Dug a Barber Dime out of Golden Gate Park S.F.!

Cool Hand Fluke · Dec 24, 2010

Hit Golden Gate Park for 6 hours today and only found one silver coin. It's a 1902-P Barber Dime! Also got 4 wheaties and about $7.00 in clad coins.

For for first time since hunting in this park in over 20 years a park police officer came by and kicked me out! He said I couldn't dig holes in the park! While loading up my car and ready to leave he pulled his police car behind my car changed his mind! He was on his phone with his suppervisor and said it was OK to hunt as long as I didn't dig any holes, I had to find only "surface coins" only.? I continued hunting just like I always do and looked over my shoulder every 5 minutes or so.

sniffer · Dec 26, 2010

even after all this time, you can still find silver in that park. can you imagine how much is still there?

Tom_in_CA · Dec 26, 2010

Thanx for the heads up Mike. Congrats on yet another barber. Hey, but dontcha know you're only supposed to get S mints around here? haha :laughing7:

The issue of SF city owned parks, is strictly a matter of who you run into. Because there is no prohibitions that specifically say "no detecting" (as is true for most cities across the USA). The issue will always be something along the lines of "destruction" or "vandalism" clauses. So in my mind, so long as we leave no trace of our presence, then technically, there is no foul. Now the issue of course, is the temporary retreival procress, doh! While YOU AND I may know we'll end leaving no trace, the average public joe is transfixed on the interim process. It's just the knee-jerk reaction. And probably not one we can win, in a debate of logic unfortunately. So I hate to say it, but oftentime, the best tactic is to steer clear of busy-bodies, from the git-go. Like, as you say, you can detect......so...... just don't be in the middle of retrivals when busy-bodies are present. Or, steer clear of just that one person (as they may have made note of their particular shift, or their particular geographic beat in that humongous park). Because as you and others here have said, most all of the other cops and gardeners there, really don't care, or even pay a second glance.