Sickening

[CarsonChris]

It was a good/bad day. I stopped at a park that occasionally produces a mercury dime. I start detecting and find two survey stakes about 40 ft apart. They high tone on me and have high VDI numbers. First one is 35 second is 32/33. I keep moving on and 100 ft further get another high tone and a bouncy 33 VDI. I cut a plug and there’s a rock. I’m not careful thinking it’s another survey stake so I fricken nick the edge of a seated 1/2.

 

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[CRUSADER]

Yeap, I would feel sick for weeks as well....

 

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[lenmac65]

That is still a beautiful coin in otherwise nice condition. Don't see Seated halfs often here. Congrats!

 

[DigToChina]

Anyone who says they haven’t done this is either digging garbage or lying. I did it three times in one day this summer and I’m still at a loss for how I wasn’t learning my lesson (I didn’t actually see the nicks on two of them in the field). I would guess the lesson for us all is to dig every target like it is something you want to keep, even if you have reason to believe it’s not...

Congrats on a great coin and HH.

 

[Megalodon]

Its only natural to kick yourself in the butt every time you look at that otherwise great find. IMO, it is a teaching moment and you have already started to use it that way by posting your experience here. I say "thank you" for the reminder to dig gently. And congrats on a great coin. Maybe there are more there!

 

[Davidson]

This was a sickening attack on a pregnant and defenceless woman.
He described the Foreign Office's decision as sickening and cynical.

 

[DFW_THer]

Outstanding coin! Nevermind that love tap

 

[cheffer]

It happens, don't beat yourself up. Concentrate on the fact that you found a BEAUTIFUL coin, perhaps one of the US's finest designs in HD size. Besides, aren't we all a little nicked up in end?

 

[the_mad_cladder]

It happens. Still an awesome find!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Killer coin, congrats!

Don't worry about oops, we have all done it at least once!

 

[_muppet_]

That's a coin that the majority of us will probably never have to worry about scratching, because most of us aren't lucky enough to get a coil over one. Nice find.

 

[Indiana_acklac]

awesome find

 

[BuckleBoy]

Woulda been safer left in the ground. It’s a good lesson to dig carefully. The best finds you’ll ever make have the highest likelihood of being improperly recovered—precisely because they don’t sound like 99.9% of the stuff you normally dig.