Lunch hour hunt ~ Key date ROSIE DIME ~ medallion ~ mini-WARRIOR dude!!

oddcoins · Oct 8, 2008

Hello! Well, today is Wednesday ~ the day that I meet with my co-workers down town to eat a big ol' burrito for lunch! After lunch I stayed downtown to do some detecting before I had to go back to the office. My first two digs were 1945-S wheat cents! I figured I'd find silver soon! I dug some clad, one more 1940's wheat cent, a UNION PACIFIC lucky piece medallion thingy, and a little lead Warrior figurine. The little warrior dude is only about an inch tall ~ and someone engraved 1978 on the bottom/base. I wanted a piece of silver so bad that I ended up being almost 30 minutes late getting back to work! But the last target of the day was the key date Rosie dime ~ 1949-S!! And dang it if I didn't scratch the holy crap out of it! OUCH!! Oh well ~ scratched silver is better still than no silver!

This 1949-S dime is my silver coin find #84 for the year!

Thanks for looking!
Neil

8^)

tabdog · Oct 8, 2008

Hay Neil,

That lead warior is awesome.

Could be worth something.

Thanks for sharing,

Tabdog

civilman1 · Oct 8, 2008

Neil I love your honesty.....Congrat's on the Key Rosie...I got one of those little dude's,stand about an inch tall like you say,but the one I have is the Grim Reeper......Game piece maybe? Cool find's!!!! :thumbsup:

dex378 · Oct 8, 2008

The little guy is a dungeons and dragons figure from the eighties.

Colonial KirkPA · Oct 8, 2008

I don't understand why you "deck" your coins. You digging with a screwdriver? :icon_scratch:

Kirk

oddcoins · Oct 8, 2008

Colonial KirkPA said:
I don't understand why you "deck" your coins. You digging with a screwdriver?

Kirk

Are you telling me that you've never scratched a coin while digging it up?! If so, I don't believe you!

This one today I dug in a strip of grass that was littered with bottle caps. I could tell I had a good coin target but when I went to pinpoint there was junk too close and my pinpointing was off, so I ended up scratching the silver dime! DANG IT!!!

oddcoins · Oct 8, 2008

dex378 said:
The little guy is a dungeons and dragons figure from the eighties.

From the 1980's? Why did someone engrave 1978 on the bottom of the base?

fortbball9 · Oct 8, 2008

CONGRATS----nice rosie

fortbball9

DD-777 · Oct 8, 2008

The mighty burrito lunch strikes again! Great digs OC... :thumbsup:

By the way - you might have found Crusader...

t-bucket · Oct 8, 2008

Congrats on the hunt and its not bad just looks like he cut himself shaving HA. HA. WTG and Good luck on your next hunt !!!! :thumbsup:

oddcoins · Oct 8, 2008

t-bucket said:
Congrats on the hunt and its not bad just looks like he cut himself shaving HA. HA. WTG and Good luck on your next hunt !!!!

LOL ~ yeah, he only hit a major artery!

Mirage · Oct 8, 2008

Neil,
You scalped 'em! :wink:

Yeah, I've done it. Even this year. :thumbsup:

Didn't know there was a key date Rosie. Those "S" mintmarks are hard to find for us eastern folks. 8)

Why are your pictures so fuzzy? You find a lot of good stuff. It's a crying shame the pics aren't clearer.

Bob

oddcoins · Oct 8, 2008

Mirage said:
Neil,
You scalped 'em! Yeah, I've done it. Even this year.

Didn't know there was a key date Rosie. Those "S" mintmarks are hard to find for us eastern folks. 8)

Why are your pictures so fuzzy? You find a lot of good stuff. It's a crying shame the pics aren't clearer.

Bob

YEAH it's the key date of the Roosevelt dime series! Look it up in the coin books! It's not worth a lot, but it's the best one!

My pic's are fuzzy because I take pic's with a regular anolog camcorder through an old WebTV set-up. Then I e-mail the pic's to my PC ~ not the best pic's, but it works!

gold nuggets · Oct 9, 2008

Like you said Neil, silver is silver!! Congrats on the rosie. :thumbsup:

Anyone that has dug as many coins from the ground as you have, has scratched or damaged a coin in one way or another. And like you said, you don't believe them if they said they haven't.... I agree.
The rest of your treasures are neat too. Gold Nuggets :icon_jokercolor:

crazyjarhead · Oct 9, 2008

Your lunch breaks seem to always pay off ,Neil :thumbsup:

acevillav · Oct 9, 2008

Nice lunch digs. your figure is lead made by Ral Partha. They made tons of figs when Dugeons and Dragons was the rage.

Acevillav

Michigan Badger · Oct 9, 2008

Nice digs

Badger

silverfreak · Oct 9, 2008

Nice stuff O.C.
I hate it when I hack a coin...but it does happen. :wink:

oddcoins · Oct 9, 2008

silverfreak said:
Nice stuff O.C.
I hate it when I hack a coin...but it does happen.

Yeah, I hate it when I scratch my coins! But really it doesn't matter ~ I'm gonna keep all these coins until the day I die ~ then they are going to my son. Then what ever he does with them I don't care ~ I won't even know ~ I'll be dead!