1896-S Barber Half - It was meant to happen

[mountainplayer]

Hi All,

Been a long time since I posted. I've only hunted a few times in the past month because I'm fresh out of new sites. Yesterday the weather was so nice, I decided to grab the detector, get in the car and see where it decided to take me. I ended up at an old school that I've hunted many, many times in the past. I've had some luck there, with lots of early wheat's, a 1911 Canada cent, and a 1914 Barber dime. I'm not sure of the date of the original school, but my grandmother attended it in the 20's.

There is a small area near the main building that I mostly avoided, because its in a built-up area where fill was brought in when the old schoolhouse was torn down to make room for the new building (1950's).

I was going to grid the area, so I lined myself up with a drain pipe to my back and turned on the machine. Swept the coil TWICE and got the signal. The ground is bad here, and anything over 6" deep sounds like crap, but this signal actually sounded really good. Cursor bounced all over the place, and never did get into the top right corner, so I was stunned when I pulled a Barber half out of the hole.

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[PA-Hunter]

Nice find, never hurts to go back to places you hunted before, you just might find something good lol.

[ridgecrawler]

If all that is from the same site keep hunting it , there has to be more goodies hiding. Nice find, good luck.

[worldtalker]

mountainplayer, I can hear what you said now. Been a few halfs from west and east coast posted lately. Their is NO way a person could cover it all, ALWAYS a spot you missed! COOL find man. God Bless Chris

[Nutriasub]

Love the barbers, of any size, they are beautiful
Congrats!

[Wldbil]

Nice find... Congrats

[gold nuggets]

I was so pleased to hear that you found the 1896-s Barber Half dollar MP....
and so regrettably GREEN with envy at the same time. You found the one
Barber coin that I haven't found yet and it looks great!! Hope we can get
together for a hunt or two this summer. Big Congrats To You my friend!!
Gold Nuggets

[mountainplayer]

I was so pleased to hear that you found the 1896-s Barber Half dollar MP....
and so regrettably GREEN with envy at the same time. You found the one
Barber coin that I haven't found yet and it looks great!! Hope we can get
together for a hunt or two this summer. Big Congrats To You my friend!!
Gold Nuggets

I forgot to tell you this. After I dug the coin, I was worried that the dirt stuck to the coin would cause scratches if I put it in my pocket, so I walked back and locked it up in my car. I spent the rest of the hunt looking at my car every couple of minutes to make sure no one was trying to break in! I wouldn't have minded so much if they stole the car, but my new coin....hands off!

Want to trade for your SEATED half?

[gold nuggets]

Want to trade for your SEATED half?

Naw...think I'll pass on that one MP. But you can look at it when I come down your way.....providing you will let me see your 1896-s Barber Half. LOL Ya done really good on this one.....congrats again.

[oldsalty19]

[Captaindoodle]

Very nice big silver!

HH,
CD

[jewelerguy]

that's awesome, and worth a fair amount of green too. congrats!

[GetReal]

Nice finds

[CoilFisher]

Nice halve! Congrats to you!

Funny how old haunts still pop out a coin here and there.
There are a lot of square feet missed over the years...almost impossible to detect the "whole" of anything anywhere with 100% accuracy.

[Dig Daddy]

Nice half !!!

[Hunter]

Excellent Find!!

[mountainplayer]

that's awesome, and worth a fair amount of green too. congrats!

Thanks for the comments, everybody. Jewelerguy: I'm not much when it comes to values, but I did find something on PCGS that said that the S series is fairly rare. It listed grade 4 (whatever that means) at $115.00.

My daughter wants to know if I can sell this coin and buyer her a car. I told her possibly something better than a matchbox car, but not as nice as the Barbie dream Corvette. Any thoughts?

[CASPER-2]