Three Franklins and some fuzzy math!

[halfdime]

I apologize if you were misled, but I am referring to Roosevelt Franklins, not Benjamins . At the silver farm today, I found the 57 and 51 very quickly, then scuffled the rest of the day without finding much more of interest. I added a 46 Rosey, a 34 and six common wheats, this key fixture and two more Pittsburgh Railway tokens. Now for the fuzzy math: Since I really found just .84 today, I am going to declare the tokens worth .08 apiece, giving me an even dollar on the day. Isn't this what the government does when it suits them? I also looked back at some of my miscellaneous finds, and found an identical key fixture to the one I found today. I know the other was also found at the silver farm, but I don't recall the area.

 

[kg6yll]

Three in one day is good in my book!

 

[rebelLT]

Seems to me that any silver dime is worth about a buck in silver alone. So you found at least three dollars there! I would love to see a closeup of the token as I have recently started to take a shine to them. I think some are better than old coins. I've found a alot of soap, bull durahm, presidents, and good luck (talking dall, shoe, boy scout etc) tokens. I like to find, and see, tokens that are not often found. Looks like you got two good ones there! Nice tokens.

 

[halfdime]

Seems to me that any silver dime is worth about a buck in silver alone. So you found at least three dollars there! I would love to see a closeup of the token as I have recently started to take a shine to them. I think some are better than old coins. I've found a alot of soap, bull durahm, presidents, and good luck (talking dall, shoe, boy scout etc) tokens. I like to find, and see, tokens that are not often found. Looks like you got two good ones there! Nice tokens.

These aren't the two I found today, but they are the two best in my collection. I hope this helps.

 

[watercolor]

That silver farm has been good to you this season. . . I'll bet you'll find more this weekend

HH!

 

[ringfinder]

Looks to me like Three Dollars in change and some tokens. Can't beat that. I'll take that anyday. Now get back there and find some more.

HH, Ringfinder

 

[ModernMiner]

HD,
You're hoarding all those Rosie's. Those dimes always elude me. Congrats to you.
Cool looking tokens too.
-MM-

 

[Boobydoo]

Nice silvers ("franklins!")
Congrats on another awesome day out there. Keep em coming, good luck!

 

[Merf]

Nice finds HD----Three silver dimes is a darn good hunt.

 

[halfdime]

HD,
You're hoarding all those Rosie's. Those dimes always elude me. Congrats to you.
Cool looking tokens too.
-MM-

I have 68 Roseys in a little bag, all ready for a trip to the coin dealer to trade. The odd thing about all these Roseys is that I seldom find any that fill the holes in my albums .

 

[ModernMiner]

HD,
You're hoarding all those Rosie's. Those dimes always elude me. Congrats to you.
Cool looking tokens too.
-MM-

I have 68 Roseys in a little bag, all ready for a trip to the coin dealer to trade. The odd thing about all these Roseys is that I seldom find any that fill the holes in my albums .

68!!! @@ That's fantastic. I may have 1 or 2?
Congrats HD,
MM

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Nice finds HD! HH, Mike

 

[DCMatt]

Isn't this what the government does when it suits them?

The government also taxes you about 27% on income. So now you're back to 73 cents...

Looks like you had a pretty good day, even after Uncle Sam got involved... :P

DCMatt

 

[Leon]

Very nice finds, Congrats!!!
Love the old lock plate, very nice...

This site shows the current melt down value for a silver Roosevelt is at $1.04...
Melt down Calculator:
http://www.coinflation.com/coins/silver_coin_calculator.html

Since I put that link there, I should give a warning... The Mint is banning the melting of coins, not sure if it includes old silver, or not ...
http://money.cnn.com/2006/12/14/news/melting/index.htm

Continued Good luck, & Happy hunting~

 

[renegade_7]

Three silver dimes ain't half bad. Keep diggin...

 

[Mirage]

A nice hunt Henry.

You know, I work for the government. We don't do any fuzzy math. The closest we come is when doing estimates. Rule of thumb - whatever you think it's going to cost - double it!

Bob

 

[DCMatt]

A nice hunt Henry.

You know, I work for the government. We don't do any fuzzy math. The closest we come is when doing estimates. Rule of thumb - whatever you think it's going to cost - double it!

Bob

Bob,

I work for the government, too. Here's a great example of how the government views money:

Many years ago I was preparing Congressional testimony for the director of the newly created Resolution Trust Corporation (savings & loan bailout agency). The numbers weren't adding up for me so I asked him what I should do. He said, "As long as you're within 250 MILLION dollars, that's close enough."

I cranked out a number (somewhere in the 2 - 3 BILLION $ range), he took it to Congress, nobody even raised an eyebrow... The next week it was printed in the Washington Post and became a talking point for all the DC wonks. And that makes it gospel...

DCMatt