Ricardo_NY1
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Generous Silver Coin Day That Included A Barber Quarter & Dime/Updated with 2-10
With a forecast for rain, I decided to go out anyways. I hate sitting at home kicking myself in the butt because I decided to listen to the weatherman, yet the weather turned out good. I prepared regardless with a pastic bottle for the back of my machine and some plastic bags to wrap around the housing. It was a good move because it would drizzle on and off. In any event, the day was perfectly detectable, and it turned out to be a whole lot better than expected. Things started out really slow, with over an hour in and nothing good turning up. Finally, a mercury dime comes up followed by a couple others including a 1910 Barber dime. At one point, I managed to find a surface silver Rosie (Four coins caught on film) that was laying right under the leaves. This could've been a detectorist's drop, only the dime knows. Up to seven coins, I get what appears to be a good dime signal. I dig through the rockiest plug and out comes what I at first thought was a token of some sort. It wasn't shiny and pretty beat up, typical of alot of the aluminum and other tokens I've found. It took a while before I realized that what I had was in fact a Barber Quarter. First Barber Quarter, first connection into 1800's silver and best total silver day. (2/9/2008). There is a part two to this story because the next day it was Tom's turn. To give him the opportunity to post, all I will say is that as soon as he was unleashed...........he pulled one of my (Get there, lay the coil and pull out a silver coin stunts). I myself snagged some more coins.........with no way to take a photo of them because my camera finally succumbed to all the dirt, dust and other crap I put it through. Maybe later on in the day I can get someone here at work to scan them for me. I will put out a video of 2/9 as soon as I can prepare it. Photos attached.
In response to depth questions, I'll post depths I can remember........
Deepest coin=A merc that came out of 7"
Shallowest coin=The 1910 dime at 2 1/2'
The Barber=5 to 5 1/2"
The really shallowest coin=The surface silver
Average depth in my opinion for silver at this place 4-5"
2/9/08 Uncleaned
2/9/08 Cleaned
2/9/08 Barber close-up-Really crummy shape
Scan of 2/10/08 day after hunt. In bad shape Buffalo nickel found along with 6 silver coins.
With a forecast for rain, I decided to go out anyways. I hate sitting at home kicking myself in the butt because I decided to listen to the weatherman, yet the weather turned out good. I prepared regardless with a pastic bottle for the back of my machine and some plastic bags to wrap around the housing. It was a good move because it would drizzle on and off. In any event, the day was perfectly detectable, and it turned out to be a whole lot better than expected. Things started out really slow, with over an hour in and nothing good turning up. Finally, a mercury dime comes up followed by a couple others including a 1910 Barber dime. At one point, I managed to find a surface silver Rosie (Four coins caught on film) that was laying right under the leaves. This could've been a detectorist's drop, only the dime knows. Up to seven coins, I get what appears to be a good dime signal. I dig through the rockiest plug and out comes what I at first thought was a token of some sort. It wasn't shiny and pretty beat up, typical of alot of the aluminum and other tokens I've found. It took a while before I realized that what I had was in fact a Barber Quarter. First Barber Quarter, first connection into 1800's silver and best total silver day. (2/9/2008). There is a part two to this story because the next day it was Tom's turn. To give him the opportunity to post, all I will say is that as soon as he was unleashed...........he pulled one of my (Get there, lay the coil and pull out a silver coin stunts). I myself snagged some more coins.........with no way to take a photo of them because my camera finally succumbed to all the dirt, dust and other crap I put it through. Maybe later on in the day I can get someone here at work to scan them for me. I will put out a video of 2/9 as soon as I can prepare it. Photos attached.
In response to depth questions, I'll post depths I can remember........
Deepest coin=A merc that came out of 7"
Shallowest coin=The 1910 dime at 2 1/2'
The Barber=5 to 5 1/2"
The really shallowest coin=The surface silver
Average depth in my opinion for silver at this place 4-5"
2/9/08 Uncleaned
2/9/08 Cleaned
2/9/08 Barber close-up-Really crummy shape
Scan of 2/10/08 day after hunt. In bad shape Buffalo nickel found along with 6 silver coins.
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still waiting on my first 1800s coin
