1913 barber dime error

I agree with everyone who says this was a coin that was made into a pin, by soldering a pin clasp onto the back. As others said, silver solder was used to do it.
I have many coins like this because I collect coins that have been made into jewelry. Not only pins, but bracelets, necklaces, rings, watch fobs, money clips, bolo tie slides, and other things. It's all silver and silver is my main focus, but coins-into-jewelry has become a fun source of collectables for me.
I wear some of it, but since most of it is made with women and children in mind, most of my collection is too small for me to wear.

Please don't get your feelings hurt when people describe your item in a less-than-celebratory manner. Remember most of these guys have seen it almost all before.
Though what you have may seem very, very special to you, it is actually quite commonplace to most of us. As I said, I see this all the time.
Please keep coming back and posting pix of anything you find that you have questions about or need answers for.
We are all happy to help.

 

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It's getting like we have to give psychological counseling now when we answer questions. I'm not criticizing your reply, I'm criticizing why it's needed. This is an empathetic and understanding reply, and I'll note it got two "likes" to this point, too, but is it really necessary we supplement our advice with psychological counseling, now, or risk getting chewed out for it when we don't? We're coin collectors, not psychologists. For that matter, we're not detectives, either. People come on here with latent psychological problems underlying their questions on their coins, why is it incumbent on us to deal with those, like we're mental health care professionals, or some such things? This has nothing to do with being rude, that's completely different. Rudeness, personal attacks, ill-manners, all deserve to be called out, in whatever the forum. But I'll not wet-nurse anybody, here, and neither will I encourage that type. If a person wants advice on his or her coins, I stand ready to give it to them. If they're so psychologically-fragile they have to fall to pieces or go into an emotional tirade when they're not getting the answers they want, they got a problem, deal with it, and quit bothering us. There's my position. I'll neither encourage, nor welcome that. If anything, I'll recommend they seek mental health counseling, then come back. I'll not spend my time here coaching anybody on those issues, as though I even knew how, because, in my opinion, anyway, it only encourages more, and it doesn't resolve one thing.