Barber dime error

Screeb741 · August 28, 2017 1:59AM

Looks like it has include lettering on both sides, the reverse is obliterated but I can see the faint 5 on the reverse and the outline of the mexico coat of arms on obverse, it weighs 1.66grams help me out.

Treashunt · August 28, 2017 3:31AM

nothing but a good imagination

Screeb741 · August 28, 2017 4:11AM

I know. I know lol, maybe wishful thinking, but why is it 1.66 grams

JBK · August 28, 2017 8:16AM

Counterfeit?

Screeb741 · August 28, 2017 12:40PM

I can still see flow lines

Screeb741 · August 28, 2017 12:44PM

Of I wanted help with something obvious I would post a 1960 lincoln small over large date/m.m. This requires u to think of the possibility that not everything that looks destroyed is worthless and it possibly, like 1 in 10000000, came out of the mint in that condition. And I don't wanna here it's impossible cuz how the heck do the get plastic struck quarters and dimes struck in the center of a Franklin half.... it happens

morgandollar1878 · August 28, 2017 2:33PM

The dime you are showing in question is merely a worn out coin from being in commerce for 100+ years. At some point in its life with the pitting and scratches it looks like it became a buried coin. It was then located and dug out of the ground. Since the unearthing it was cleaned up so it could be identified as to what it was. The combination of wear and pitting from being from being buried in the dirt would also explain the coin being just more than a touch under weight. It is worth it's weight in silver.