How often do you find a silver like this laying on top of the ground?!!

Trezurehunter · Oct 29, 2017

There seems to be quite a run of Barber Halves in the last week or two, so I thought I'd throw mine in the ring. I found it just this morning at a park about 10 miles from my home. I noticed a few weeks back, that they were doing a lot of dirt work in there. Putting in a new tot lot for the kids, adding new park benches, etc. I was out there about an hour digging clads, when I stumbled onto an area where I was walking into the sun. I noticed a glint up ahead, & was thinking large screw cap. When I got closer, I couldn't believe it was a Barber Half laying right on top of the dirt they were working. Also picked up a 44 Wheat on top of the ground. That was it for the morning, along with the 25 clad coins (which ironically, I had to dig ) ! A fellow club member of mine picked up a Merc, and Barber Quarter out there last week. Think I'll be headed back next weekend ! Good luck to all.

dts52 · Oct 30, 2017

Nice surprise and "good eye" as they say. It always pay to use the eyeballs as well as the MD.
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dts

trapperart · Oct 30, 2017

Congrats on the big silver

Sooper Dave · Oct 30, 2017

Wow that's awesome! Congrats on the surface Barber Half! Good luck on your return trip there gotta be a few more keepers there.

I lucked up on a Barber quarter laying on the surface. I was doing some work on a property line and saw a quarter laying on the ground and thought for sure it was a modern Washington. It was a big surprise to see it was a Barber. I figured out it was right next to a fence post that was installed a couple of years ago and brought it up to the surface when they dug the post.