Well, that's just the thing. My dad kept ALL of the finds that I made during the late 70's and most of the 80's.
Somewhere in my posts a week or so back, I made a comment about cleaning coins.
That's what started this error coin hunt.
My pops was about condition. We all know that silver and especially copper come out with a little and a lot of dirt on them.
Because I knew never to clean coins, the pockets full of silver that I would find daily, were never looked at until recently.
My dad's ghost is going to go full on poltergeist!
I've been cleaning up all of those coins that were just caked with dirt and grime.
I found that mercury dime metal detecting and I know that without any doubt because of the embarrassing X scratched into the reverse of the coin.
My brothers also detected and dad would store their coins too.
Since I was so young and dumb and my brothers were laying claim to my finds... I started scratching an X onto every coin that I found! Doh!!
You don't even want to see the coins that I dug that look like they were dropped the day that they were minted!! That have either a tiny x or a big X or both!
I was eight years old!.
So yeah, I found that coin.
In my excitement of looking at my coins after cleaning some up and discovering some of those errors, I went to the bank and got some of dad's nickels and started going through those.
I didn't mean to mix them up.
More importantly, I didn't want to admit that I cleaned dug coins and betrayed my pops. He was diligent.
So yeah, without your direct contribution and my wife's insistence that I not be negative and ask if these are anything other than the melt coins that I thought they were.
Your experience and knowledge of these coins literally found and saved these errors.
That's why I want to include you Frank.
Mike.
