Our Best Day in maybe 10 years 🫣😃

[TORRERO]

We went out not expecting much like always… starting the day 3 blocks from my house, an area that probably dates from the 20-30 at the most.. we started hunting a couple of cleared lots where they are building houses… Started off normally enough, a few modern coins, and a wheat penny…. As I’m walking around my partner calls out… hey what’s this ? It’s junk right? And he handed me this cruddy disc… he said he almost threw it at me jokingly because he thought it was junk…. He thought it was a punch out from a utility box… Turns out it was a LARGE CENT, you can’t see a date, but it’s pre 1856 type. No other old coins or relics were found so we don’t know why it was there…
Later we hit an old church that I had hunted years ago and I knew there wouldn’t be much… in 45 minutes only two coins. He got a penny and a Buffalo 🦬 nickel… I got nothing….. then We moved on trying a few empty lots, I got a few wheats, and pennies.. nothing…. Trying a different lot, my partner popped a 1937 Bank Token (no picture) and I got some dimes and quarters but nothing old. Then we decided to try a house we had seen that was boarded up… clearly old and a big yard, boardering on a main road.
This turned out to be the better bonanza…
Within minutes we had popped several wheat pennies and it felt like it was going to be good. As we are walking around an older guy and his wife drove through the yard on a golf cart… laughing and talking to us… saying that they had yard sales here and we would sure find money and nobody cared if we walked around there.. seemed like a nice guy and my partner said he was sure the guy was smoking pot 😂 as he was talking to my partner I kept walking around… and popped a buffalo nickel just feet away from them talking… finally they left and we continued hunting… 15 minutes later my friend got a high signal that I checked… I thought maybe a quarter…. But what he turned up was a 1944 Mercury Dime… 😳 So we kept hunting… and a few minutes later I got a token and a buffalo 🦬 nickel and we both hit double wheat penny holes…
Then I got a really nasty signal that was jumping around and cracking.. like iron … but the machine just wasn’t sure (my DEUS II) so I started digging to see what was causing the signal and… suddenly I see a small round silver… turns out it was a 1939 Mercury Dime … this place is producing a lot of good stuff… We kept hunting but it was getting on towards 5 pm and I knew I had to get back home… my partner left to change batteries 🪫 in his pinpointer, and he was at my car.. on the other side of the big yard…. Then I got a Nickel signal deep… I’m thinking not again? But it was in fact a third buffalo 🦬.. then I swung my machine near that target and got a target reading high like maybe a silver dime… although many times these turn out to be clad dimes or quarters…
But as I dug the plug and tracked with the pinpointer, suddenly I could see a big silver disc…. And I almost shit a brick…
I picked it up and walked to my car to show my partner… before I even cleaned the dirt off… but I could see the design was clearly older… 🫣😳 after taking some pictures I washed it off in a puddle of water and staring back at us was a 1905 Barber Quarter… beautiful condition…. I was beside myself…
So besides the regular pocket change we got for the day…
1. Large Cent
2. 4 buffalo 🦬 nickels
3. 2 Mercury Dimes
4. 1 Barber Quarter
5. 2 old Tokens
6. An early foreign coin
7. Maybe 10-12 wheat pennies
8. A silver faced pendant of a cherab?
(Did not know what this was until I got home and cleaned it with a toothbrush)

I added a picture of the Barber Quarter… OH MY GOD !! she’s beautiful 😍

UPDATE: That Barber Quarter is an S mint mark … making it extremely rare for the East Coast… yippee 🥳

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Wow ... you hit it out of the park - congrats !

 

[robertk]

Now that’s a good day! Congrats!

 

[TORRERO]

Now that’s a good day! Congrats!

