Mystery Coin

[Mike K (Ohio)]

I have a bigger picture for everyone to look at! Hope it helps as I'm trying to figure out what kind of coin it is. Thanks for anyone's time taken to help me!

Mike

[attachment 23142 MysteryCoin.jpg]

 

[Eddie in Poulsbo]

Man, that is a mystery one there!!!!........... Is it silver? Let us know if you ever find out what it might be. HH.

Eddie

 

[Mike K (Ohio)]

Some people thought it might help if I blew up the coin! So I got my scanner working and hope this helps.

Mike

 

[PULLTABBY]

What is the diameter thickness and composite ???
Hope someone can help ???

 

[James N.D.]

n/t

 

[mattockman]

Hard to tell by the Picture, if you ever seen a pillar coin(Reale) the edges of the coin would tell you, very diff. from other coins.

 

[therick]

n/t

 

[teester]

Necomer here... Mike I didn't see where you said what it was made of but it looks like a slug knocked from an electrical box of some sort.

 

[James N.D.]

Here is a pic of the front and the back of the Seated Dime I found. I hope this will help show everyone that the find you made is in fact silver and most likely a Dime. I can read 188- or 186- on it but it is just too hard to tell what the last 2 digits are.[attachment 23349 WornSeatedDimeFront..png] This is the front of the Dime.[attachment 23350 WornSeatedDimeBack.png] This is the back of the Dime.

 

[Mike K (Ohio)]

I wish there was something to read on mine!!!

 

[James N.D.]

I know the feeling. I also have a Barber Dime that looks like someone was chewing on it. I know that this is not the case, the ground conditions have alot of acid fertilizer of some sort and the dime is all caked up wit who knows what. I wish I could get a year off of either dimes myself just to know how old they are and if they were a key coin.

 

[Tagamet]

Often, even a couple of days soak in olive oil will "bring out" some of the letters. I know many don't support electrolysis, but if it's that badly worn, there's probably not too much to lose giving that coin a short "zap" to loosen the crud.
JMO,
Tagamet

 

[RingProfessional]

Its called a rare blankety disc.

 

[Mike K (Ohio)]

n/t

 

[jimb]

I worked for years in a punch press shop and that might be a slug from one of the machines? If it is the quality of sheet metal and about .035 thick. I would bet on that. If its thicker like .250 you might see a line around the side from where it was blanked out of the steel. Is it silver? Its something else them.

Good luck
Jimb