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Excellent find!
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Sorry @crispies, but repeat my comment. Cleaning is a shame.  |
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Giving the coin a mud and rock bath is bound to scratch it up. It's amazing how little of a zincoln cent is left after one Chicago winter on a salted street. Just a grey disc with irregular edges and no recognizable features. Banks won't take them.
"Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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08/15/2024 10:08 pm
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Banks won't take them. Save up a bunch and send them to your congressman  Wait,what was I thinking  John1  |
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The guy's friend found a super sweet coin with a metal detector... why be a debbie downer? The photos are perfectly adequate, and a coin that has been at the mercy of nature should is not expected to look nice and pretty.  |
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a nice find there, I wonder if there are more there  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Environmentally Cleaned. That's a great find! LOL I never knew there were New Orleans "O" Minted dimes.  Thanks for posting this. |
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Environmentally Cleaned. A fair description.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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great find! thanks for sharing it  Edited by mrwiskers
08/16/2024 3:26 pm
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Looks like a cleaned counterfeit tbh. I don't think Barber dimes are supposed to have a Rim Fin like that, and that typical brown "toning" can be seen around the perimeter. |
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Clear this up to everyone crying saying he cleaned it and the one special guy who thinks it's counterfeit. It was never buried, found in a runoff in the oldest park in Omaha, NE. It had rained 10 inches in 30 hours and only had surface mud. So what're you're seeing is almost exactly how it was found. I don't wanna hear anyone's opinion cause there is no opinion to be had. It was found almost exactly like you see. Go watch videos of silver coin enviro finds. There are tons of videos of coins absolutely buried in dirt and coming out almost identical. I don't think this coin was ever under earth, and rather lived most of its life in the runoff. Which again was mostly pea gravel, rocks and boulders. Thanks to everyone who congratulated the find. To those who have their own opinions, good thing it's not even your coin. At the end of the day it's still a dime that was found on the ground.
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That's a really nice find, coinhusker26! I would do cartwheels (well, in my head) if I had made such a score. Pass my congrats on to your friend.
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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I agree it is a nice and very lucky find, and should be appreciated as such. However.. Quote:
There are tons of videos of coins absolutely buried in dirt And I have watched more than a few of them. It is fairly evident to me that most metal detecting folks are clueless about coins. Their first instinct is to rub a dirt covered disc with their thumb to see if they can recognize it. They seldom consider that they may be greatly reducing the value of something potentially rare. There are certainly gentler ways of removing mud from coins. And patience brings rewards. But eagerness to one-up your partner 'out in the field' by guys used to finding belt buckles or old tools where abrasion does not matter so much, usually wins out. /end rant  |
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