A FUGLY keeper

[diamondjim]

Another useless day of chasing down impossible sites...getting tough these days to find any new places less than 30 feet deep in landfill.

Had a an hour left of daylight so I dropped in to one of my favorite haunts hoping for another injun, something, anything. Ready to give up there too I got a nice soft penny tone...cool. Just about dark and I spot this little black disk in the hole. Turns to be one FUGLY 1903 dime...a face only a mother could love. Not much, but better than going home empty handed.

 

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[roswellborn]

Hey! It's silver!

Sounds like a good save on a long (frustrating) day!

HH
Nan

 

[bootybay]

hey i would be thrilled with that find..silvers silver..wtg..

 

[jeff of pa]

I'v seen Much Worse. Congrats ! Great Find



Yes that's a '98 Barber Quarter, From Fill Dirt. Probably from a Driveway.

 

[Don in SJ]

That actually is not too bad for a Barber dime, but I do think it hurts more to see silver like Jeff's in a condition like that than it does a bad copper. Copper you almost expect it, Silver you want to come out of the ground like the day it was dropped. (Minus fire damage)

I have the coin somewhere, and I don't think I ever photographed it, but it is a Mercury Dime that looks like it shrank, in both thickness and diameter! The coin is paper thin, if I can locate it in my collection area, I will weigh it and take a pic for all to see.

What did the damage, I guess the junk in the water of the Delaware Bay, not quite sure, since never got one like it before from Ocean beach hunting........

But as Nan and Bootybay both indicated, be happy , it is still silver and there are much worst out there!

Don

 

[birdman]

I'll take it!!!

 

[allen]

ugly or not, still a 100 yearold piece of silver...nice

 

[diamondjim]

Now now jeff, didn't mean to set suggest this was the worst barber of all time...although a contest for worst silver does sound like fun....I got this seated Q that's incurably brown and badly pitted, would make the hardiest MDer cry.

I'm just getting frustrated, I have all these old sites that look great on paper...get there and the land is hopelessly screwed up. It's been a long a dry spell since I turned a new old site...I don't even dig that many barbers cause the sites I'm hunting for are all too old for them. My whole focus lately has been to turn up a new site, so going home with just one dime from a site I already knew about isn't exactly what I set out to do. It's not even about what I dig, if I could locate a new old site and go home with just rusty iron relics that would be cool...at least I'd have something to show for my efforts. Lately every site has been buried in recent trash, can't even begin to unravel the history of the places.

 

[Boobydoo]

Fugly but beautiful, congrats!!