Seated but not Pretty

[SusanMN]

I was feeling lazy this week and decided to do a little playground hunting. Ended up in an old school yard that is heavily hunted but huge. After finding two cents in the wood chips, I wandered around the outside edge of the playground, an area that many of the hunters forget about, and pick up a few quarters, dimes and pennies. One of the signals sounded like a dime, but what came out just a couple inches down was what appeared to be another crusty, disintegrating zincoln, same color as the clad and other coins. Pennies will sometimes sound like dimes to the Xterra so I didn't give it another thought, just tossed it in with the other coins.

When I was cleaning out my finds pouch that evening though, I remembered the crusty coin and realized when I pulled it out that it was the size of a dime, not a penny. I thought maybe a foreign coin. I tossed into lemon juice to soak, and when I checked it part of the crust that had fallen off one side showed "one dime" on the coin. It took a couple of hours of alternating between lemon juice and tin foil/salt/baking soda/boiling water before the other side gave way and I nearly keeled over. My first seated dime - an 1891 - pitted, but still legible. I've pulled silver coins this damaged from the water, but this was near the top of a hill. Must be 120 years of Minnesota winters.

 

[sonofadigger]

oh its pretty great job

 

[jewelerguy]

cool. I'd take it for sure. congrats!

 

[Michiganne]

Congrats on the seated.

HH

 

[dougofpa]

Sweet seated

 

[Giant056]

Congrats on the seated

 

[oldsalty19]