king-ghidorah
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I got in about a little over an hour's worth of swinging today (Sat.). Temperature was around 36 degrees. It was a sunny day for the most
part. I went up the hill a little where I have found the WL & Kennedy (Erik,I feel your pain,heehee) and a few old wheaties. I did that for
about 30 mintues but it didn't feel right so I said let me do the bottom of the hill where there is a patch of land near the water. When I
get this 'feeling" or "itching" to do a place I have to do it as it bothers me too much to just blow it off. I think within 5 mintues or so I
get a bite about a couple of feet from the water's edge, a 7-28. I say to myself this must be a dime or it could be a quarter. It's about
7-8" down so I pull it out and I am looking at it and it looks almost flat as a washer but the weight feels like quarter.
So I trying to wet it a little and find out what it is but I can not do much here outside so I leave it alone figuring it's a silver quarter.
Meanwhile I was feeding a male & female swan. They like peanut butter & bread. I could have fed them right off my hand. I was laughing as every
now and then as they had to drink some water as the peanut butter dries their mouth out. They had come over beforehand as I started
excavating the quarter hit so I ran over to my car across the street and gave them some of my bread. Then the swans come out of the water as
I am packing my stuff away to go home and cross the street and come over to my car. I feed them another peanut butter sandwich. They gobbled
those away too. The male hissed at me. He was about 4' away from me. I told him,"SShhh, be quiet". Other people drove by with their eyes wide
open and stopped and took pictures of them. Little do people realize that their beauty can turn really ugly if they want to attack you. I say
this because Joe "never been raised in the country" points the camera in the male's face and starts taking pictures. I was wondering what
would've happened had his flash started going off. I don't think the swan would have found it amusing.
I go home a little while after that and I am looking at it under the reverse end of binoucluars as I have no loupe as of yet and I see what
looks like to be L-I-B but after a while I noticed it stops at the head. I am looking at the reverse side and it looks like a state or
something. This is what I noticed when I was looking at it when I first recovered it. So regular quarters do not just stop the spelling of
Liberty at the head so I get out the Red Book and then I am looking at the front, "Man, it looks like a colonial guy standing" but then I see
the Standing Liberty in the Red Book. Yeap, that's what it is but I can see no date. I look at the reverse which is in better shape than the
front and it has no stars below the eagle as you can see if you look good so it can only be these four dates as these were the only ones made
without the stars below the eagle:
Mintage G-4
1916 ..................................52,000 $3,000
1917 .............................8,740,000 22
1917D ...........................1,509,200 25
1917S ...........................1,952,000 30
This is from the 2006 Red Book. I have to get a more recent one.
So I am really looking and I see a number where the last number is and guess what it is?
I do not see a 7 but I see what is a 6 when you look at it intently and angle it just right under the light! I have circled it red where the
6 is. When you look at 1916 as in the Red Book you can see that the 6 lines up right where it should be with Liberty's body parts and the
square area that the date shoukd be. You really have to look hard to see it as the photo doesn't do it justice. If my scanner was working I
would scan it at high resolution so you can see it in a more defined manner. The other pics of the front is resized at 200 & 400%
respectively so maybe you can get a closer look at it. I have one at 400% resized for the eagle side of the SLQ.
This is a 1916 SLQ valued at $3,000 in G-4 condition. Do not forget that this is the valuation from the 06' Red Book not the 08' so obviously
it has gone up in value. Unfortunately my coin in not in G-4 condition. It wouldn't even get an AG rating but With only 52,000 of these
babies ever minted you can see why it commands such a high price. All I did when I got home is run it under warm water and brushed it lightly
with a soft brush for like 5-6 seconds each side.It seems like a rust-like substance has attacked it.This was near the water where the
Canadian Geese graze and poop all over the place as they do all over the park. Any ideas on cleaning it? Probably best to get it
professionally cleaned? Is it worth it to get it cleaned?
I would've posted this as soon as I got home Saturday but the rocket scientist COX technician in hooking up my new tenant down the basement
cut my connection off so I couldn't post it until today. At least I got some swinging in and I sure made it count. Like they say,"You never
know what is under the coil". That is one phrase from this incident that will always impress on me the need to be diligent. It also impressed
on me that we always see "other people" finding something really valuable and thinking "it hasn't happened to me yet" or "it will never
happen to me, all I find is clad." Your time will come! The more hours you put into it the more you will get out of it. There is no simple
formula except swinging the halo of pain.
We had a light dusting of snow Sunday and most of it melted but that was Jack Frost's way of saying hello and Monday at 9am he's breathing
heavily on me telling me the season is nearing it's end. I am going to go out there and check the woods like I have been thinking about
lately. Keep warm & HH! I just got my cable back on and it's a little after a 11am and it's still a little over 20 degrees. The hey with it.
