You never know what youll find!!

Clarky821

Greenie
Apr 27, 2014
15
48
Southern Northumberland County, PA
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Garrett AT PRO (Current)
Barska Elite Edition
Primary Interest:
Metal Detecting
You never know what you'll find!!

Hunted this weekend at a baseball field where I played Little League ball back in the late 80's/early 90's. After 2 hours of hunting, and digging up modern day coinage 6-10 inches deep, I uncovered my first Barber coin (pictured).........2 inches deep!!! This just goes to show that you never know what you're going to find, or where. Also found this silver quarter about 10-15 yards away from where I found the Barber dime.........10 inches in the ground!! Happy Hunting everyone!!!

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wkrp43

Hero Member
May 24, 2013
812
670
western NC
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F2...BH
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All Treasure Hunting
Nice digs. Got my first barber abt a month ago. Kudos!
 

CoinandRelicMan

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Apr 3, 2011
3,979
2,244
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E-Trac, Safari, Cortes, Musketeer, Makro Pin-Pointer
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Nice digs , need more silver producing sites here !! :occasion14: Tried some outfields last fall they were aluminum can mines.
 

Garrett424

Silver Member
Jun 20, 2014
3,164
2,284
Granite, Maryland
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Teknetics Omega 8000
Teknetics Delta 4000,
Deteknix XPointer,
Fiskar's Big Grip Digger & my old Army Trench shovel for the tough jobs
Primary Interest:
Metal Detecting
Beautiful.

And you're right. I dug my oldest coin ever recently, a 1787 NJ Copper. It was less than 2 inches down.
I couldn't believe it.

You're right you just never know.
 

Loco-Digger

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Jun 16, 2014
11,827
17,744
Northern O-H-I-O
🥇 Banner finds
1
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F75 LTD, 1280X Aquanaut, & a Patriot (back-up/loaner)
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Metal Detecting
Congrats on the silvers :occasion14: I pulled my 1st barber out of an old football field (3 silver dimes in the same hole/possible coin spill).,2 Mercs (1920, 1941, and a Barber (1902).
 

Msbeepbeep

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Jun 24, 2012
15,787
24,131
MA
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M-6, pro pointer, pistol probe
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Nice! Congrats!

Maybe grid search the area the old silver came from from two directions.
 

Bass

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Jan 20, 2013
3,076
1,811
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Nice finds. There's likely more there
 

qaela4

Bronze Member
Jul 24, 2014
1,379
1,606
Keene, New Hampshire
Detector(s) used
Bounty Hunter Quick Silver,Tesoro Silver Sabre uMax.
Primary Interest:
Metal Detecting
Nice finds, got my first barber a couple weeks ago, same year but yours is in WAY better condition.
 

46Wheat

Silver Member
May 23, 2014
3,648
3,357
Upstate NY
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Minelab Etrac / Equinox 800 / 8.5x11 DD and 5x8 DD coil /
Garrett ProPointer / Lesche Digger
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cjon455

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Jun 4, 2012
9,207
11,541
Northeast PA
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Minelab Etrac
Garrett Propointer
Garrett Propointer-AT
Sampson T handle shovel
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Very cool, I've had wierd days like that, clad deeper than silver, wheats at 2", etc etc.

Killer silvers!
 

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