10/19/08 Well I found my first Barber today!!! - Video added

[treasurefiend]

I'm so happy I went out to the woods and meet up with bilt46. We walked all over the woods hunting. I found a lot of old shotgun shells but no coins. We moved again and again, finally we went over to one of my secret areas and within about 15 min I found a 1908o BARBER QUARTER!!! When I first got the signal it was strong so I called Built46 over to check it out, he got a low tone, so I checked it again. I got a low foil tone too... What the heck is going on?? Then I checked it again and it was a strong silver signal, my SE was screaming at me. It was under neath a small fallen tree's roots down like 4 or 5 inches deep. The first thing I found was a crumpled up foil ball, that was the low tone that threw us off. With that trash out of the way I swept the coil over again, this time it was loud and clear!!! I pulled out a bug clump of dirt, I crumpled it to break it up and I saw the top of Ms. Liberty's head looking at me!!! I was so excited that I just kept saying "Its a Barber, Its a Barber"!!! Well here is the pix, I also have video of it too, I will get that up on here tonight!!!

I am still a little shaky, man what a feeling!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g98VvUgspo8









Here it is after I washed it up.





Here is my days finds. The coke bottle is like from the 70's or so, its thick glass, but the writing is just painted on, but I'll keep it. The little food jar I kept because it has embossing on the bottom. It says: Aug. 5th 1919 Pat.

[Goio]

Wow!! nice barber quarter TF, Congrats!!! Great job

[twistidd]

Wow! Hey, what did I tell you man Did I not prophesize this event? I TOLD you you'd find a Barber coin there! And it being a quarter, well, even better! That area has really produced well. That's probably near where I found the SL quarter, not touched much by others. That is awesome! Congratulations, I bet you were shaking. Dig any signal that sounds iffy, you'll dig a lot of trash for sure, but look what else came out of it. Can't wait to get back out there!

Joe

[treasurefiend]

Thanks guys, yes you did prophesize this event!!! Man was it nice out there today, bugs are 99% dead, nice and cool, and most of the plants are dying. Yea we got to hit it again soon!!!

[Pocket Spill]

Congratulations TF! Looks like this site continues to produce and the finds are even getting better!

[Mayo South Elgin]

Wow that's sweet!
Congrats on the awesome Barber!
Was this area near the recent hunt?

The shotgun shells and the bullet and the whiskey bottle top look like they were from the same area I wandered into. Since I had no idea what was where (I had the map but couldn't figure out where I was) I didn't get any coinage. I had a blast anyways though!

Speakin of Barbers, I need a trim...

[Lowbatts]

Alright Fiend! Man you can't underestimate the problem of masking enough. Wonder how many junk signals are hiding more good ones like that out there?

[mikewaz]

Way to go bud !
Those finds are getting older and older.
Mike

[-MURPH-]

wtg on the barber find

[makton]

Congrats, TFiend!
Cross that one off the list. Now go find some more!

Makton

[Brett]

Holy smokes man!!! Congrats on your large barber! Can't beat that feeling of digging silver and 100 years old too!

Hope you get some more loot from your secret spot HH!

[treasurefiend]

Wow that's sweet!
Congrats on the awesome Barber!
Was this area near the recent hunt?

The shotgun shells and the bullet and the whiskey bottle top look like they were from the same area I wandered into. Since I had no idea what was where (I had the map but couldn't figure out where I was) I didn't get any coinage. I had a blast anyways though!

Speakin of Barbers, I need a trim...

Yep, same area as the big hunt.

[mastereagle22]

Yes!

There it is!!! ZIPPER PULL!!!!!!!

Nice Barber too.

[twistidd]

What is the relevance of a zipper pull, if you don't mind me asking? I see people get all juiced up over finding these, and I don't understand why. Help me out here!

Joe

[Brett]

Zipper pulls are just kind of odd and unique. I like to try to find different colors myself. I got a white one the other day