1923 Mercury with a strange "bump defect

[Tenspeed]

1923 Mercury with a strange "bump' defect

I normally just visit and drool over all the neat finds, but I found something different this week and thought I would ask for opinions on a strange dime.

I was hunting in Charlotte last week at a pretty good site and found two silver (1929 Standing Liberty Quarter (a first for me), 1923 Mercury dime), a crusty, holed large cent (also a first, soaking in olive oil trying to verify it is truly a large cent), 4 Wheaties (1920, 1944 x 2, 1951D), typical clad and memorials, this heart pendant, and several other relics.

When I found the SLQ, I knew it was a quarter and was 6" deep, but didn't get my hopes up because a clad quarter had come out at 6" about 100 feet away. It was so nice to get this first out of the way. I have always watched other hunters find these.

The 1923 Mercury was also about 6" deep and it was also nice to see the silver in the hole. When I was looking at the dime today, I notice an oval raised area in front of the nose on the obverse. This area is matched on the back side with a raised area in the same location. Has anyone seen this before? Could there have been a defect in the blank or die?

Any help on the dime would be appreciated.

I have also attached pictures of an unusual Walking Liberty half dollare I found last year. It was found in Mississippi and was about 6" deep when found. Obviously it was shot and lost some time ago.

Thanks for looking!

Sorry about the image size!! First time to post photo's.

 

[mike w]

Re: 1923 Mercury with a strange "bump' defect

it was shot.

 

[DigginThePast]

Re: 1923 Mercury with a strange "bump' defect

Tenspeed - I re-sized your pics. I don't think anyone saw the Merc the way the pics were showing. I didn't even see it until I went to re-size.

Neat finds.

Welcome to T-Net.

 

[Mr Tuff]

Re: 1923 Mercury with a strange "bump' defect

sweet silver!!!!! MR TUFF

 

[Diggin-N-Dumps]

Re: 1923 Mercury with a strange "bump' defect

Cool Stuff!!

 

[Tenspeed]

Re: 1923 Mercury with a strange "bump' defect

Tenspeed - I re-sized your pics. I don't think anyone saw the Merc the way the pics were showing. I didn't even see it until I went to re-size.

Neat finds.

Welcome to T-Net.

Thanks for the help with resizing! I thought files less than 100k in size would be too small to see detail.

Now that we are getting some rain and the ground is not a brick, hopefully I can find a few things to post.

 

[pepperj]

Re: 1923 Mercury with a strange "bump' defect

Cool bump on the Merc., the half has character

 

[XPress2]

Re: 1923 Mercury with a strange "bump' defect

Maybe that's her witches nose, lol... or shy is lying about something?

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Re: 1923 Mercury with a strange "bump' defect

Good Silver

 

[Erik in NJ]

Re: 1923 Mercury with a strange "bump' defect

It looks like some debris (machine part) made of steel or something hard got caught between the dies and damaged them as opposed to a flawed planchette. I'm not sure what this is called or if it's considered to be a die clash error. I found a Merc where you could see traces of the reverse on the obverse of the coin. Was told it was a die clash error. Nice find!

 

[1235CE]

Re: 1923 Mercury with a strange "bump' defect

nice finds, yes, definitely a mint error of some sort on the Merc......also, the Standing Liberty quarter was painted red at some point long ago.

My uncle used to own a bar with a jukebox and he painted some quarters red because if a bar patron said that they put a quarter in the jukebox and the song didn't play he would give them a red quarter to put in and try again.

When the vending machine guy would come and empty the quarters once a week my uncle would get all of his red ones back. I've see plenty of red Washingtons, never a Standing Liberty, pretty neat stuff.....

HH all!

Greg

 

[Blind Squirrel]

Re: 1923 Mercury with a strange "bump' defect

Good finds !!! Welcome to Tnet

 

[Potter Poker]

Re: 1923 Mercury with a strange "bump' defect

Strange about the bump, might be a stamping error, check it out with a good coin dealer!

 

[HISPAN]

Re: 1923 Mercury with a strange "bump' defect

Nice coins ..... congrats !
welcome to t.net forum !!!!!

 

[ddjames]

Re: 1923 Mercury with a strange "bump' defect

Great finds and thanks for posting the photos. That is an interesting 23. Let us know if you find anything special out about it

 

[filthyflyer39]

Re: 1923 Mercury with a strange "bump' defect

we've found some pennies just like that one. one of my dads friends said him and his friends liked using coins for targets, so that's probably what happened to yours as well. our pennies still had part of the bullet in them too

 

[Skelly607]

Re: 1923 Mercury with a strange "bump' defect

it was shot.

Ditto.