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Beat Up Silver but, Silver Non the Less

DukeOBass

DukeOBass

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The E-trac has certainly blown my silver drought away! I have never found as much in such a short period of time!

I got my first Standing Liberty Quarter today and a really beat Merc. I wish there was a date on the Standing. It is an S mint mark which is rare on older coins here in Pennsylvania.

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Man o Man liberty got out on the wrong side of the bed the morning those coins were made lol. But silver is silver and to find a standing liberty is always a special first. Great job and thanks for posting. HH Joe
 
the Standing Liberty Qtrs from 1916 to 1924 had the raised date and therefore was one of the first things to wear off - from what I understand, Charles Barber was the Mint Director and he didn't like it his design was changed. Barber knew the design of the new quarter had a flaw with the date, but wouldn't change it!

HH - Hawkeye Jim.

PS: they're still a great find in my book!!!
 
SLQ's and Merc's are awesome coins designs and its sure is fun finding a first! Congratulations. There is a chance some of the date on that SLQ will come in. I know my first one has a readalbe date now....not so much when she was unearthed 4 months ago. Congratulations once again and thanks for the Pictures!

NebTrac
 
That poor Mercury dime sure has taken a lot of abuse. I've seen very few that could come close to that poor coins condition.

Father-in-law found a seated dime several years ago that had been in a fire as he dug it out of a fire pit in a park that came close to yours. We have hunted farm fields and found silver, copper, and nickles that suffered pretty close to yours because of farm chemicals eating them up. We have dug silver out of cinder pits that were comparable to yours.
We sifted silver coins out of a house fire that came very close to the condition of your coin. When we went to turn them in they didn't even want to give us silver value for the coins, but we shipped then to a refinery and was given 95% of silver value.

Silver is silver and yours has a story to tell. Enjoy
 
That's interesting. I wonder how that happens?
 
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