Found last week but wanted to share this 1899 Barber Quarter

testing123 · Jun 14, 2013

Found this last week. Maybe VF details? Was quite the surprise coming out. Wish more of these would show up! HH all!

John_Deere · Jun 14, 2013

That looks really nice! Congrats and HH!

Erving · Jun 14, 2013

Nice looking Barber with great detail.. Congrats! :icon_thumleft:

oddrod · Jun 14, 2013

Beautiful......

wvwildman · Jun 14, 2013

nice find congrats HH

Mi$terG · Jun 14, 2013

Wow, what a great quarter! Nice find!

Evolution · Jun 14, 2013

The barber coins are sweet and it looks like you got a nice one in good condition. Congrats! Plus...seeing that "18" instead of the "19" is priceless. :thumbsup:

mr helton · Jun 14, 2013

That's in such great shape congrats on the find!

Argentium · Jun 14, 2013

Great coin , Strong VF I should think ! I've only found Barber dimes - and no 1800's silver yet .

Maniac Detector · Jun 15, 2013

Nice! I would agree with very fine. Go back to that spot and grid it off, then hit it in a difernt direction.

kevin hoffman · Jun 15, 2013

i buy coins and seeing a barber that is not slick is rare!!

Tin Foil · Jun 15, 2013

Great find testing123! Can you tell us a litte about the site (park, private home, ect)? Thanks and HH!

CMDiamonddawg · Jun 15, 2013

one that is not smoother than a babies butt is a gift from Heaven above ,

she is purdy nice 8-)

& never saw too much circulation ,

good one for sure !!

:skullflag:

dawg

jewelerguy · Jun 15, 2013

not too often they are found with full Liberty on the headband. that is beautiful :icon_thumright:

Trezurehunter · Jun 15, 2013

That's one nice looking Barber. Most come out of the ground a lot smoother looking than yours.

testing123 · Jun 15, 2013

Maniac Detector said:
Nice! I would agree with very fine. Go back to that spot and grid it off, then hit it in a difernt direction.

Tin Foil said:
Great find testing123! Can you tell us a litte about the site (park, private home, ect)? Thanks and HH!

Thanks everyone! It was found at a park that was new to me. The problem is there are bottle caps and zincolns/copper lincolns everywhere, seems like two to four every swing. It'll probably take 10 trips to make a dent in all the junk. It's actually kind of de-motivating thinking about all that junk, but there could be more good stuff there. In fact, after the quarter was extracted, I scanned the plug after I put it back, and the detector nulled. So, I'm thinking the winter may have shifted the quarter enough away from the iron to be picked up. Probably why other detectorists missed it in the past.