{"id":2959,"date":"2021-05-29T11:26:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T15:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/?p=2959"},"modified":"2021-05-29T11:27:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T15:27:21","slug":"first-seated-half-dime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/archives\/2959","title":{"rendered":"First Seated Half Dime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally got another one off my bucket list, the elusive (at least for me) seated half dime.<\/p>\n<p>This is from a field I have been hunting off and on for the past 3 years; it is huge, and has given up 10 coppers and a handful of IHs, but been stingy on the silver, haven given up only a rosie.<\/p>\n<p>It was only an inch or two deep, in very rocky soil above a large rock which prevented it from sinking. Its a bit scratched up, but we&#8217;ll take it. Its a decent looking coin. I don&#8217;t think the scratches are my fault, as they show tarnish; I imagine its from years of large farm machines rolling over the rocky soil.<\/p>\n<p>I am so happy to find one of these.\u00a0 For some reason, by dream coin when I started to detect was the seated half dime.\u00a0 Even tho I&#8217;ve found a draped bust half dime, and seated dimes, quarters, and a half, this one has always eluded me until now.\u00a0 Now just need the 20 center and the dollar to complete the seated series.\u00a0 Good luck with that<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/052821.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2960\" title=\"052821\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/052821.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/052821.jpg 344w, https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/052821-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally got another one off my bucket list, the elusive (at least for me) seated half dime. This is from a field I have been hunting off and on for the past 3 years; it is huge, and has given &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/archives\/2959\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2959"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2962,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions\/2962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}