THIS FIND STARTED AS A WHATZIT AND ENDED UP BEING A BARBER SANDWICH...

[mj-air23]

We were detecting a park over the weekend and I got a nice high tone with the SE Pro. Pinpointed the target, dug a plug with the Lesche, and found what appeared to be a rusted out plug of some sort. It was very corroded and I figured it was some sort of junk, so I threw it in my pouch and kept on detecting. We got back to the camper and I kept pulling out that piece of junk and closely looking at it. It just seemed like there was some kind of writing on it, so I got out a fine bristle brush, held the thing with a plier, and tried to brush some of the corrosion off. The writing I thought I saw was just, alas, corrosion. I was ready to throw the thing in the trash, when I started chipping away at the object with the pliers and some of the stuff started coming off, and it started to look like coins. I said, naw, it couldn't be...I took a knife and slid it between the three discs and lo and behold, there appeared, 2 pennies and a silver type disc! Closer inspection revealed 2 Indians, dated 1891 and 1901 and a Barber Dime dated 1897..Unbelievable!! There must have been something around them that corroded the coins together in a clump, and to think I almost threw them away. I will be checking my finds a lot closer now...

 

[sgoss66]

WOW -- now that's a really interesting clump of coins. I wouldn't have expected that! NICE job -- good thing you didn't throw the clump away!

Steve

 

[TokenDigger]

Cool find and good thing you didn't toss it out. Sometimes you just never know...

 

[stubbs1]

Good job I wonder what they were wraped in,to make them that way? Good job

 

[MNCoinhunter]

Sweet !!

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Interesting. Had to be something iron around those coins, that corroded away over the decades, eh? I once found a couple of coins together (ie.: a pocket-spill) that had contained a couple of steel WWII cents in there. The 2 steel cents had corroded away to be nothing more than round rust spots ........ like a small steel washer. Looked kind of like the pix you post. But fused to the steel cents were other couple of age-commensurate wheaties. So I was going to suggest that this is what may be the case for your find, is that they were sandwhiched in by 2 steel WWII cents. However, in your case, this would not match the age of the expected circulation of the IH & barber. Wierd.

 

[RandyNorthridgeca]

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[RLOH]

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[mj-air23]

Interesting. Had to be something iron around those coins, that corroded away over the decades, eh? I once found a couple of coins together (ie.: a pocket-spill) that had contained a couple of steel WWII cents in there. The 2 steel cents had corroded away to be nothing more than round rust spots ........ like a small steel washer. Looked kind of like the pix you post. But fused to the steel cents were other couple of age-commensurate wheaties. So I was going to suggest that this is what may be the case for your find, is that they were sandwhiched in by 2 steel WWII cents. However, in your case, this would not match the age of the expected circulation of the IH & barber. Wierd.

We had thought that they might have been two steel cents at first also Tom. I could see a silver rim in the middle so I was hoping it was a silver dime, (actually hoped for seated):sad: but was happy it was Barber. Was surprised to see the 2 Indian cents instead of steel cents. Coins must have been kept in a metal pill case or something. Thanks for the reply.

 

[snevlida147]

thats way cool

 

[NealNoIN]

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