ID impression of coin in lead

[GatorBoy]

Help!
Found metal detecting late 1800's - early 1900's site..could be older.
I can see a reeded edge..also..this is tough because an impression will be reversed.



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[nsdq]

looks like a barber dime to me .. someone make a watch fob ?

 

[Guest 1551]

looks like a barber dime to me .. someone make a watch fob ?

thats what i was thinking. definitely a barber. depending on the size, you'll obviously know which denomination.

 

[GatorBoy]

It's crazy I figured it out probably the same time you guys did after a week of trying I figure it out 10 minutes after I post this thank you pretty neat little thing it has a barber quarter on the other side

 

[GatorBoy]

Now I just need to find the coins that were in it

 

[nsdq]

Neat find..... all i have to find is frozen ground and snow,,, my back up of the dirt floor basement is cleaned out

 

[villagenut]

Pretty cool find there...even without the coins still in it

 

[GatorBoy]

Arrr... I'm a Florida boy I can't take that cold weather this is what I was doing the last couple days



This is the ground in the area I found it thank goodness that's sand and not snow

 

[villagenut]

looks like a 19th century trash pit on the beach.

 

[nsdq]

With that i would take a shifter to the sand looks like a good spot

 

[GatorBoy]

 

[masterjedi]

Maybe used to make counterfeit coins?

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Not from a lead mold. What would melt at a lower temperature than lead? Plastic?

 

[masterjedi]

I'm not sure? I collected counterfeit coins for years when I was in business. I had Morgan Dollars made out of lead.

 

[GatorBoy]

I'm fairly certain now that there were one coin pressed into each side of this piece..making a sort of homemade watch fob or pendant.
The coins were a Barber dime and a Barber quarter.
I believe the coins stayed in the piece while worn by the owner..there is even some tarnish in/on the lead...just need too see if they are on the site now..or taken out before the piece was lost or discarded.

 

[GatorBoy]

 

[duggap]

Maybe used to make counterfeit coins?

I found one for a half dollar dated 1893. I came back years later and found the rest. I now have both pieces of the two piece mold and five of the coins he counterfeited. I think Charlie Harris did an article in American Digger and he put a picture of them in there. Sorry I don't know how to upload pictures.

 

[coinman123]

I think that it was a pendent or fob too, the coins would have stayed in there but it fell out. Very cool find.

Coinman123,

 

[GatorBoy]

Thanks..definitely different