Bitter sweet find, I'll be kickin myself for awhile

[diggingfix]

Got permission to hunt an old house, went there and the neighbors were quite rude, anyways, To put it bluntly, I mangled my best find ever...Ugg, I've only scratched one silver in the past.
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It's an 1896 S with full bold liberty....Turned a great thing into a good thing... other finds included a EF1901 dime and some hotwhees and clad.

 

[Nick A]

I feel your pain. Nice find nonetheless!

 

[James N.D.]

Just too bad that of all the Coins that you had to dig and hit, that this Beauty had to be one of them. If that would have been me, I think I would have did a little something like this!uke: I also Murdered a Nice Coin a few years back. A 1906-O Barber Dime in EF. Made me sick when I found out it was a Good One worth a few bucks! I also Murdered a Merc this weekend, but Thank God it was a Common Date. It was in Gravely Dirt. One thing here though with your great find. You can say you found a Coin with a Mintage of only 188,063. Still a Nice Find Diggingfix and at least the Scratch is on the Reverse instead of the Obverse. Better Luck on your Pinpointing and HH to you.

 

[johnnymac]

n/t

 

[johnnymac]

I think we all have scratched a target and felt the same way you do. I bought a Sun Ray X1 target probe and it has done a great job of pinpointing targets. I don't remember scratching a coin since. H H