1805 Draped Bust Dime - A "Forensic Investigation"

[KYshooter]

1805 Draped Bust Dime - A "Forensic Investigation"

Does it Have a Twin?

In my post last week about my 1805 dime ( http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,378235.0.html ) that I discovered on January 24, a couple of posters suggested that the circular stain impression on my coin looks like the impring of an adjacent coin, and inquired if I had rechecked my hole.

Here is the coin ...

Poster coltdavis highlighted the apparent imprint here ...

In response, I commented that the only coin small enough to make such an impression would be a Spanish Half-reale.

Yesterday, I suddenly remembered that I had a half-Reale in a container of coins that belonged to my grandfather ... it actually had a silver "shank" added for use as a button at one time.

So ... I got the coin and took this series of photographs, combined them in sequence, and can only come to one conclusion ...

It looks like a match to me. I believe, with almost complete "scientific" certainty, that there was once a half-reale buried with this coin. I just can't find it! I have hunted that spot and fifty yards downhill from it from two different directions.

But, rest assured, I am going to keep looking!

 

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[treasurepirate1]

Re: 1805 Draped Bust Dime - A "Forensic Investigation"

remember back then there coins were not perfect sometimes the canter was out a bit further than the edge and from use of handling and putting the coin a tables, only the center was exposed to wear cosing the tarnish in the aria not exposed to stay. and and also looking closer the right side of the coin has a bad dent this dent may have coused the center to warp cosing the affect i just explained. i hope this helps to solve this mystery.
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Re: 1805 Draped Bust Dime - A "Forensic Investigation"

remember back then there coins were not perfect sometimes the canter was out a bit further than the edge and from use of handling and putting the coin a tables, only the center was exposed to wear cosing the tarnish in the aria not exposed to stay. and and also looking closer the right side of the coin has a bad dent this dent may have coused the center to warp cosing the affect i just explained. i hope this helps to solve this mystery.

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Interesting ... but it's not warped at all. Perfectly flat. And thin.

 

[treasurepirate1]

Re: 1805 Draped Bust Dime - A "Forensic Investigation"

this is my 1906 Canada 25 cent coin that has the same affect as yours, i also looked for a slight curve on my coin but none visible, my guess it the hight difference is very minuscule but can still cause the affect both of us are seeing. But it is still possible there could have been a coin in the same hole. hope this helps