Post your Treasured Trash

How to start with so many coins to choose from?

Let's start here:

 

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How did you manage to ID that lol

 

My example of the infamous 1875 S 20 cent coin, which has seen better days!

 

Reply to Hotwheelsearl:

I started with someone else's work (counterstamp) and simply added (attribution) to it. This is rightly on the edge of identifiability, but the early varieties are easier if there's anything at all left.

In this case, the shape of the two (of three) fat leaves are visible and are diagnostic of Obverse 6. And if you look very closely, parts of two distinctive skinny leaves are just visible enough on the reverse to verify the F Reverse and orient the photo.

I thought I got a bargain, but it turns out the prior buyer got an even better one.

But the next owner won't. Thus, a treasure.

 

A recent addition.

 

Thank you for the early morning research project. Definitely Sheldon Reverse H which should make it S-29 or S-30.

Obverse 10 (S-29) is easy to eliminate by date position so it should be an easy S-30 call. But while it has the proper second lower hair for Obverse 11/12/17, condition issues made the two hairs above the thick lower curl look too weak and at a wrong angle and the 1 look higher than the 7 and below a void.

So I have searched for another known Obverse (Mule?) matching this obverse and found none. So that leaves me with New Die or PMD accounting for the differences with PMD the heavy favorite. PMD combined with copper can work wonders on the imagination.

 

If I considered any of mine trash I wouldn't have it... Just my opinion. Thank you

 

It's another man's trash. So you're an important part of the equation.

 

Railroad cent?

 

Can't decide if this is treasured or trash.

 

My train penny from when I was a kid.

 

I never had any design left. Just a flat piece of copper.

 

I remember finding a coin in the dirt at a spot in Bali when I visited. I made the mistake of trying to clean it, and now I don't know what II did with it. It was an Indonesian coin, for sure, but probably worthless.

 

Your welcome! I hope you had fun investigating.

 

Railroad Cent 1793-1804. Obverse is rail side and completely obliterated.
Reverse was train side and shows some details like ONE CENT, 1/100 and RICA.
Got to look close for a minute or so.
I think it is a Draped Bust Cent, but am not sure. Oldest rail coin I have.
I unique piece for sure.

 

Definitely a Draped Bust. There is actually a substantial amount of detail left for a RR coin.

 

Definitely my Treasure, but I don't know if another man would consider it trash. Perhaps for condition?

 

Not treasure in it's strictest sense, but I treasure it as someone discarded it and I didn't have this one