New lawn site Made me Cry ! / Possible 1888/8 over 7 UPDATE DEALER SAYS NO 8/7

[MaineRelic]

I saw the landlord raking the lawn of a large apartment building in my neighborhood Today ! This place was built in mid 1800's and I had been eyeing it for a while ! He said go ahead, I don't care if you dig an 8 foot deep hole as long as I fill it in !!! Great ! and thank you I said. Alot of trash ! It is going to take me awhile to clean up this site !! I was surprised I did not pull at least a Rosie out of here in the 3 hours I hunted ! I dug alot of signals and even when I retraced my search route there were still quite a few signals ! Pics of digs follow ! I go back tomorrow ! While I was digging up the lawn a nice woman came out of the building and asked if I collect coins and gave me these 2 cool Canadian Breast cancer awareness Quarters ! I had never seen them before! I thanked her and told her they meant more to me than anything I had found today since my sister died of breast cancer 3 years ago at the tender age of 40 ! I started crying on the spot and now I am crying again as I post this !! Bye MaineRelic. I know the pics say dug Feb 28 but this is wrong ! Forgot 2 change Tag photo date ! Dug today March 12th 2010 MaineRelic. 0 UPDATE: March 13th, Fellow T-net member HCW pointed out to me that my 1888 Indian I found yesterday looked like an 8 over 7. If so it could be a fairly valuable coin ! If it is ! I will try to sell it and donate the proceeds in honor of my sister to Breast cancer research. I will have my coin dealer look at it on Monday MaineRelic. UPdate 03/16/2010 I took the suspect 1888/8 over 7 Indian to my dealer today, at first he was intrigued by the coin but after closer examination he concluded thay it was a pushed date . Probably against a rock by the frost ! He said it just did not have any of the tell tale die anomolies associated with the 8 over 7die ! Just a ood conversation pece! Maybe next time ! MaineRelic

 

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[Gator-Flea]

Re: New lawn site

Looks like a good day to me!!!

 

[detectahead]

Re: New lawn site Made me Cry !

A fine assortment of goodies! The coins look wonderful also! A day to remember

 

[mainer]

Re: New lawn site Made me Cry !

There some good finds there Maine relic. And great story. So sorry for your lose. Best of luck when you go back.

 

[HCW]

Re: New lawn site Made me Cry !

I don't know if you picked up on it or not but that indian head looks like an 1888 over 1887, which in G 4 shape is worth $1100.00 in the 08' red book. I'm sorry about your sister .

 

[GopherDaGold]

Re: New lawn site Made me Cry !

Looks good to me!! You might wanna change your title to bring attention to this! I'm sorry about your sis. Breast cancer took my mother in '05.

 

[cntrydncr1]

Re: New lawn site Made me Cry !

Keep on hitting it!! good hunt!

 

[mainer]

Re: New lawn site Made me Cry !

I would say it is. Never noticed it last night. If it is I say Banner for sure!

 

[MaineRelic]

Re: New lawn site Made me Cry !

I don't know if you picked up on it or not but that indian head looks like an 1888 over 1887, which in G 4 shape is worth $1100.00 in the 08' red book. I'm sorry about your sister .

I usually check every coin I dig for Key dates and mint errors ect... when I get home . But there were so many signals to dig I stayed longer than I should have ! and did not get the honey do's done I should have and the Mrs was a little annoyed when she got home and I was cleaning junk ( as she calls it ) in the sink. So no I did not pick up on the fact that I may have a key date Indian ! Thanks for pointing this out for me ! Now I am Smiling ! MaineRelic.

 

[mainer]

Re: New lawn site Made me Cry !

Sure would be nice to see a fellow Mainer up on that banner board!

 

[MaineRelic]

Re: New lawn site Made me Cry !

Sure would be nice to see a fellow Mainer up on that banner board!

AMEN ! Mainer.

 

[IronSpike]

Re: New lawn site Made me Cry !

Looks like a good site that can be hunted many times over and still produce good finds. The Indian Head is sweet and love the thimble and book pendant

 

[mlayers]

Re: New lawn site Made me Cry ! / Possible 1888/8 over 7 Indian I am not crying now!

That sure is a good spot to detect. I hope you find many more goodies there and keep us posted about the IH hope is 8/7....Matt

 

[Toby1858]

Re: New lawn site Made me Cry ! / Possible 1888/8 over 7 Indian I am not crying now!

Looks like a good possibility, I found an 1888 IH and boy did I try hard to see a 7 under the eight but couldnt! Yours definitly looks suspiciously good to me!!!!

 

[HCW]

Re: New lawn site Made me Cry ! / Possible 1888/8 over 7 Indian I am not crying now!

I hope everything works out.

 

[Brian(upstateNY-Central Fla.)]

Re: New lawn site Made me Cry ! / Possible 1888/8 over 7 Indian I am not crying now!

That sure looks good too me
Very nice finds all around too

 

[dwayne sueno]

Re: New lawn site Made me Cry ! / Possible 1888/8 over 7 Indian I am not crying

great assortment. i like to see error coins on the banner.

 

[Rickiowa2009]

Re: New lawn site Made me Cry ! / Possible 1888/8 over 7 Indian I am not crying now!

Great finds

 

[jgas]

Re: New lawn site Made me Cry ! / Possible 1888/8 over 7 Indian I am not crying now!

I'd say that is a good one, and a great one up on the banner! jgas

 

[Weddle546]

Re: New lawn site Made me Cry ! / Possible 1888/8 over 7 Indian I am not crying now!

Very nice finds! Can someone tell me why the 8/7 happened? now i want to check all the old IH pennies i have. Good luck to you on that coin and everyone on future hunts.