Give me an hour and I give you . . .

[Cal_Cobra]

There's a park that dates to the 1870's I've been hunting and have pulled many older coins from it. Interestingly I've only found one small 20' x 40' area that's productive (I think the rest of the park has been changed). Three trips ago there I thought it was done for silver, as it had been several trips since silver surfaced, but I still managed to find old wheaties and a few other interesting things, so I kept at it. Two trips ago the ground, which had always been moist on previous hunts, was bone dry. They say dry ground is optimal for hunting around iron as wet ground enhances the halo of large and small rusty iron, and I saw first hand what I was missing in wet ground as I dug several coins in the same hole as rusty nails. Unbelievably I pulled three mercs, two indian heads, and about ten early wheatbacks from the same spot in the course of an hour or so. I couldn't believe it.

Sunday I only had about an hour to hunt it, and my second target was a pristine 1912-S Barber dime! It looks like an uncirculated drop, it's crisp and has much more detail then I could capture, looks like an easy AU50. Bummer it wasn't a key date.

A few feet away from where I got the Barber I dug what I think may be my first love token?? When I first dug it I thought I had a normal trade token, but when I got it home and cleaned it up I saw that it was hand engraved. It's the exact same size as a nickel, which is exactly what I thought it was made of, but further cleaning reveals that it's actually copper. Any ideas on this one?

I was running 99 sensitivity, zero disc and only digging targets that read at 6" or deeper. It was a bit noisy, but according to Dankowski, that combination provides the best audio and the ultimate unmasking capabilities.

I'm amazed that I keep finding coins at this park, I cover the same small area over and over, but for some reason each trip gives up goodies that I couldn't detect and/or hear on previous trips. It's peculiar, really makes me ponder how much stuff is missed due to the multitude of ever changing variables we face.

Thanks for looking,
Brian

 

[shaun7]

Nice love token

I've only ever found the bent kind!

 

[prolab69]

My hunting partner and i are experiencing the same thing at our old park, you need to start hunting for nickles now, go for the deep ones, shallow is usually a pulltab. our silver is depleted from our park, but we still manage an old nickle here and there.

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Nice love token

I've only ever found the bent kind!

Thanks! I guess you have those coin seeking plows to deal with eh

My hunting partner and i are experiencing the same thing at our old park, you need to start hunting for nickles now, go for the deep ones, shallow is usually a pulltab. our silver is depleted from our park, but we still manage an old nickle here and there.

I've found some older nickels there, a few V's, buffalos and silver war nickels, but I haven't got a nickel signal there in a while.

I pretty much dig anything non-iron, even if it's iffy. Even digging iron has crossed my mind, thinking I may find a few masked keepers if I clear out all metal targets. Eventually I'll probably do that

 

[hogge]

That dime does appear to be AU! AWESOME and Congrats. Hogge

 

[mobile miner]

Beautiful barber,nice token.

 

[Texasgopher]

Awesome barber and token. Interesting detecting technique also. I'll have to try that.


TG

 

[DMN]

There is little to say about a coin found in that condition. Pretty is an understatement.
And the love token ain't too shabby either!

 

[jeffmrgan]

i have a park like this too, only a few good spots (fill dirt just about everywhere)....some days nothing...other days deep coins everywhere...........all in the same small area

 

[Trezurehunter]

Great lookin' dime. Nice job.

 

[Mr Tuff]

nice Barber MR TUFF

 

[ivan salis]

l c -- large cent --lol

 

[CMDiamonddawg]

Now those are some beautys many more CMDdawg

 

[Gunny71]

That is a sweet looking dime! Very nice find.
As for the token, weren't some nickles, like the V nickle mainly copper? Seem to remember the V nickles being 70 percent copper or some such.

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

Crisp dime, and that nickel is interesting. You don't see too many converted nickels as love tokens. Go back for another hour or two.
Carl

 

[september]

Nice finds!