I am still going out into the woods,heehee.
part. I went up the hill a little where I have found the WL & Kennedy (Erik,I feel your pain,heehee) and a few old wheaties. I did that for
about 30 mintues but it didn't feel right so I said let me do the bottom of the hill where there is a patch of land near the water. When I
get this 'feeling" or "itching" to do a place I have to do it as it bothers me too much to just blow it off. I think within 5 mintues or so I
get a bite about a couple of feet from the water's edge, a 7-28. I say to myself this must be a dime or it could be a quarter. It's about
7-8" down so I pull it out and I am looking at it and it looks almost flat as a washer but the weight feels like quarter.
So I trying to wet it a little and find out what it is but I can not do much here outside so I leave it alone figuring it's a silver quarter.
Meanwhile I was feeding a male & female swan. They like peanut butter & bread. I could have fed them right off my hand. I was laughing as every
now and then as they had to drink some water as the peanut butter dries their mouth out. They had come over beforehand as I started
excavating the quarter hit so I ran over to my car across the street and gave them some of my bread. Then the swans come out of the water as
I am packing my stuff away to go home and cross the street and come over to my car. I feed them another peanut butter sandwich. They gobbled
those away too. The male hissed at me. He was about 4' away from me. I told him,"SShhh, be quiet". Other people drove by with their eyes wide
open and stopped and took pictures of them. Little do people realize that their beauty can turn really ugly if they want to attack you. I say
this because Joe "never been raised in the country" points the camera in the male's face and starts taking pictures. I was wondering what
would've happened had his flash started going off. I don't think the swan would have found it amusing.
I go home a little while after that and I am looking at it under the reverse end of binoucluars as I have no loupe as of yet and I see what
looks like to be L-I-B but after a while I noticed it stops at the head. I am looking at the reverse side and it looks like a state or
something. This is what I noticed when I was looking at it when I first recovered it. So regular quarters do not just stop the spelling of
Liberty at the head so I get out the Red Book and then I am looking at the front, "Man, it looks like a colonial guy standing" but then I see
the Standing Liberty in the Red Book. Yeap, that's what it is but I can see no date. I look at the reverse which is in better shape than the
front and it has no stars below the eagle as you can see if you look good so it can only be these four dates as these were the only ones made
without the stars below the eagle:
Mintage G-4
1916 ..................................52,000 $3,000
1917 .............................8,740,000 22
1917D ...........................1,509,200 25
1917S ...........................1,952,000 30
This is from the 2006 Red Book. I have to get a more recent one.
So I am really looking and I see a number where the last number is and guess what it is?
I do not see a 7 but I see what is a 6 when you look at it intently and angle it just right under the light! I have circled it red where the
6 is. When you look at 1916 as in the Red Book you can see that the 6 lines up right where it should be with Liberty's body parts and the
square area that the date shoukd be. You really have to look hard to see it as the photo doesn't do it justice. If my scanner was working I
would scan it at high resolution so you can see it in a more defined manner. The other pics of the front is resized at 200 & 400%
respectively so maybe you can get a closer look at it. I have one at 400% resized for the eagle side of the SLQ.
This is a 1916 SLQ valued at $3,000 in G-4 condition. Do not forget that this is the valuation from the 06' Red Book not the 08' so obviously
it has gone up in value. Unfortunately my coin in not in G-4 condition. It wouldn't even get an AG rating but With only 52,000 of these
babies ever minted you can see why it commands such a high price. All I did when I got home is run it under warm water and brushed it lightly
with a soft brush for like 5-6 seconds each side.It seems like a rust-like substance has attacked it.This was near the water where the
Canadian Geese graze and poop all over the place as they do all over the park. Any ideas on cleaning it? Probably best to get it
professionally cleaned? Is it worth it to get it cleaned?
I would've posted this as soon as I got home Saturday but the rocket scientist COX technician in hooking up my new tenant down the basement
cut my connection off so I couldn't post it until today. At least I got some swinging in and I sure made it count. Like they say,"You never
know what is under the coil". That is one phrase from this incident that will always impress on me the need to be diligent. It also impressed
on me that we always see "other people" finding something really valuable and thinking "it hasn't happened to me yet" or "it will never
happen to me, all I find is clad." Your time will come! The more hours you put into it the more you will get out of it. There is no simple
formula except swinging the halo of pain.
We had a light dusting of snow Sunday and most of it melted but that was Jack Frost's way of saying hello and Monday at 9am he's breathing
heavily on me telling me the season is nearing it's end. I am going to go out there and check the woods like I have been thinking about
lately. Keep warm & HH! I just got my cable back on and it's a little after a 11am and it's still a little over 20 degrees. The hey with it.
I am still going out into the woods,heehee.
That might be worth professional cleaning and grading.......
