All I can see is the date. Looks like someone put this cent on a RR track and everything except the date took a direct rollover. Anyone else have any RR track coins (or trolley track coins for us ancient folk) that are readable?
Since its actually got a date-the only thing that survived lol i would say yes because of the shape and its from the 60's.
What a unique find. I have a small box of "RR Coins" that a friend gave me, but I would have to go through all of them to see if there are any with a just the date undamaged. Definitely a neat conversation piece.
First coin I ever found with a metal detector. 3.1 grams. Located within 50 ft. of am old discontinued spur.
There's an Amtrak Pacific Surfliner track through Montecito that I place a lincoln on every time I walk across the tracks to get to Butterfly Beach. I've yet to find it after the train passes. What's the trick to finding the coins after they've been flattened? I do remember it was never a problem when we did it as kids growing up in New Orleans. What's changed? lol
I’ve often thought of that myself. I’ve no present recollection of how I found mine but I did. We’d do this quite a lot as kids. You just have to keep your eye on it then scour through that general area after the train passes. I think we’d find ours, or at least most of them.
I've got a really nice cent somewhere I think, I'll look around for it on the weekend. I think everything is readable if I remember correctly. put it on the tracks and found it right after myself. the train did not derail....
I put a dime on top of a penny, then put them on the track. Waited for the train to go by but I never found them. they must have stuck to the wheel, I guess. I never did it again.
That's what the adults said would happen. Probably just trying to keep us kids from getting close to trains. Obviously the chances of a derail didn't deter us.