I hunted the park today where I pulled around 30 modern silvers last summer and fall. Slim pickings at this point but did manage some clad and a 56 GW that I somehow missed in the past. This site has probably produced more silver coins than wheaties. Very strange but the strangeness continued today with the wafer thin silver? disc with a reeded edge. Weight is close to a dime. Possibly run over by a train. I need to test it I guess to know for sure.
Should I count this one toward my silver coin totals
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Captain Silver
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Yes, count it as a silver coin...nice save!
Delcojohn
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Yeah that is a silver coin and to help you out more it is either a barber or later seated after 1860 I can see enough to ID the denticles and bottom of a wreath that would normally say on dime.
fishermanjuice
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I agree with Delcojohn. The inside edge beading is clearly visible in the bottom right of the picture as well. Definitely barber or seated.
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cellrdwellr
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You must have some really good eyes
I can't make out anything off that. Definitely counts ! Congrats!IDXMonster
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Absolutely YES! It does look like a train victim, how the edges are squashed over.
wayne1956
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I would agree, definite yes on adding to the silver count, but have to say no on the run over by a train. Being run over by something heavy like that with steel wheels, the coin would be more elongated. Yours is still round.
Delcojohn
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You must have some really good eyes
At the 4 o'clock position you see denticles along the wire rim and at the 5 o'clock position you see the bottom of what used to be a wreath. The denticles of a dime size silver coin were prior to the mercury dime so it at least has to be a barber dime or better and seated before 1860 had a different wreath on the back which wouldn't have come down that far on the coin unless it was the wreath of a newer seated or barber dime. If I had to pick I'd go with barber though because even in the mauled condition its in the wreath and denticles have even wear pattern while a seated although older tends to have a weaker strike on the reverse than a barber reverse does. Not trying to act like a know-it-all just trying to tell this person this counts as a silver coin because by treasury laws it is more than 60 percent complete. Also trying to give an ID for the coin found from what I can see . I'm going with barber but I only have one side of the coin to look at. Hope that this at least gives the finder of this coin my confidence what he/she has.
Ohiodigger
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^^^This^^^
