Mercury Dime with head facing wrong way???

[mastereagle22]

Our weekly hunt happened last night and Baldingboy had secured a new place to hunt for both of us! I didn't understand why BB had to take flowers to the MALE home owner and I didn't ask.... (no flowers were injured during this detecting adventure)

So BB decided to take me to the place he had already hunted and found some great stuff and I was excited. There isn't one house on the WHOLE block I wouldn't love to detect.

Started out right off the bat digging several wheat pennies. Then some lead. One piece has what looks like to me, eyes that someone may have carved? I don't know looks like a platapus or maybe a crocodile?

Found some old iron square nails and lots of aluminum. Those aluminum gutter spikes were ringing in like Silver on the beast lastnight. Then I got into an area and pulled 4 Tilt tokens in the span of about 3 minutes! Tilt is a local arcade here at our mall.

I walked about 15 feet further and got a really strong Wheat Penny-high copper tone at about 10 inches. I dug down almost 11 inches and out popped what I thought was the bottom of a compact. Turns out that it was the top to a can of McGill fasteners and its from the 1800s!!!!!!!! I didn't know this until after I got home though.

So I filled the hole back in and walked about two feet to my left and got a dead on silver signal at 6 inches. I had just found the four tokens so I thought maybe I had another one. Made my plug and flipped it out and laying right in the side of the plug is a small glint of silver. The ground was moist and the coin had a good layer of mud on it but I could make out part of the face. I looked at it and thought I had a Mercury, which would be great since I haven't found one in a while when I noticed that this Merc's face was looking right and not left. It took my cold addled brain about 30 seconds to process that I wasn't looking at any Merc. I then thought it was Canadian until I flipped it over and the ONE DIME hit me in the head like a brick. I was totally dumbfounded. A BARBER DIME!!!!!!

BB wanted me to brush it off and see what the date was but I refused and resisted the urge and put it away in my special holder for good items. Later we washed it off and found out it was a 1910 and pretty worn on the bottom edge, but still my FIRST Barber and I was so pumped.

I detected for another two hours but it was all a blur to me. I found a little cheap cross, an angel charm and a Bell off a cat's collar.

Total for the night was 6 wheats, 17, 18, 19, 30, 46 and 54, The little cross and angel pin, the McGill top the little piece of lead which I think is funny even if it isn't anything at all and the Barber!!!!

I wanted to find one this year and I made that goal. The last goal I have to make this year and I don't think it will happen is an Indian Head penny. It is getting cold here quick and before long the ground will be frozen. I am planning on getting up early Thursday and hitting a spot for two hours but the wife says my plans don't match up with hers so I will have to play that one by ear.

Sorry about the fuzzy pictures but my little guy dropped the camera and now the macro is having trouble focusing, it may be time for Momma to get a new digital camera....

Thanks for reading.....

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

Congrats on your finds!

I fixed your Merc, so the head is facing in the right direction.

 

[X-Terra70_TreasureHunter]

Larry thats a Barber Dime not a Mercury Dime in the photo
& yes it is faceing the correct way.



Dave

 

[mastereagle22]

Larry thats a Barber Dime not a Mercury Dime in the photo.




Dave

Ya think? I know it is I was just trying to find a different way to label the post other than "First Barber dime found"

Thanks!!! No offense intended.

Neil Thanks I feel SOOOOOO much better now!

 

[allen]

congrats on those good looking finds...

 

[John Deere Digger]

Congrats on your first barber, she's a nice one. Now I see you want to find an indian too, don't get greedy Ha Ha. Hope you find one of those soon too. HH
JDD

 

[mastereagle22]

It's not really about greed, they are just goals I set. These are the goals I met this year.

1. Not Kill BB while hunting
2. Not get killed by BB while hunting
3. Not get arrested hunting with BB this year
4. First Buffalo
5. First Barber Coin
6. First Silver Half (found two)
7. First solid gold ring (found NONE)
8. Find Indian Head this year (found NONE)
9. First 3-ring bullet (found none)
10.Buy new detector. (Still hunting with the EX II) Hope to fix that in January or Feb.

 

[John Deere Digger]

Thats a great list. The first three are classic for you and BB. Hope you finish off a few more before the end of the year. Don't get in too much trouble going out in the morning. My wife usually has good radar if I go out detecting. Happy Hunting.
JDD

 

[Nana40]

WooooHooo!!! Way to go ME! Congrats on that first Barber! Congrats on all those finds!

Have a great Thanksgiving!

Nana

 

[rebelLT]

ME. Great barber my friend! Congrats. You are buying a new detector? Will I be the last human on earth using the Explorer II .

 

[Jeffro]

It's not really about greed, they are just goals I set. These are the goals I met this year.

1. Not Kill BB while hunting
2. Not get killed by BB while hunting
3. Not get arrested hunting with BB this year
4. First Buffalo
5. First Barber Coin
6. First Silver Half (found two)
7. First solid gold ring (found NONE)
8. Find Indian Head this year (found NONE)
9. First 3-ring bullet (found none)
10.Buy new detector. (Still hunting with the EX II) Hope to fix that in January or Feb.

Just out of curiosity, what is the signifigance of a three ring bullet? I found one last year and paid no mind to it, as I'm not from a civil war state. I have no clue....

 

[mistergee]

3-ringers are civil war...check out the civil war artifacts in the forum

 

[Roger Mn.]

Congratulations on the Barber dime and your other finds.

 

[mastereagle22]

Almost any three-ring bullet you find is Civil War related, I said ALMOST guys!

Seriously it doesn't matter if a battle occured near you or not. After the war people who fought in the war moved around and it is not uncommon to find Civil War relics in places you would least expect them. Also during that time period buttons were kind of hard to come by so whenever a piece of clothing wore out they would remove the buttons, clips etc and reuse them. That is why you may find Civil War related buttons in weird places too.

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

The backwards Merc are extremely rare to find, only a few minted. Congrates on the Barber!

 

[Mental Granny]

Larry another great story and fantastic hunt, congrats on the dime ...


As for your goals ... well if you get the new detector in early year that will be great most of the others you still have time we can still hope for some more warm enough days for you guys to get out and have some fun!


Now as for the first 3 ..... like I said there is still going to be some days to get out before the year is over ---

 

[49er]

Great digs at old house.

 

[Robin]

Yeah nice finds ,and a great Barber dime too !

Robin

 

[winslow]

That's a great looking Barber. I'm sure it gave you an adrenaline rush.

 

[lonewolfe]

Cool finds

HH

LW

 

[treasurefiend]

Congrats on your first Barber and great finds!!!

Im still lookin for my first Barber dime...