Weekend Hunts Bring Interesting Silver

[AgNostic]

So I ended up going back to the ball fields one more time yesterday. Pulled out a 1953-D Rosie, 1925 Merc and a 1944-S Merc. Also a sterling ring with a junk stone setting. Today I went to an old school (approximately 1920) that I have hunted before with the std coil, figuring I would give it a try with the sef coil. I have found quite a bit of silver there before, including a walking half, several Washington Quarters and many dimes. Today I found a 1946 Rosie, and 1941, 1942 and 1943 Mercs. Also a really nice sterling silver USAAF Navigator wings pin. Most interesting finds of the weekend are two1912 Barber Dimes that have been been converted to charms/jewelry. Somehow they were modified such that the ladies face changes and comes out of the faced of the dime. Anybody ever seen something like this?

 

[Hardtack1862]

Wow those are some exciting finds, I have not seen anything like the extreem convex head on those barber dimes. Nice work and thanks for sharing.

 

[kschae4]

Love the wings and the cool but misfigured barbers

 

[coindgr]

Very nice

 

[AgNostic]

Thanks for the good words. As an update to the Barbers, they are known as repousse punched pressed popout coins and there is a patent for making them. There was a previous post on another forum:

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/what/235973-raised-center-coin-repousse-punch-pressed-pop-out-3d.h

I believe the ones I found are from the charm bracelet shown in the post above. Pretty cool. One is selling on Ebay ending today and is at 49.99.

 

[mudpuppy]

Thats a beautiful find...thanks to your post, I've been doing some research on these repousse coins, not a whole lot of info out there on youtube...sure would like to find a set of dies, or maybe i'll have to find some old diemaker to give it a go...