Sharing the one new thing I learned today...

[God bless our veterans! Thank you for your sacrifices!]

What with all the seated coins popping up here, I came across this info on modified seated dollars that I thought was interesting.  I've learned so many things about coins and other things from T-Net and its members, and this is one of them.  I was looking through the classified forum to see if anyone had an Explorer/E-Trac lower rod for sale and came across a post about - ahem -  "potty dollars".  



Anyway, here's the link to the modified seated half dollar that's for sale.  Ivan Salis posted some interesting info on the subject in his reply.

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,285626.0.html

Also, this link has more about them:

http://www.carsoncitycoinclub.com/pdf/Ways_to_Diversify.pdf

You may already know about these, but I didn't before today & thought I'd pass it on for anyone else who didn't.

Thanks Neil...........

I remember someone posting a couple hobo nickels a year or so ago.  Triggered some infighting over sourcing.  I have an IH that is the same size as a nickel, wondered if it wasn't one such coin myself since it's a poor rendering but came up in context with old material. 

But I noticed the reeding was actually on the facing edge of the coin I found, maybe a wierd mint error but who knows.  A hammered-down coin would still present a reeded edge, I believe.

[God bless our veterans! Thank you for your sacrifices!]

I'll call that coin a nickel - the surface looks like a cleaned dug nickel.

I'll also call that nickel a real cool find!!!

What does the back look like?

Nah, it's an IH that got enlarged by some process Neil.  I was thinking an IH got dropped on a nickel planchet at the mint then shipped out somehow.  But who knows?