Big Silver!

goldencoin · May 31, 2007

Hello Treasurenet!

My dad had a softball game at the old local park. I have been MD'ing it for a year and a half and been quite please, a few pieces of silver, many wheats, and bunches of trinkets. However, i still had stuff to find

Clad kept popping up right and left. All the kids have left except one and i got a half dollar/dollar signal. Usually these are trash, but i try to dig everything. I plug the ground with my trusty camp shovel and used my pinpionter to figure out where is was. It was just beneath the dirt at the bottom of the hole. I pushed the dirt away and saw a shiny disk. At first i thought it was a token or a chunk of aluminum. I popped it out and a coin shape flipped out. I picked it up and just about had a heat attack. It was an 1898 silver Barber Half Dollar!!! I controlled my excitement and told the kid to keep quite and i sent him away with an old Canadian cent. I MD a bit more and found 1 and a half keys and a Chuck E. Cheese token.

ModernMiner · Jun 1, 2007

What a fantastic silver find!!! Congrats to you. Don't see too many of those pop up here on TN. Great job.
-MM-

goldencoin · Jun 1, 2007

history hunter said:
Outstanding barber half.How many have you found so far?

This is my only coin from that period...it must have just fallen out of the sky, because i have only found 5 or 6 relics that are even close to that date. My theory is that it is just one of many coins from a grove or moved cemetery from the 100 year old church across the street.

ELVISFAN said:
NICE BUT IT LOOKS LIKE LADY LIBERTY GOT PUNCHED IN THE FACE..I FOUND AN 1907-D BARBER HALF 4/14/06 MYSELF

ya, i didn't do it however, so i don't feel that bad about it.

I'm so happy i found it. I haven't found a V nickel, indian, or any other barber. I have only found a few teen wheats, an old ladies' buckle, an 1800's coffin handle (I'm starting to think i should rebury that

), and a few chunks of stuff that look old. I'm amazed that i missed this for so long. It was a solid hit in a park I've been md'ing for a year an a half, but only a few week with the DFX....which i have to credit this discovery too

Thanks T-Net for all the replies

HH
-GC

COUNTRY GIRL · Jun 1, 2007

I'd stick with that park for a while longer. Very nice find. Keep up the god work!!!!!

Dman · Jun 1, 2007

Nice half dollar

coolcash2004 · Jun 1, 2007

WOW! Amazing find GC!

I am still waiting for my first silver (or silver half)

CONGRADULATIONS!

-CC

Mirage · Jun 1, 2007

Very Sweet.

Hard to believe, huh? I know when I found my first Barber Half I just stared at it in unbelief. You just never know what is going to turn up where.

Keep at it. Sounds like that park has a lot of potential.