Something you don't see everyday....

[Coindude]

So, I was taking this picture today, had the camera setup with a 10 second time delay. And lo and behold what comes running across the slab at a most inopportune moment. Anyone else ever have anything like this happen before? Oh and just for your info, this is the $5 version, so the coin is about the size of a dime.

[x2rider]

I'm glad you put it on the web, . Get it WEB . Nevermind

[mkman123]

Love spiders

[cpm9ball]

It's a good thing it didn't walk across the coin. You'd have eight fingerprints instead of one.

 

Chris

[James_OldeTowne]

 

I hope it isn't a brown recluse!

[Coindude]

I'm glad you put it on the web, . Get it WEB . Nevermind

Haha! Nice one!!

 

I hope it isn't a brown recluse!

James, not sure what kind it was, but I know what kind it is..... DEAD!!!

[cpm9ball]

 

I hope it isn't a brown recluse!

 

I don't think it's a brown recluse. It doesn't have the "violin" pointing toward the abdomen.

 

Chris

 

[19Lyds]

 

I hope it isn't a brown recluse!

Not a brown recluse.

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The Brown Recluse has a distinctive fiddle on its thorax and has only 6 eyes arranged in pairs versus 8 for other spiders. The legs on the Recluse are much longer than whats shown in the OP's photo anyway.

[Buffalo Head]

Just nasty! I hate spiders !! But I've got to say I love that gold Buff more than I hate spiders!!!!!! Must have going at a pretty good clip, it's blurry....

[tmoneyeagles-migration]

Never had an insect get in the way of shooting a coin before, but my cat gets in the way, and moves my lamps around with her feet all the time. Annoying, yes, but just a tad cute.

Wish I could say the same for that spider...YUCK!

 

 

[michael]

i love it

 

i sometimes add these to soups and chowders

 

 

[HiHoAudio]

Cool photo!

 

Spiders don't bother me. If you have them you usually also have little bugs running around that the spiders will be happy to dispose of free of charge.

 

On the other hand, snakes...

[James_OldeTowne]

The Brown Recluse has a distinctive fiddle on its thorax and has only 6 eyes arranged in pairs versus 8 for other spiders. The legs on the Recluse are much longer than whats shown in the OP's photo anyway.

If I remember correctly, the violin marker for the brown recluse appears only as it matures. Immature specimens do not show it!

 

I once lived in a house that turned out to be severely infested with them. Many mornings, I woke up with spider bites. Apparently, I do not have the horrible reaction to them that some folks do, but the effects can be devastating. A policeman friend of mine was bit on the leg by one many years ago, and he has carried an ugly 2" cavity ever since. It simply rotted away part of his leg.

[cpm9ball]

Cool photo!

 

Spiders don't bother me. If you have them you usually also have little bugs running around that the spiders will be happy to dispose of free of charge.

 

On the other hand, snakes...

 

This little 5-footer was nice enough to pose for me before I put him in the grass.

 

Chris

[19Lyds]

Cool photo!

 

Spiders don't bother me. If you have them you usually also have little bugs running around that the spiders will be happy to dispose of free of charge.

 

On the other hand, snakes...

 

This little 5-footer was nice enough to pose for me before I put him in the grass.

 

Chris

This nasty little critter got beaten with a push broom.

 

[TomB]

Very cool! You should have written that it was embedded in the plastic of the slab and would have gotten some interesting comments.

[cpm9ball]

Very cool! You should have written that it was embedded in the plastic of the slab and would have gotten some interesting comments.

 

If that had been the case, he could have sent it to Mark for grading. He's had previous experience grading critters.

 

Chris

[BROADSTRUCK]

Yummy... As nothing better then a lil snack while imaging coins!

[Conder101]

i sometimes add these to soups and chowders

Bullion?

 

 

This little 5-footer was nice enough to pose for me before I put him in the grass.

Lovely markings, What kind was he?

[cpm9ball]

i sometimes add these to soups and chowders

Bullion?

 

 

This little 5-footer was nice enough to pose for me before I put him in the grass.

Lovely markings, What kind was he?

 

Corn snake!

[Joe Swindell-migration]

Looks like BELT material to me. Maybe make a buckle out of a 1900 Morgan haha