A pair of octagenarians hitting the bottle at silver farm

halfdime · Feb 11, 2009

After more than a month with snow and ice, it's almost all gone! Today was in the 60's, with occasional sun, so I headed to a place that never fails to produce - the silver farm. Winter has opened up areas that are overgrown the rest of the year, and I was able to view an aerial photo of the farm from 1938 or 39. This photo showed areas that were then wide open, close to other areas that have held lots of silver and wheat pennies. With a couple hours to hunt today, I drove merrily over to begin another season at the farm :wink:

. It didn't take long to pop out the first of two 1929 wheats; you'll notice that they're now 80 years old. This soda bottle (or, as we call it, pop bottle) was a surface find under some ancient pines. Not that ancient, I guess; they don't appear in the 70 year old photo. Barq's Root Beer is still in business, though this one doesn't specify that particular flavor. This particular bottle of pop was produced right here; I'll have to make some inquiries as to where the bottling plant was. Ended the day with three wheats and another 36 cents in modern; clad quarters are always disappointing at the silver farm. You'll see by the totals below that I've found my share of silver quarters there. Hoping to get out again tomorrow or Friday, weather permitting.

Jack_MIghtyheart · Feb 11, 2009

I love the slogan on the soda bottle..."It's good"

beetle662 · Feb 11, 2009

Glad ya were able to get out. Congrats on the finds! The old Barq's bottle is very cool!

Nana40 · Feb 11, 2009

Always exciting to see what you'll find at the Silver Farm! Great to see your season has started. :thumbsup:

That's a great bottle! :icon_pirat:

You may need to bring along the Silver Princess to get that silver luck going! :wink:

Nana

Detectingfreak · Feb 11, 2009

Looks like that farm is still producing! Very nice job

flylaps · Feb 11, 2009

It's nice just to get out of the house here in western PA.
Hopefully the snow stays away for a while.
Can't wait to see more silver from the silver farm.

Matt

ivan salis · Feb 11, 2009

barq's is still a good root beer in my veiw --right up the with a & w . both are great with a nice rum by the way. -- call it a R & R. :wink:

(rum & rootbeer) --* a real pirates drink --- arrghh an arrrgh-- (cuz it tends to creep up on ya taking you unawares.)

kdismuke1 · Feb 11, 2009

NICE FIND. :thumbsup:

halfdime · Feb 11, 2009

Mr. Pappagiorgio said:
Henry ~

Glad you got out my friend ...

Things are looking good for my first Sunday hunt of the year this weekend ...

Continue to Persevere ~ Nick

Nick, I'll be looking for a good report Sunday! Good luck.

jethro1982 · Feb 12, 2009

I'll have to say, Barq's is good root beer. It isn't quite mint ginger ale, but it's good. :thumbsup:

pookie-princess of rust · Feb 12, 2009

that sounds good. :P :tongue3:

nice finds!

ivan salis said:
barq's is still a good root beer in my veiw --right up the with a & w . both are great with a nice rum by the way. -- call it a R & R. (rum & rootbeer) --* a real pirates drink --- arrghh an arrrgh-- (cuz it tends to creep up on ya taking you unawares.)

halfdime · Feb 12, 2009

jethro1982 said:
I'll have to say, Barq's is good root beer. It isn't quite mint ginger ale, but it's good.

Nothing is quite like Mint Ginger Ale (you forgot to capitalize!). I looked at Barq's at the store today; it is now a Coca-Cola product. I assume the soda giant bought our little company sometime back and can still claim "since 1898."

Born Free · Feb 12, 2009

"It's Good" ! Obviously from before there were marketing departments or marketing firms to come up with a saying that has pizzazz. But the drink is still around, so guess they didn't need one!
"It's good find!" :icon_jokercolor: