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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Detecto92, post: 1711972, member: 75105&quot;]I showed this a while back, but got some better pics of it today when I was at my Grandpa&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>He found this while clearing out brush, the large nick in it, is from a sickle. </p><p><br /></p><p>The metal is most likely silver. Too hard to be lead, no rust, so it&#039;s not steel, and stainless didn&#039;t exist back then.</p><p><br /></p><p>Back then, counterfeiters would take a sheet of silver, hammer a Morgan dollar into both sides to make the dies. They would cut a circle of lead from a jar lid, then hammer the &quot;die&quot; into the lead on both sides. Cut reeds into the side with a knife, then plate it silver. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s833.photobucket.com/user/Phototaker_2010/media/My%20Coins/DSCN7224.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s833.photobucket.com/user/Phototaker_2010/media/My%20Coins/DSCN7224.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz257/Phototaker_2010/My%20Coins/DSCN7224.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><a href="http://s833.photobucket.com/user/Phototaker_2010/media/My%20Coins/DSCN7223.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s833.photobucket.com/user/Phototaker_2010/media/My%20Coins/DSCN7223.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz257/Phototaker_2010/My%20Coins/DSCN7223.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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