mtntrekr2
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- Location
- berks county, pa.
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- Excalibur II 1000, Xterra-70 x3, Garret ace 250,
I work in a brick yard. My job is running the grinding room where
the dirt is ground for the mud to make the brick. There are
magnets on the conveyor belts to pick out any iron. Each day I
clean the magnets off and have found everything from horse shoes
to harness buckles and even an old hand forged ax head. I have
found several knockouts from electrical boxes dropped on the floor
and swept up by the next guy, shoveled up and sent out to us to
run back thru with the rest of the scrap brick. I always keep a 10x
mag. in my pocket. Who knows what I might find next. I have
found several coins on the belts when stopped and I am killing
time with my Bullseye PP. Yes it is never far away same goes for
the Ace 250. You never know when the chance arrives to have
some fun.
Back to the find.
First is was stuck to the magnet. My thought another knockout.
I rinsed it off and as you can see it is the size of a quarter.
Actually I held it with a quarter and they are the same size. But
larger than a nickel.
It is very bent no doubt from going thru the grinders. If you look
close it looks like a square bar thru the middle.
The head outline is visible.
]
The strange thing is it was stuck to the magnet. Now for the really
good part. It is a nickel. The word Monticello is plainly seen on
the back and other rim lettering is exactly where it would be on
the nickel. Some how this mangled coin got hammered out but
retained its identity. A 2003 P and yes the weight is 77.2 grains a
quarter is 88 grains. Sorry about the blurry pics but camera is old
and needs to be replaced along with these shakey hands.
the dirt is ground for the mud to make the brick. There are
magnets on the conveyor belts to pick out any iron. Each day I
clean the magnets off and have found everything from horse shoes
to harness buckles and even an old hand forged ax head. I have
found several knockouts from electrical boxes dropped on the floor
and swept up by the next guy, shoveled up and sent out to us to
run back thru with the rest of the scrap brick. I always keep a 10x
mag. in my pocket. Who knows what I might find next. I have
found several coins on the belts when stopped and I am killing
time with my Bullseye PP. Yes it is never far away same goes for
the Ace 250. You never know when the chance arrives to have
some fun.
Back to the find.
First is was stuck to the magnet. My thought another knockout.
I rinsed it off and as you can see it is the size of a quarter.
Actually I held it with a quarter and they are the same size. But
larger than a nickel.
It is very bent no doubt from going thru the grinders. If you look
close it looks like a square bar thru the middle.
The head outline is visible.
]The strange thing is it was stuck to the magnet. Now for the really
good part. It is a nickel. The word Monticello is plainly seen on
the back and other rim lettering is exactly where it would be on
the nickel. Some how this mangled coin got hammered out but
retained its identity. A 2003 P and yes the weight is 77.2 grains a
quarter is 88 grains. Sorry about the blurry pics but camera is old
and needs to be replaced along with these shakey hands.
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