Thanks, this is actually pretty funny because we go out almost every weekend and if this is the best in 10 years… you just know we playground hunters not Civil War hunters 😂🤣 But like my partner said… even a blind squirrel 🐿️ gets a nut 🥜 sometimes 🤷🏼‍♂️

 

[Terry Soloman]

TORRERO, WoW! Congratulations!! ​

 

[TORRERO]

We went out not expecting much like always… starting the day 3 blocks from my house, an area that probably dates from the 20-30 at the most.. we started hunting a couple of cleared lots where they are building houses… Started off normally enough, a few modern coins, and a wheat penny…. As I’m walking around my partner calls out… hey what’s this ? It’s junk right? And he handed me this cruddy disc… he said he almost threw it at me jokingly because he thought it was junk…. He thought it was a punch out from a utility box… Turns out it was a LARGE CENT, you can’t see a date, but it’s pre 1856 type. No other old coins or relics were found so we don’t know why it was there…
Later we hit an old church that I had hunted years ago and I knew there wouldn’t be much… in 45 minutes only two coins. He got a penny and a Buffalo 🦬 nickel… I got nothing….. then We moved on trying a few empty lots, I got a few wheats, and pennies.. nothing…. Trying a different lot, my partner popped a 1937 Bank Token (no picture) and I got some dimes and quarters but nothing old. Then we decided to try a house we had seen that was boarded up… clearly old and a big yard, boardering on a main road.
This turned out to be the better bonanza…
Within minutes we had popped several wheat pennies and it felt like it was going to be good. As we are walking around an older guy and his wife drove through the yard on a golf cart… laughing and talking to us… saying that they had yard sales here and we would sure find money and nobody cared if we walked around there.. seemed like a nice guy and my partner said he was sure the guy was smoking pot 😂 as he was talking to my partner I kept walking around… and popped a buffalo nickel just feet away from them talking… finally they left and we continued hunting… 15 minutes later my friend got a high signal that I checked… I thought maybe a quarter…. But what he turned up was a 1944 Mercury Dime… 😳 So we kept hunting… and a few minutes later I got a token and a buffalo 🦬 nickel and we both hit double wheat penny holes…
Then I got a really nasty signal that was jumping around and cracking.. like iron … but the machine just wasn’t sure (my DEUS II) so I started digging to see what was causing the signal and… suddenly I see a small round silver… turns out it was a 1939 Mercury Dime … this place is producing a lot of good stuff… We kept hunting but it was getting on towards 5 pm and I knew I had to get back home… my partner left to change batteries 🪫 in his pinpointer, and he was at my car.. on the other side of the big yard…. Then I got a Nickel signal deep… I’m thinking not again? But it was in fact a third buffalo 🦬.. then I swung my machine near that target and got a target reading high like maybe a silver dime… although many times these turn out to be clad dimes or quarters…
But as I dug the plug and tracked with the pinpointer, suddenly I could see a big silver disc…. And I almost shit a brick…
I picked it up and walked to my car to show my partner… before I even cleaned the dirt off… but I could see the design was clearly older… 🫣😳 after taking some pictures I washed it off in a puddle of water and staring back at us was a 1905 Barber Quarter… beautiful condition…. I was beside myself…
So besides the regular pocket change we got for the day…
1. Large Cent
2. 4 buffalo 🦬 nickels
3. 2 Mercury Dimes
4. 1 Barber Quarter
5. 2 old Tokens
6. An early foreign coin
7. Maybe 10-12 wheat pennies
8. A silver faced pendant of a cherab?
(Did not know what this was until I got home and cleaned it with a toothbrush)

I added a picture of the Barber Quarter… OH MY GOD !! she’s beautiful 😍

UPDATE: That Barber Quarter is an S mint mark … making it extremely rare for the East Coast… yippee 🥳

Hahaha 😂 I’m VERY sore from digging yesterday and I’m in trouble with the wife because my tennis shoes are muddy 🤣🤷🏼‍♂️

 

[TORRERO]

TORRERO, WoW! Congratulations!! ​

Thank you 🙏

 

[TORRERO]

I can’t be sure but two of the buffalos 🦬 might have dates 1917 and 1927 I can see the 1927 more or less the other I can barely see but seems like 17 .. third is toast 🤷🏼‍♂️

 

[Silvermonkey]

