✅ SOLVED Modified SILVER COIN--Help ID!

[BuckleBoy]

Hello All,

My buddy dug this flattened silver item, and when we started looking at it closely--we could tell that it was once a coin. Can you help ID what type of coin it once was?




Thanks in advance,

Buck

 

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[BuckleBoy]

Seems to be a good size chunk of metal, not enough to be a dime or half dime...
So....is there enough metal for it to be a half dollar?....

Shanegalag, plz post the dimensions. Just measure the longest and shortest sides of it.

 

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[Deftone]

As for the other side. With the big E.. I dunno. The half dollar had arrows I think.

 

[shanegalang]

Here ya go.

 

[mcl]

View attachment 1391927 As for the other side. With the big E.. I dunno. The half dollar had arrows I think.

..Maybe? If you have some imagination and account for skewing from flattening...:

 

[Deftone]

..Maybe? If you have some imagination and account for skewing from flattening...:

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Hey my imagination still has it as a dime.

 

[mcl]

Hey my imagination still has it as a dime.

The last thing I read was "half dollar" -- I just follow directions.

 

[Deftone]

I only posted that for the arrow theory. Keep up.

 

[mcl]

I only posted that for the arrow theory. Keep up.

but i'm tired..

 

[BuckleBoy]

..Maybe? If you have some imagination and account for skewing from flattening...:

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I'm even more convinced, if the arrow is indeed there. Shanegalang, can you see the arrow?

 

[redbeardrelics]

..Maybe? If you have some imagination and account for skewing from flattening...:

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Very nice graphics, and they make a very compelling possibility. The large number or letter on other side, could potentially be from the item this "coin" was flattened against, rather than from the coin itself, since it seems to stand up prouder from the current surface than any of the other stars, arrows, or numbers seem to be?

 

[DCMatt]

Very nice graphics, and they make a very compelling possibility. The large number or letter on other side, could potentially be from the item this "coin" was flattened against, rather than from the coin itself, since it seems to stand up prouder from the current surface than any of the other stars, arrows, or numbers seem to be?

If from the "item the 'coin' was flattened against", wouldn't the images of the number and letter be in reverse?

 

[shanegalang]

Hey my imagination still has it as a dime.

Man what va great photo collage! Thank you sir for the effort and helping solve this! Merry Christmas!

 

[Deftone]

And a Merry Christmas to you and yours.

 

[mcl]

Man what va great photo collage! Thank you sir for the effort and helping solve this! Merry Christmas!

You're welcome. Gotta use my graphics.. uh.. "talent".. for something.

 

[BigWaveDave]

This has been one of the best "find/mystery threads" of the year.....
Got me hanging on every post.....
Tnet rocks.

 

[DCMatt]

I think it is an 1853, 54, or 55 Seated Dime or Half Dime as they have the arrows by the date.

Here is a comparison of the area just above the arrow next to the date:



The 'E' or 'F' on the back could only be from one of those coins.

 

[mcl]

I think it is an 1853, 54, or 55 Seated Dime or Half Dime as they have the arrows by the date.

I think you're right on this one. I found another element of the obverse design that helps confirm it. I noticed that the three stars from OP's flattened coin have a specific rotation/orientation. The half dime and dime seem to have identical rotation angles for each of the three stars, from the top left star to the middle to bottom right of the three stars the angles are: about 15 degrees to the right, about 30 degrees to the right, and about -20 to -25 degree to the left. The same angles for the half dollar are completely different: about 15 degrees to the left, about 0 degrees (middle rays point straight up and straight down), and about 15 degrees to the right.

I traced the angles for the three stars separately for each coin and made an image overlay to compare each. The half-dime and dime (orange and red lines) are basically right on top of each other, and the half dollar (purple line) goes off on its own. The angles from OP's coin, even with all the distortion that's been done to it, closely match the angles of the dime and half dime in a way that seems unlikely to be coincidence.

Therefore, while the previous "transform" image I posted was helpful, the more accurate ID is either dime or half dime with arrows from one of the corresponding years.

See my demonstration of this below, if you want:

 

[Deftone]

Just throwing this in. Just what I thought was left of the hand on the shield and such. In case nobody saw it.

 

[mcl]

Just throwing this in. Just what I thought was left of the hand on the shield and such. In case nobody saw it.

Wouldn't the "thumb" be going the wrong way if that was the case? As in, it's on the wrong side of your "hand".

 

[Deftone]

The thumb side. Sheesh.