Ghost Town Gives Up Key Date Dime

[jimmyk]

Hi, all:

Back to my Civil War era ghost town. Trying to get all I can before the field gets planted. Found some interesting items, besides the eight Civil War bullets. A nice paper weight/log splitter was rescued. But, the best item was an 1829 dime. Unfortunately, it's in rough shape. The edges have been filed down on both sides to give it a knife edge effect all around. Still, a nice find. Especially, since the "Official Red Book" of coin values shows it to have what is called a "curl base 2". My edition is a 2005 book, so I don't know the current value, but my book says one in "good" condition is worth $4000. Granted, mine is far from "good", but still fun to find a really rare coin. Hard to take a picture to show it. I needed a magnifying glass to really determine what it was.Coin was picked out of a iron infested area where a brick church stood and was burned down during the war. My Deep Tech Vista Gold with it's fast response was able to pull it out. Am really liking this detector for junky sites.

Thanks for lookin' and keep on diggin'

jimmyk in Missouri

 

[Cajuncoinhunter]

WOW - What a find ! We call that good "field condition". CCH

 

[ironman200081]

Awesome! Looks like they polished the hell out of it though. What does the reverse look like?

 

[jimmyk]

Barely see the shield on the eagle. Very worn.

jimmyk

 

[morelic55]

That's gotta be the oldest dime I've seen dug in MO, The iron you found is a blacksmith's hammer................Mark

 

[G.E. Monk]

Awesome find! congratulations on pulling this beauty out of that site.