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In general, proof dimes have a very fat, crisp rim, so they stick out. Unless they have been going around for years like the 70 S I found a few months back. You have to check the mintmark to find those, they don't just stick out like NIFC halves do. Even if it is as new looking as a 2014 P dime, you still have to check the mintmark to see if it is a P, D, or S proof. You must be doing it wrong if you are not checking each coin. Just sayin'. |
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Well, now I understand you are just being funny, as we were originally discussing edge searching for silver, you changed the discussion to proof coins and date searching. I normally don't date search.
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
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08/31/2014 2:36 pm
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My younger daughter spent several of my clad proofs a while back; oh well I should've put them up so she....  Fist, I am fascinated by this story,how old was she and what did she spend the dimes on ?  What was your reaction when you found out ? |
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Fist, I am fascinated by this story,how old was she and what did she spend the dimes on ? What was your reaction when you found out ? It was just last year, she was nine. I was a little annoyed, but surely not upset...she searches cents for wheats, and is filling her Whitman folders. I have thousands of US coins that I keep, but normally I don't keep the clad proof or NIFC halves, as I've found hundreds. Proof dimes OTOH, aren't as easy to find and seeing how they were just the clad proof and not my silver proofs, doesn't bother me much. When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
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Fascinating stuff , glad to hear they weren`t your most prized proofs  |
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@fistfulladirt when you say oldest dug in your sig do you mean with a metal detector right where did you find it
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@rupp16 - yes I dug the 1758 in an old farmyard in southern Michigan, a very worn old coin.
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so what kind of places do you look for
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Metal detecting: old sites, places where people frequent(ed). Doing a little research on local history might help you identify places to look. One favorite of mine is locating where the old bath-houses were at the local swimming holes. Many were nothing more than decks with small changing rooms where stuff fell through the cracks never to be seen again...until they moved the houses and detecting became a hobby.
I would find old rings, necklaces, coins, and of course, pull top soda can rings (other junk). But many older coins and silver was to be had back in the day. I suspect that there are plenty of buried 'treasures' still to be gained.
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as we were originally discussing edge searching for silver As Tonto said to the Lone Ranger, "What is this WE crap white man?" I never discuss edge searching because I don't do it. I check every coin date and mintmark. Quote:
you changed the discussion No, YOU changed the discussion because you read something into my post that I never said, that assumed I did anything like you do. Well you are wrong. Don't assume someone else does the things the same way you o and try reading their post int he future for what they do say. Twisting someones words because you fail to read what they write really ticks me off anywhere it happens. In a forum you have the text there to read, so read it correctly? In the future don't infer your own methods to be those as the same as someone else, nor the reasons they CRH. |
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Take a chill pill my friend.
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so what kind of places do you look for @rupp16 We can move this to the Metal Detecting Forum, I'd be happy to talk about it there. When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
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fistfulladirt it is actually hard for me to say how much coin I am searching annually because the only denomination I actually track in cents. So far I have searched over 300.000 pennies. All the non-savable coins have been used to buy and search other rolled coin.
From time to time I pick up additional rolls and sometimes boxes and again the dregs of these go back to bank to purchase additional coin. That's why it had for me to give a number for all the coins that I search on an annual basis. It's really a haphazard system of searching on the cheap. The biggest thing is to get the dregs back to the bank so I can get more coins without busting the household budget. Churning is the key for me.
I know how many copper, Canadian, 1982, and wheat back pennies I've found. But I also save a lot of different coins depending upon that hits me at the time.
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