1875-S Seated Liberty Dime

[doyboy]

Hey, guys, I decided to go on a short hunt today. Blitz and Zoyboy were going on a scouting mission, or so they told me they were going to. The 2 boys missed out on this one! Well, I decided to go to the large park in town. I found 3 Indian Head cents here earlier in the year, so I knew there was more to be found. My 1st find was a button that read at "Nickel". It was 3 inches deep. It has a small loop(shank) on the back of it. It looks to be late 1800s-early 1900s.

After the button, I found a few newer coins which I tossed into the bushes. About 2 hours into my hunt, I decided to hit another area of the park. This area showed a lot of promise. I was swinging my detector along a row of trees when I got a nice reading. The signal read at "Dime", but a small piece of trash near it made the signal not totally "smooth" sounding. It pinpointed at 4", so this one showed promise! I got down on my knee, dug a small hole, and placed the dirt on a towel. After that, I put my Vibra Probe over the dug-out dirt - that was when I saw the silver edge of a coin. I picked it up and wiped a little dirt off of it, and that was when I saw what I had found. It was an 1875-S Seated Liberty dime! I now have 3 Seated Liberty dimes this year (1854, 1875, 1875-S) !

So, Blitz and Zoyboy, am I an idiot for doing this park? Blitz and Zoyboy's words, "You are wasting your time." Ha ha ha, not bloody likely!

Big Bsco, you are catching me on the Indian Heads! I still have 41!

 

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[stud564]

nice find.

 

[mlw67]

Sweet dime! Way to go.

 

[Rusted_Iron]

There is nothing quite like seeing silver peeking out from the soil... especially when it's older silver like a Barber or a seated.

Just goes to show, it doesn't hurt to follow your instincts when picking a place to hunt.

 

[bazinga]

Congrats on that nice seated dime! I've only got one so far this, an 1876 in XF to AU. But I might be able to catch you there as my buddy has quite a few mid 1800s house sites locked in for some hunting once the fields get plowed.

41-37... My finds for today made it interesting!

 

[Boobydoo]

Congrats on the great old dime!
Your perseverance paid off. Well done.

Smiles!
BDoo

 

[Rodog]

Very nice dime. I've gotta get out more. Season is ending fast.

 

[scoutjim99]

Great find . there are two varieties listed in th Red Book. Total mintage includes 9,070,000. listed as Variety 4. And Wlater Breen list $ Varieties for that date/ and mintmark i cant see the photos well enough to attribute for you

 

[Detectingfreak]

Nice job on the old seated dime!!!!

 

[mxtswinger]

AWESOME! Keep up the fine work.

 

[funkman]

Congrats on the dime doyboy. I'm still waiting on pulling one of those outta the ground.

Funkman

 

[doyboy]

Here is another pic of the reverse.

 

[Michigan Badger]

Congrats of the dime find. Back in the early 80's I figured the most likely old coin find in parks would be the dime. I bought the deepest machine of that day and hunted following a chalk line. Everybody said that park was hunted out and worthless. I took about 7 or 8 beautiful Barber Dimes and maybe 20 Mercs out of an area not much more than 20x30 feet.

My point is this, I think the number one great find anywhere in the U.S. today is still the dime. Today's deep machines can get a solid signal on them at that 5 to 9 inch level where most are today.

I'm mostly a relic hunter but if I wanted coins I'd take a super deep machine into the oldest/biggest and most "hunted out" city parks I could find and hunt slowly following a line. I'm sure there are many seated and bust dimes to be found.

Using this method would also yield some $1 gold pieces if the discrimination where set low enough.

Badger

 

[doyboy]

Picture of obverse.

 

[JerV3]

Nice dime doyboy.

HH Jer

 

[Proolio]

very nice coin. way to go