Key Date Seated Liberty Dime

[winslow]

It's been a while since I've found a silver seated coin so I was jazzed to find this dime that was only about one inch deep at what must have been an old campsite I discovered in the woods. There were no nails but lots of deteriorated cans and a few interesting non-ferrous targets. Just the one coin but after clean up I could read the date and see that it was in pretty good condition.

Took the coin to the local coin shop and the guy offered me $450 for it after looking at it for about 10 seconds. Wow! I didn't sell it ...

Included a pic of a few other things found at same place. Not sure what the round silvery looking thing is. It's kind of soft and feels like lead. Maybe a cap to something. Chinese??

In any event this is one of my best value coins that I've ever found so I'm on cloud 9 (make that 10!) right now.

 

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[deershed]

Key date seated in incredible shape, Awesome!!
A big Congrats on this find and WOW on those seated halves.

 

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[park pirate]

Congrats its in very nice condition too...

 

[Trezurehunter]

Congrats on a great looking Seated Dime.

 

[btjbtj]

What a beauty! Envious over here! Congrats. -Lisa & John

 

[DFW_THer]

TOUGH date, made even tougher in that condition. Yeah, incredible save. Has more value than most gold coins that hit the banner, and for that reason, I'm voting banner. Deserves a spot up top.

 

[against the wind]

That is a Beautiful Coin.
Congratulations

 

[villagenut]

Great coin find and pricey at that. I was a bit intrigued by the lead disc though. Looks like it has been cleaned to a shine, but it looks a lot like an old lead disc that I found at a CW camp. Not exactly the same design, but same concept of repeated patterns using same shapes and motif.Can you show the back of it?

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Great find!! I found one myself last year at an old stage stop in California.

HH,
Brian

 

[treblehunter]

Sweet Seated, here is a link to your coin.
https://www.ngccoin.com/coin-explor...1837-1891-pscid-29/1861-s-10c-ms-coinid-14634

Congrats! I'd be stoked.

 

[treblehunter]

Utterly sweet. And don't you love how us west coast guys get all the key date S mints over here ? Who wants boring LC's, colonials, and busts afterall ? ha !

The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, lol