Great Find, hope you get mega bucks for it.

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