First Barber Quarter!!! Where do you guys find most of yours?

[rayray3]

Well after hunting out a civil war area and geting over 40 musketballs and 69'er bullets and numerous cannon ball pieces, buttons, and horshoes, I stumbled onto my first Barber quarter! Its a 1912 but it didnt have any of the rare marking of S or any other letter under the tail.
Very exciting to find it. I thought it would have been a CW coin but after rubbing the dirt off i saw the year. Pretty darn stoked. Middle of the woods with no trash just CW stuff and this quarter pops out.
I want more of those. Where do you guys usually find these things? Old homes, parks, fair grounds. I dont think my quarter would have been found for another 95 years being out in the middle of nowhere.

 

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[EDDE]

" First Barber Quarter!!! Where do you guys find most of yours? "
in the ground 8)

 

[AgileMJOLNIR]

I found my first Barber Quarter just last year. There was an old lot that the city was tearing up in preparation for a new apartment complex. A buddy of mine did a little research and it turned out there was an old hotel on that lot in the mid 1800's to early 1900's. I was swinging my Sovereign Elite around an BAM! There she was.....

 

[MEinWV]

Parks, Churches, but by far at the beach. I have found dozens of them at beaches, but they are all destroyed by the saltwater.
It is such a thrill to unearth a Barber! My first barber was a 1916 dime, found at Deering Oaks park in Portland, Maine with my old Heathkit detector( my first detector ), way back in 1975.

Oh yeh! You will never forget when and where you found it, by the way!

Congratulations on your first Barber!

Good luck & HH

 

[Sandman]

" First Barber Quarter!!! Where do you guys find most of yours? "
in the ground

I liked that. These are still out there to be found and you just have to get the coil over it. This was a lot of money when it was lost so they really looked for it.

 

[Mirage]

Haven't found many but the ones that have turned up came from an old Park grove, school and private home. I know one person in Massachusetts that finds them regularly in old parks.

Bob

 

[DFX-SE Gregg]

The ones I have found have been in a coin store! But wait the best is yet to come...whenever I get one my 8 year old son wants to trade me for it...so I guess I just find them in the coin store for him!

 

[BuckleBoy]

My first Barber was found--believe it or not--at a poor farm. If your state had designated "poor farms" where people could receive lodging and meals in exchange for labor, HUNT THEM! I found lots of Indian Head pennies, wheaties, buffaloes, and Mercury dimes there as well. The area had been hunted to death by at least two other detectorists, and I wasn't getting much in the way of good signals, so I crawled around on my hands and knees beneath several old sprawling forsythia and lilac bushes in the front yard. BAM! There the Barber was. Four inches deep.

Cheers!

Buckleboy

 

[MEinWV]

My first Barber was found--believe it or not--at a poor farm. If your state had designated "poor farms" where people could receive lodging and meals in exchange for labor, HUNT THEM! I found lots of Indian Head pennies, wheaties, buffaloes, and Mercury dimes there as well. The area had been hunted to death by at least two other detectorists, and I wasn't getting much in the way of good signals, so I crawled around on my hands and knees beneath several old sprawling forsythia and lilac bushes in the front yard. BAM! There the Barber was. Four inches deep.

Cheers!

Buckleboy

Congrats Buckleboy! You think like a coin! Thats what you have to do to get old coins in "hunted out" areas. Bushes, as well as tight groups of small trees and saplings were most likely not there back when the old coins were lost, and many MDers don't seem to go the extra length to crawl around in the thick stuff. I found my Morgan dollar in a heavily hunted park. It was about 4" down, between 2 saplings in a very tight thicket. I flattened my coil out and ran it sideways between the trees, getting the signal on the edge of the coil. Way to go!...........HH

 

[BuckleBoy]

My first Barber was found--believe it or not--at a poor farm. If your state had designated "poor farms" where people could receive lodging and meals in exchange for labor, HUNT THEM! I found lots of Indian Head pennies, wheaties, buffaloes, and Mercury dimes there as well. The area had been hunted to death by at least two other detectorists, and I wasn't getting much in the way of good signals, so I crawled around on my hands and knees beneath several old sprawling forsythia and lilac bushes in the front yard. BAM! There the Barber was. Four inches deep.

Cheers!

Buckleboy

Thanks WV! And a fellow Fisher user to boot! Cheers.

Buckleboy

Congrats Buckleboy! You think like a coin! Thats what you have to do to get old coins in "hunted out" areas. Bushes, as well as tight groups of small trees and saplings were most likely not there back when the old coins were lost, and many MDers don't seem to go the extra length to crawl around in the thick stuff. I found my Morgan dollar in a heavily hunted park. It was about 4" down, between 2 saplings in a very tight thicket. I flattened my coil out and ran it sideways between the trees, getting the signal on the edge of the coil. Way to go!...........HH