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Here's a pretty dug Seated dime...
lordmarcovan
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Came out nice in the original pix, too, but I crunched the filesize down and now the image is grainy. Oh, well.
You gotta admit it's a beauty for a dug one.
No, I didn't find it personally, but I bought it from the relic hunter who did. He dug it several years ago at the site of one of the biggest antebellum rice plantations in the area, along the Butler River here. I once had an opportunity to hunt the same site, and was all keyed up because somebody else had recently found a Seated half.
All I got for my troubles there was the worst case of chiggers ever. (Redbugs). My lower legs still carry the scars, some three or four years later.
Sure, that's probably secondary toning on the coin, as it was likely to have been cleaned after it was found. That's just the way it is with detector finds. But I have noticed many of the coins I dug and subsequently cleaned ten or twelve years ago have picked up some nice secondary toning in my album. That's probably what happened here. While the toning isn't exactly "original", you couldn't quite call it "artificial", either, I suppose, since it happened naturally over time. Whatever the case, it's a nice look.
You gotta admit it's a beauty for a dug one.
No, I didn't find it personally, but I bought it from the relic hunter who did. He dug it several years ago at the site of one of the biggest antebellum rice plantations in the area, along the Butler River here. I once had an opportunity to hunt the same site, and was all keyed up because somebody else had recently found a Seated half.
All I got for my troubles there was the worst case of chiggers ever. (Redbugs). My lower legs still carry the scars, some three or four years later.
Sure, that's probably secondary toning on the coin, as it was likely to have been cleaned after it was found. That's just the way it is with detector finds. But I have noticed many of the coins I dug and subsequently cleaned ten or twelve years ago have picked up some nice secondary toning in my album. That's probably what happened here. While the toning isn't exactly "original", you couldn't quite call it "artificial", either, I suppose, since it happened naturally over time. Whatever the case, it's a nice look.
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Jerry
http://cgi.ebay.com/1875-Carson-City-Fine-Seated-Dime-CC-Inside-Bow_W0QQitemZ310033889827QQihZ021QQcategoryZ11958QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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I think I have this one priced at seventy-something.
Sorry...I don't know the lingo :-( -->bodybagged< ??
Jerry
"Bodybagged" is grading service lingo for returned without a grade. PCGS (our forum host) will not grade a "problem" coin, which in the case of the 1876 dime above was an old cleaning. They return the coin without grading or slabbing it, and you kiss your fees goodbye. But since I paid for the photo, and the photos are done before grading and encapsulation, I got the picture, which is all I wanted anyway. "Problem" or not, it was a lovely coin.