Of all places to find an 1850 one dime!
LATHYRUS21
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Just about half a mile beliw the Folsom State Prison, I was crevicing for gold and imrealdeep into a hole now then all ofthe sudden rolls out this black coin...took it tothe water and about (cra#÷×) my pants when I could make out the date
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Now that’s an awesome find! Makes one wonder if it was lost by someone doing what you are doing nearly 170 years earlier.
Idea. Replace where you found it with a 2019 dime.
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Wow... what an amazing find....I wonder how long that dime was 'lost'....Cheers, RickO
Coins like these one should always value more under the circumstances to which they are found. The story is priceless, and it is the kind of thing that gets the imagination moving at a rabid pace.
Congrats
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Dropped by a prospector, found by a prospector. Nice!
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That is an awesome find.
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That's a really cool find!
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Very cool!
Nice! Like the dime and the gold. If I had to choose the gold would win.
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No doubt FINDING this Dime set my imagination running. I've been researching the Folsom history heavily the last 2 years... From Black Bart to My Family photos of my Grandfather standing Mormon Island, the town which once stood where folsom Lake now covers... I really do wonder when it as dropped.. I certainly do have a priceless collection now... This dime goes perfect with the old steel railroad spike, and shovel head I have also found just this year.
I'll add the pic of the shovel later. I found 3 this year. One in the Mohovi desert and we'll preserved because of the dry air.
AND REALLY!! THAT MUST HAVE BEEN A WHOLE WEEKS WAGES THAT WAS LOST!!!
That's a heck of a find. I found a dime in my sofa cushions once. The date on it was 1992. It had dried up cheese stains on it.
That's history right there!
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There went his night on the town in 1850. Congratulations on a great find.
Maybe they also lost their seated dollar pocket piece, or the 12 gram gold nugget they found.
Congrats on the nice find! I found an 1876-S in AU sitting in shallow water along the bank at Herrick Lake, IL when I was a kid.
Cool find!
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Very cool. POTD!
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That Dime is very well worn.....so it wasn't "lost" that long ago. It took years and years to get worn to that state. Sorry to be a downer.
That's cool.
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There are a number of areas in that part of California that once had small towns etc that are long gone. My great grandmother was born in Michigan Bar which was in eastern Sacramento county. I would love to go through those town sites with a detector - would be a lot of work though as a lot of them were wiped out with hydraulic mining in the 19th century.
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