We went out not expecting much like always… starting the day 3 blocks from my house, an area that probably dates from the 20-30 at the most.. we started hunting a couple of cleared lots where they are building houses… Started off normally enough, a few modern coins, and a wheat penny…. As I’m walking around my partner calls out… hey what’s this ? It’s junk right? And he handed me this cruddy disc… he said he almost threw it at me jokingly because he thought it was junk…. He thought it was a punch out from a utility box… Turns out it was a LARGE CENT, you can’t see a date, but it’s pre 1856 type. No other old coins or relics were found so we don’t know why it was there…
Later we hit an old church that I had hunted years ago and I knew there wouldn’t be much… in 45 minutes only two coins. He got a penny and a Buffalo 🦬 nickel… I got nothing….. then We moved on trying a few empty lots, I got a few wheats, and pennies.. nothing…. Trying a different lot, my partner popped a 1937 Bank Token (no picture) and I got some dimes and quarters but nothing old. Then we decided to try a house we had seen that was boarded up… clearly old and a big yard, boardering on a main road.
This turned out to be the better bonanza…
Within minutes we had popped several wheat pennies and it felt like it was going to be good. As we are walking around an older guy and his wife drove through the yard on a golf cart… laughing and talking to us… saying that they had yard sales here and we would sure find money and nobody cared if we walked around there.. seemed like a nice guy and my partner said he was sure the guy was smoking pot 😂 as he was talking to my partner I kept walking around… and popped a buffalo nickel just feet away from them talking… finally they left and we continued hunting… 15 minutes later my friend got a high signal that I checked… I thought maybe a quarter…. But what he turned up was a 1944 Mercury Dime… 😳 So we kept hunting… and a few minutes later I got a token and a buffalo 🦬 nickel and we both hit double wheat penny holes…
Then I got a really nasty signal that was jumping around and cracking.. like iron … but the machine just wasn’t sure (my DEUS II) so I started digging to see what was causing the signal and… suddenly I see a small round silver… turns out it was a 1939 Mercury Dime … this place is producing a lot of good stuff… We kept hunting but it was getting on towards 5 pm and I knew I had to get back home… my partner left to change batteries 🪫 in his pinpointer, and he was at my car.. on the other side of the big yard…. Then I got a Nickel signal deep… I’m thinking not again? But it was in fact a third buffalo 🦬.. then I swung my machine near that target and got a target reading high like maybe a silver dime… although many times these turn out to be clad dimes or quarters…
But as I dug the plug and tracked with the pinpointer, suddenly I could see a big silver disc…. And I almost shit a brick…
I picked it up and walked to my car to show my partner… before I even cleaned the dirt off… but I could see the design was clearly older… 🫣😳 after taking some pictures I washed it off in a puddle of water and staring back at us was a 1905 Barber Quarter… beautiful condition…. I was beside myself…
So besides the regular pocket change we got for the day…
1. Large Cent
2. 4 buffalo 🦬 nickels
3. 2 Mercury Dimes
4. 1 Barber Quarter
5. 2 old Tokens
6. An early foreign coin
7. Maybe 10-12 wheat pennies
8. A silver faced pendant of a cherab?
(Did not know what this was until I got home and cleaned it with a toothbrush)

I added a picture of the Barber Quarter… OH MY GOD !! she’s beautiful 😍

UPDATE: That Barber Quarter is an S mint mark … making it extremely rare for the East Coast… yippee 🥳

That's what I call a Bonanza! Congrats on a great collection of finds!

 

[Nathan W]

Awesome haul , I actually got that James Monroe token too

 

[iAmMike]

A beautiful day out! I'm happy you had such great luck. Hopefully you'll be able to go back before they finish construction.

 

[Gare]

Great finds

 

[villagenut]

You guys did great...I would go pound that yard some more.

 

[billb]

Spectacular recoveries ..
Congratulations on your success

 

[Chilli]

The pendant face one is really cool 😎

 

[oldmxrat]

Wow, fantastic hunt, congrats!

 

[TORRERO]

Awesome haul , I actually got that James Monroe token too

It took a Google photo search to ID it

 

[TORRERO]

You guys did great...I would go pound that yard some more.

Hahaha 😂 we already have plans

 

[TORRERO]

The pendant face one is really cool 😎

According to google these are actually pretty rare

 

[TORRERO]

A beautiful day out! I'm happy you had such great luck. Hopefully you'll be able to go back before they finish construction.

Actually the Large cent came from the construction site the other stuff came from a church and various vacant lots and an old house site.. that construction site will certainly be getting bigger and when it does I will be there walking around