Funny coin story

I met this gentleman messing around with a metal detector today at a local park, near Huntington, WV. Anyway I got to talking to him, and he told me he found a 1903 O Morgan in MS shape a couple weeks ago there lol haha. He assured me, he was telling the truth too. I'm just curious, on what the odds of finding this in the dirt would be lol? Considering this dates history and everything.
PS, I know he is either confused or fibbing.

 

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I searched Ritter park a long time ago and just found modern coins. Last I heard Huntington banned detecting in city parks did I hear wrong?

 

Barboursville Park, not Ritter. I've never seen anybody metal detecting at Ritter before. So you are probably right.

 

Dates and mintages aside, he clearly doesn't understand what "MS" means.

I vote for "confused" (a polite way to say he is flat out wrong ;-)

 

You can't fix stupid, even with duct tape.

 

Mildly Soiled?

 

How dare you question the ability of duct tape!

 

Morgans have been found MD'ing .... not a frequent thing, but not totally rare either. Now, in MS? Possible though not likely... His experience at grading may not be the best... That being said, I see no reason to doubt he may have found one.

 

Although this is true, it can help prevent the spreading of stupid

 

Maybe he found it slabbed? I've heard of collectors having pieces they can't be separated from. Makes for a sad picnic though.

Just me and my Morgan.

 

Are you guys talking about duck tape?

 

Why would you want to tape up a poor little duck?

 

Well you wouldn't "want" to tape up a duck but sometimes that's the only option

 

I grew up in the city, I can tell the difference between pigeons and seagulls which are basically both rats with wings. I can tell the difference between starlings and sparrows. Everything else is a duck.

When you buy a duck it comes Frozen and you have to defrost it in the bathtub. Use duct tape to hold it under the water level while it's defrosting.

Why do I have to even explain these things?

 

Don't all collectors carry M.S.(milk soured) coins in their pockets, the pocket with the hole in it?

 

Perhaps it was slabbed and stored in an ammo can? That would be a nice find digging around haha

 

visit the Whites Metal detector site. There are stories and photos of great finds.

 

Sounds a little archaic. I just put my pigeons and seagulls in the microwave and hit defrost.

 

I usually find those when MD in the middle of the night around prepper forts. Ammo cams with silver and spam. I don't get it. Who would steal spam