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]

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

 

[sniffer]

way to go on the barber, as far as the rest of your list, the year ain't over yet.
BB still has time to get arrested LOL

 

[crazyjarhead]

Congrats on your first Barber dime. I hope to recover one someday