Odd cut Half Dime

[worldtalker]

Went back to the farmfield I've been hunting,boy it's dusty too,got a few buckles,cool bag seal,suspender clip,my first heel plate,buckshot,gold gilded brooch.









Best find was this 1858 Half Dime...I believe they were deliberate cuts.




GOD Bless

Chris

 

[cjon455]

cut or not, that half dime is freakin awesome!!!
on my bucket list!

congrats!

 

[Bass]

They were deliberate. People would do this to create their own little stash of free silver

 

[GaRebel1861]

They were "cutting corners" back then too! Still a nice find!

 

[gheenoe78]

Cool find.

 

[46Wheat]

that's cool

 

[worldtalker]

They were deliberate. People would do this to create their own little stash of free silver

A Half Dime weighs 1.4g,this one weighs 1.1,so...it would take 93 Half Dimes to get 28g,that's a lot of work.

 

[The Patriot]

Great score on the silver! bale seals a fav too

 

[Ahab8]

Very cool 3/8 dime lol. Bummer that heel plate is broken. Those star plates do t show up often

 

[Erik in NJ]

I've never really seen this before. I know gold coins were shaved down, but like WT said it's a heck of a lot of work with silver for small reward and I doubt that coin was accepted by anyone after it was clipped. Seems to me it was deliberate defacing of the coin out of boredom.

They were deliberate. People would do this to create their own little stash of free silver

 

[david680]

Nice find. Any half dime is a great half dime. However, if they were trying to clip the edges, they were a little too obvious.

 

[worldtalker]

Very cool 3/8 dime lol. Bummer that heel plate is broken. Those star plates do t show up often

The other half was plum wore off.

 

[Subterranean]

Chris, very nice treasure trove of goodies, congratulations. I have seen 1800's firearms with the front sights replaced with a cut and fitted silver coin, maybe that was the intended purpose of this one? Happy hunting, Sub

 

[worldtalker]

Chris, very nice treasure trove of goodies, congratulations. I have seen 1800's firearms with the front sights replaced with a cut and fitted silver coin, maybe that was the intended purpose of this one? Happy hunting, Sub

I reckon you make due with what you have.

 

[Carolina Tom]

Very nice finds WT! That half dime is just plain killer! Congrats on all of the goodies. GL&HH.

 

[worldtalker]

Very nice finds WT! That half dime is just plain killer! Congrats on all of the goodies. GL&HH.

Tom,

The Farm next door is from that era also,Ritchie has plowed the fields there too for the first time in over 6 decades,you know where I'll be. A whole new trove of treasure!

 

[Carolina Tom]

Tom,

The Farm next door is from that era also,Ritchie has plowed the fields there too for the first time in over 6 decades,you know where I'll be. A whole new trove of treasure!

I found my first 1800s silver and only my second Barber last weekend... so that little half dime looks really sweet to me. Pre CW US silver... the stuff that dreams are made of.

Smittyman and I are going to Philly for four days of hunting, in a week. We have high hopes of perhaps finding a seated coin!

The fresh plowed field sounds like it might be a honey hole for YOU! GL!

 

[jeff of pa]

could be

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/coins/463380-1881-mutilated-coin-warning.html

 

[Marylanddetctr]

That's why they put the lines on the rim, if one was missing it wasn't worth it's value so know one clipped them after that

 

[Erik in NJ]

Interesting. Which lines exactly are you talking about?

That's why they put the lines on the rim, if one was missing it wasn't worth it's value so know one clipped them after that