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

 

[olekyground]

Neat finds!! I really like the war thimble!!

 

[allen]

it was awful nice of the lady to give the canadian quarters !
I had a truck driver friend named Jim who gave me one of
those about 3 years ago and less than a week later he died
in an accident 1

 

[september]

Nice find!!

 

[HCW]

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.

excellent idea on all accounts.
Westside Stamp and Coin Co. 921 East St. Walpole Ma. 508-668-9445

 

[NHBandit]

While I agree there is something "different" about the last 8 I'm going to add my 2 cents worth. The right side of the 8 looks to be slightly flattened as if it was hit with something and the reason I say this is that the rim directly below the 8 where the edge design is looks to be slightly flattened as well. The bottom pic in the last group of pictures you posted shows this pretty clearly. The edge "reeding" looks to be flattened & pushed up towards the 8 causing it to appear fatter than the rest of the edge. Pictures I've seen of legitimate 8 over 7 overdates don't look the same as your coin. My humble opinion is that at some point in it's life it was hit fairly hard by something at that spot and then wore down to give it the appearance it has now. Still a great find.

 

[mainer]

Hey MaineRelic. I got a coin dealer that I do a lot of buisness with, I could put you intouch with him. I think your up in Bangor? He would be about an hour away from you. Let me know if you want his Info. Good luck buddy hope it turns out to be the real deal.

 

[unclevinn]

nice looking find buddy keep sweeping that lawn HH unclevinn

 

[coin1921]

The Canadian Quarter interests me. This coin was issued for circulation in 2006, and should have a date above the queens head. I do not see a date in your photo, and if there is actually no date on the coin, it could be a valuable mint error coin.
Is there a date on the coin?

 

[Jay Plunder]

Far fetched I know....but it sure looks like an 8 over 3 to me

 

[unclevinn]

one of our fellow mainers was on the banner two or three years back. bootstrap vinn had that nice 1 dollar califonia gold piece on there remember? unclevinn

 

[GopherDaGold]

While I agree there is something "different" about the last 8 I'm going to add my 2 cents worth. The right side of the 8 looks to be slightly flattened as if it was hit with something and the reason I say this is that the rim directly below the 8 where the edge design is looks to be slightly flattened as well. The bottom pic in the last group of pictures you posted shows this pretty clearly. The edge "reeding" looks to be flattened & pushed up towards the 8 causing it to appear fatter than the rest of the edge. Pictures I've seen of legitimate 8 over 7 overdates don't look the same as your coin. My humble opinion is that at some point in it's life it was hit fairly hard by something at that spot and then wore down to give it the appearance it has now. Still a great find.

I can agree with much of your theory however if you look at the entire coin you will see other areas of flattening as well. Those areas did not deform like our mystery '8'.
Could it be a FLATTENED 8/7?