Persistence pays off with an awesome barber dime

[SMS88]

Well, in my last post, http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,115304.0.html, I managed to find an 02 indian after a few hours searching and returned later that night for 1 zinc cent. Today, after only half an hour at the site, i got a repeatable 74-76 signal at 4.5 in. I had to resweep a couple of times because it sounded surreal at the moment. Considering I've never found a wheat at the site, it was most likely a silver dime since I've found older coins shallower. I cut a greatly oversized plug and carefully removed the rest of the dirt and uncovered a beautiful 1906 s barber dime. A careful rinse off revealed only slight wear from the trip across the states. The wear is on the obverse leaves and reverse corn grains. LIBERTY is bold and the headband is distinct and seperate. The pictures don't do it justice.
This site has been so good to me and I'm ready to move on to a new site on or off campus for the weekends. I only have class on wednesday and friday for three weeks. I'm very excited to start second year classes and am happy to be back in the hudson valley. I'm going to start hunting apartments for rent and maybe that will lead me to another spot. I'm still a little unfamiliar with the area but I'm trying to find more history about good spots. If anyone wants to hunt the CIA woods with me, just give me a message. There's a few cellar holes which i havent touched and there's a bottle dump around there too. History says that FDR's father owned some land that I'm searching on too.

 

[Kas]

Hey that's a pretty sharp looking barber. Congrats.
Ken

 

[cwdigger]

sweeeeeeeeeeeet nice finds on the coins the barber looks great

HH

 

[fd3615]

wtg on the barber

 

[texan connection]

That is a dawesome arber Bime!!

 

[Don In South Jersey]

Real nice, thats a fine looking specimen..

 

[Burdie]

Not to many barbers are that good of condition. I would keep hitting that place over an over. Congrats on your finds.
Burdie

 

[oddcoins]

That's a very nice looking Barber dime! I've found only about ten Barber dimes in the last 14 years ~ only one is in this good of shape ~ and of course I scratched the crap out of it when I dug it! OUCH!!!! Oh well, it wasn't a key date or anything ~ it was a 1916-S.

 

[SgtSki in MI]

Very Nice Barber!!!

WTG!!! (The IH is a nice addition too)

 

[SMS88]

And to recap, here's some previous finds from june at this site. I cleaned it out good! The 1896 is an O which makes it a semi key. I've nicknamed this site the generation gap site because of the absence of anything from 1912-1964, which is about the time the college used to be a monastery. Priests didn't cary much money back then. The memorials are from the kids who discovered a nice spot to have lots of beer without getting caught.

 

[LI Tom]

Excellent finds!That site has been very good to you.

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Awesome hunt, WTG !!

Keep @ it and HH!!

 

[Joe G]

That Barber looks like it was lost in 1906 Awesome find!

Well, in my last post, http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,115304.0.html, I managed to find an 02 indian after a few hours searching

and returned later that night for 1 zinc cent. Today, after only half an hour at the site, i got a repeatable 74-76 signal at 4.5 in. I had to resweep a couple of times because it sounded surreal at the moment. Considering I've never found a wheat at the site, it was most likely a silver dime since I've found older coins shallower. I cut a greatly oversized plug and carefully removed the rest of the dirt and uncovered a beautiful 1906 s barber dime. A careful rinse off revealed only slight wear from the trip across the states. The wear is on the obverse leaves and reverse corn grains. LIBERTY is bold and the headband is distinct and seperate. The pictures don't do it justice.


This site has been so good to me and I'm ready to move on to a new site on or off campus for the weekends. I only have class on wednesday and friday for three weeks. I'm very excited to start second year classes and am happy to be back in the hudson valley. I'm going to start hunting apartments for rent and maybe that will lead me to another spot. I'm still a little unfamiliar with the area but I'm trying to find more history about good spots. If anyone wants to hunt the CIA woods with me, just give me a message. There's a few cellar holes which i havent touched and there's a bottle dump around there too. History says that FDR's father owned some land that I'm searching on too.