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lordmarcovan
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Looks like your typical eBay picture, huh?
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
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Popped it out of the dirt this afternoon.
Here's the post-cleaning pic.
The least attractive of my four Seated dimes found, but it has been a long, long time since I dug any Seated silver. Probably six or seven years.
The scratches were already in the coin.
Usually the silver comes outta the ground nice and bright, but this one was totally oxidized. A real booger to clean. Oh well.
This is my eighth piece of Seated silver and my fourth Seated dime.
The others are:
Half dimes1854 (holed, was bent double when I found it- I straightened it)1854 (also holed, but otherwise a nice looking VF-ish coin)18?? (also holed, no date, is a With Stars type)(All my half dimes are holed, including the one Bust coin I've found, an 1829).Dimes1839 (found same site as this)1862 (decent VG-ish coin, found near an 1873 Shield nickel)1877-S (today's find- my first mintmarked Seated coin found)1884 (my first Seated silver, and a nice one)Quarters1855 w/arrowsHalvesOne day, I hope!DollarsIf I dug a Seated dollar you'd have to hospitalize me.
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
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<< <i>How do you clean them? >>
Sometimes they come out so nice you can just zap 'em with a little liquid soap and water and stick 'em in the finds album. Usually they need toothpaste, though. For the tougher ones, I use baking soda. Now, if that hasn't scared hell out of you yet, lemme tell you about this one- I used -*gasp* a brass wire brush and THEN baking soda, and it took me about an hour to clean it! Those scratches did not result from my wire brush, though.
This is a coin I would flee in terror from if I saw it offered on eBay for four dollars. But it made my day- heck, my whole week - and I wouldn't trade it for an UNC. Really. I don't sell my dug coins. I go out and sweat for them, and get poison ivy and bug bites and sandspurs and dirt under my fingernails. They're too precious to me, sentimentally. I do periodically sell coins my buddies dug. This, for instance. If I had dug it I would never, never, never have sold it.
I just got a new detector after my trusty 12-year-old machine died last fall. I've had it two days. Have found a toy car, two pieces of costume jewelry, four Memorial cents, and this. It was the only coin that turned up today (I found the Memorials the other night). Funny thing is, I haven't even found a clad dime with the new detector yet.
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
Not unless they spent the last 120 years or so in your backyard, and are totally crusty.
Sometimes, with dug stuff, cleaning is a necessary evil.
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
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<< <i>How do you clean them? >>
Sometimes they come out so nice you can just zap 'em with a little liquid soap and water and stick 'em in the finds album. Usually they need toothpaste, though. For the tougher ones, I use baking soda. Now, if that hasn't scared hell out of you yet, lemme tell you about this one- I used -*gasp* a brass wire brush and THEN baking soda, and it took me about an hour to clean it! Those scratches did not result from my wire brush, though.
This is a coin I would flee in terror from if I saw it offered on eBay for four dollars. But it made my day- heck, my whole week - and I wouldn't trade it for an UNC. Really. I don't sell my dug coins. I go out and sweat for them, and get poison ivy and bug bites and sandspurs and dirt under my fingernails. They're too precious to me, sentimentally. I do periodically sell coins my buddies dug. This, for instance. If I had dug it I would never, never, never have sold it.
I just got a new detector after my trusty 12-year-old machine died last fall. I've had it two days. Have found a toy car, two pieces of costume jewelry, four Memorial cents, and this. It was the only coin that turned up today (I found the Memorials the other night). Funny thing is, I haven't even found a clad dime with the new detector yet. >>
Why'd you sell your friends coin that he found? I personally would've kept it, that's pretty cool to have something like that.
Also, I know you like holey money. But is it just a coinincide that most of the coinage you dig up has holes already in them? Or do you put those holes in them for your trusty hat?
It's no coincidence that a lot are holed, because it was a very common practice in the days before the Civil War.
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
At least that's what it looks like.
Ray
Gee, I wonder....
Nice find. I don't have a metal detector. Though there'd probably be nothing to find over where I live.
Bet y'all wouldn't be congratulatin' me on the "nice find" if I'd bought that off eBay.
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.