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

 

[pepperj]

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

Nice IH, here's a little on the ribbon quarter.

Of the uses of ribbons to draw awareness to health issues, perhaps the most well-known is the red ribbon for support of those with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Other health and social concerns which have adopted coloured ribbons include Alzheimer's disease (purple), Breast Cancer (pink), and bipolar disorder (green).

 

[silvestor]

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

Sure looks like an 8 over 7 to me.

Great finds !!!

 

[txpathfinder]

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

Aside from the nice finds, a very touching post. Makes you appreciate what you have. Peace.

 

[Ed-NH]

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

Nice finds and very honorable of you to think of donating proceeds to the fund 8)

 

[rogues71]

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

gratz on the injun and sorry for your loss

 

[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 .

The dealer said no to the 8 over 7 1888 Indian . He said it looked like a pushed date. Probably caused by frost pushing it against a rock ! Maybe next Time MaineRelic

 

[GopherDaGold]

Get a second opinion. I think he's bonkers.

 

[Mr Tuff]

nice asortment of finds NICE IH 8) MR TUFF

 

[Old Dog]

Nice 88,
Great looking Tootsie toys as well !!

 

[Lt1stone]

Nice Finds and a Great Post!

 

[alpha105]

Your dealers right....i offer $5 for the coin

Im betting thats how he was thinking it would work out at least.

 

[Old Dog]

Take the 88 to a reputteable dealer.
This guy is going to take the coin and sell it as an 8/7.

You get the dirty end of the stick.

 

[dfx willy]

he did say it didnt have the usual die markers! hm gonna have to research this. see what the die markers are. congrats will;y

 

[Deepdiger60]

It seems kind of strange that your not the only person who has a IH like that get it checked again .Jim
http://www.cointalk.com/t39540/

 

[MaineRelic]

Take the 88 to a reputteable dealer.
This guy is going to take the coin and sell it as an 8/7.

You get the dirty end of the stick.

Thanks for your concern old dog ! I trust this dealer ! I have been going to him for 3 years now. He has an outstanding reputation in town for his honesty and integrity. He gives the highest scrap and bullion prices in town ! Some of the other precious metal scrap dealers resell to him ! He also, is very knowledgable in nusismatics and even took the time to show me why he did not believe it to be a genuine 8 over 7 and what he showed me convinced me too! and I learned alot !! MaineRelic

 

[ndhill1976]

It seems kind of strange that your not the only person who has a IH like that get it checked again .Jim
http://www.cointalk.com/t39540/

You may not have the 8 over 7, but you do share an oddity with this guy. I doubt that frost pushed that coin against a rock.

 

[Merf]

Some sweet finds MR

 

[HCW]

Get a second opinion. I think he's bonkers.

DEFINITELY. There aren't too many years that have over-dates. That is worth the effort to go and have checked . I have a dealer here in Massachusetts that I trust . He's in Walpole. on Rt. 27. If your'e in the area bring it with you and have it checked. I'll find out the name of the store and modify this post.

 

[HCW]

Take the 88 to a reputteable dealer.
This guy is going to take the coin and sell it as an 8/7.

You get the dirty end of the stick.

Thanks for your concern old dog ! I trust this dealer ! I have been going to him for 3 years now. He has an outstanding reputation in town for his honesty and integrity. He gives the highest scrap and bullion prices in town ! Some of the other precious metal scrap dealers resell to him ! He also, is very knowledgable in nusismatics and even took the time to show me why he did not believe it to be a genuine 8 over 7 and what he showed me convinced me too! and I learned alot !! MaineRelic

If you haven't already, look at the image in the Red Book. Youl'le see why I thought this.
I don't mean to push this but I got a Feeling about this one.

 

[MaineRelic]

Thanks HCW. I am going to take your advice and get a second opinion on this coin. I tried To take a closer image of the date and I am also going to put it on a coin forum !! MaineRelic.