Whats your "Best" Heartbreaker find?

[Iron Patch]

What's your "Best" Heartbreaker find?

Here's one I dug this year and was so pumped to first see the edge and know I had a nice early officer button, but then I moved more dirt aside and seen the hole. On a year that wasn't good to me for buttons the three decent ones I did get were holed, bent, and very rotted. This early Marine button I would have been very happy with, but I'll still take it.

I no doubt have a few more to add if this thread catches on. How about best heartbreaker or also "nitro moment." (nitro is something that raised your heart rate but wasn't quite what you had hoped for)

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[HISPAN]

Re: What's your "Best" Heartbreaker find?

Esta plata española (Real) y más de 20 Reale que un tesoro ....... todos los plateados eran falsas>: (.... este incidente casi me hizo dejar de detectar: '(unos días antes de encontrar mi anillo de oro, primero, por supuesto, que resultó ser de bronce.: banghead:

 

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[testing123]

Re: What's your "Best" Heartbreaker find?

Found this near a playground that almost looks like it was a dumping ground earlier in the 20th century. Saw the glint of gold, but it was caked with dirt. Washed it off expecting to see tarnished areas where the plating had worn off... but it was all gold! Kept washing and saw more and more gold! Had I really found a solid gold pocket watch??

Had it tested at a Pawn shop where the outside tested 10k, but she said it looked gold filled... and after inspecting more closely, it's definitely gold filled.

 

[Worthy55]

Re: What's your "Best" Heartbreaker find?

Nothing like the rest of these cool finds but heartbreakes non the less. 8) 8) 8)

 

[Dirtfan]

Re: What's your "Best" Heartbreaker find?

Found this a few years ago while hunting an old trade site. I wasn't heartbroke until this winter with all the snow I was going through my junk buckets, found it and realized what it was. The center of a Heraldic, Draped bust dime.

 

[Dirtfan]

Re: What's your "Best" Heartbreaker find?

Plehbah. At the time I wasn't much of a coin collector and thought it was foreign. I looked in all my books and couldn't find a match until now. It is really a tiny little thing.

 

[Lt1stone]

Re: What's your "Best" Heartbreaker find?

Here's one; the VID and tone was good, and I saw the edge and part of the eagle sticking out of the plug and thought it was what eludes us all. Still a good find though.

 

[goldencoin]

Re: What's your "Best" Heartbreaker find?

Esta plata española (Real) y más de 20 Reale que un tesoro ....... todos los plateados eran falsas>: (.... este incidente casi me hizo dejar de detectar: '(unos días antes de encontrar mi anillo de oro, primero, por supuesto, que resultó ser de bronce.: banghead:

Translation: "This silver coin (Real) and more than 20 Reales was a treasure......all were silver plated. This almost made me stop metal detectinga few days before finding my gold ring, first, of course, it turned out to be bronze)"

HH
-GC

 

[Diggincoinz]

Re: What's your "Best" Heartbreaker find?

Found this a few years ago while hunting an old trade site. I wasn't heartbroke until this winter with all the snow I was going through my junk buckets, found it and realized what it was. The center of a Heraldic, Draped bust dime.

I'd check that again. It seems to be a Barber Quarter that someone cut down to dime size...ouch! Notice the heraldic design does not have the eagles knees bending up towards the wings. The Barber does, and they did not make barber dimes with the eagle on them. Must be a quarter.

 

[Iron Patch]

Re: What's your "Best" Heartbreaker find?

Found this a few years ago while hunting an old trade site. I wasn't heartbroke until this winter with all the snow I was going through my junk buckets, found it and realized what it was. The center of a Heraldic, Draped bust dime.

I'd check that again. It seems to be a Barber Quarter that someone cut down to dime size...ouch! Notice the heraldic design does not have the eagles knees bending up towards the wings. The Barber does, and they did not make barber dimes with the eagle on them. Must be a quarter.

The banner also connects at the eagle's neck & mouth at a different point. Good call, and not a heartbreaker anymore.

 

[Dirtfan]

Re: What's your "Best" Heartbreaker find?

Very good call diggin. I have the coinworld book and the pics are fuzzy. It's so small I never thought to check the quarters. I'm glad it's not a heartbreaker anymore.

 

[Diggincoinz]

Re: What's your "Best" Heartbreaker find?

Wow it's not even dime size. It's half-dime size

 

[allen]

Re: What's your "Best" Heartbreaker find?

right here is my heartbreaker....
I knew I had the real deal, but
you know how that is !!!