Barber and seated spill!!!!!!!!!

MangoAve said:
I been using a college site that has historical maps as well as a few arial maps and superimposing some of them onto Google or Bing maps. It's been a pain and wish there was a program that could do it automatically. It does help if you know where to look to see the roads that no longer exist. But even then, the place I went a few weeks ago with Brian, that Dan took him to, are not on the 1868 map I got so that was even more research on his part. There was an interesting find on the arial image from the site I had, but It's a bird's eye view so It will be tricky to pinpoint on the modern map where this place used to be in 1908. Btw, thanks for the link, however does it zoom to clearer pic when you have an account with the site?
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There doesn't appear to be any benefit to creating an account (which is free) as best as I can tell....but I did anyway. You can zoom in closer, "overlay" the current roads, then set the "compare" at dissolve so you can select two maps/photos to compare and fade from one to the other. It could be much better but I just like being ablee to see where new roads fall on old maps....pretty helpful.
 
I was not aware the account was free. Mostly because at the top is shows a button to purchase the map. I did check that feature after you mentioned it and it does seem pretty helpful. Thanks for the link. The only quirk I see is pretty much what I ran into with overlaying manually. It seems some roads don't always line up for some reason. Maybe their survey techniques back then weren't as precise as they are today accounting for things like curve of the earth and elevational differences. Hope the link I gave you helps.
 
WOW, that is the best spill ever. Your ability to cover that hole up and handle your parenting duties.....:thumbsup02:. Hoping that your crusty coin is a shield nickel. I would be walking that path till the very end.
 
aloldstuff said:
WOW, that is the best spill ever. Your ability to cover that hole up and handle your parenting duties.....:thumbsup02:. Hoping that your crusty coin is a shield nickel. I would be walking that path till the very end.
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Actually it turned out to be a V nickel and I am very happy about that becuase that is a first for me! I have found a shield but never a V. The Barber quarter and the V were both firsts for me in that spill. Couldn't be happier!
 
That's an impressive group of coins. It's neat that the dates are all close and the coins look to be in great shape. That spill had to hurt in the late 1800's. great finds WD
 
wisconsin digger said:
That's an impressive group of coins. It's neat that the dates are all close and the coins look to be in great shape. That spill had to hurt in the late 1800's. great finds WD
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I found a calculator on the Net that says that the value of 80 cents in 1895 is now about $23. Yeah, that was big oops for someone.
 
Man oh man...killer coin spill, especially the seateds. Congrats!!!!
I have found only 3 seated dimes and they all came from the same site, but not the same hole.
 
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