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Hey folks!
10 years ago last month I found my first Barber coin while detecting (http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/today-s-finds/134435-went-dentist-found-barber.html). Funny enough, it took me until last year to find my second (to be fair I had a pretty long lay-off in there).
My brother and I hit some new land today and I was hoping it was old enough to be Barber (and if we had DParsons05’s luck maybe even old enough to be Seated) territory.
On our drive there I told my brother that I hadn’t seen a Barber Quarter un-earthed in a while. That ended up foreshadowing good things to come.
We got rolling and my first good hit was the old Japanese Coin. After Googling around I believe it is a 1938 Emperor Hirohito Japanese One Sen. Maybe a WWII relic? A unique find for me. Shortly after I’m getting a surface high tone. Out pops this very cool 5c trade token to “Pastime” in Bremerton. I don’t find trade tokens often so I was jazzed, my day was already made. Just after finding that my brother got a deep high tone and found another of the tokens. Crazy!
I chatted with a friendly neighbor and got permission to do a little grass in front of his place “as long as I was gone before 1 pm because I’m throwing a party today.” Aye aye sir! Glad I asked. I didn’t find a ton there but I did nab the find of the day, a 1909-D Barber Quarter! It’s a pretty good looker and an exact date match to my first Barber from Summer 2009.
It was made even better by the fact I wasn’t expecting it. It was a solid 12-47 down around 4 inches which is how a silver quarter should sound, but I’ve been fooled by several deep copper pennies with similar readings recently.
I didn’t find much of interest after that but felt good about calling it a day a while later.
I also found a couple toys that have seen the worse end of a lawnmower. A Tootsie toy car and a big marble.
All in all, a great day to be out there and even more fun to share it with my brother.
Until next time my friends!
-W
10 years ago last month I found my first Barber coin while detecting (http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/today-s-finds/134435-went-dentist-found-barber.html). Funny enough, it took me until last year to find my second (to be fair I had a pretty long lay-off in there).
My brother and I hit some new land today and I was hoping it was old enough to be Barber (and if we had DParsons05’s luck maybe even old enough to be Seated) territory.
On our drive there I told my brother that I hadn’t seen a Barber Quarter un-earthed in a while. That ended up foreshadowing good things to come.
We got rolling and my first good hit was the old Japanese Coin. After Googling around I believe it is a 1938 Emperor Hirohito Japanese One Sen. Maybe a WWII relic? A unique find for me. Shortly after I’m getting a surface high tone. Out pops this very cool 5c trade token to “Pastime” in Bremerton. I don’t find trade tokens often so I was jazzed, my day was already made. Just after finding that my brother got a deep high tone and found another of the tokens. Crazy!
I chatted with a friendly neighbor and got permission to do a little grass in front of his place “as long as I was gone before 1 pm because I’m throwing a party today.” Aye aye sir! Glad I asked. I didn’t find a ton there but I did nab the find of the day, a 1909-D Barber Quarter! It’s a pretty good looker and an exact date match to my first Barber from Summer 2009.
It was made even better by the fact I wasn’t expecting it. It was a solid 12-47 down around 4 inches which is how a silver quarter should sound, but I’ve been fooled by several deep copper pennies with similar readings recently.
I didn’t find much of interest after that but felt good about calling it a day a while later.
I also found a couple toys that have seen the worse end of a lawnmower. A Tootsie toy car and a big marble.
All in all, a great day to be out there and even more fun to share it with my brother.
Until next time my friends!
-W
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