Todays GREAT hunt, my oldest coin found!!!

[Dimeman]

I went this morning to a local park, and starting my way toward the section that I last found some silver.
Noticing it has been hunted since I was last there, I moved a bit further towards the actual spot, where I was before.
Since I was hunting for coins, I had the discrimination turned up, more than usual.I wasn't getting any good signals so I went a bit further up a small old trail.
After getting about 3 shallow trash signals,which were under the surface squashed rusted cans, I got a solid dime reading on my White's M6.
Digging a reading at 5 inches, out came a nice 1903 O, Barber dime.


I searched around awhile and didn't get any more signals, so I moved a bit along the trail,seeing a nice good sized tree with some big roots that were above the ground.
Searching around the tree I got a very loud signal....overload..I thought i was going to find another old rusted can.

I raised up my coil from the ground..checking again, and got a solid signal.

Half dollar !! As I moved the leaves from around the tree, my target was right there......on top of the ground.

Picking it up,I had to look close!!!!
A 1875 Seated Liberty Half !!!!! Did I see this date right??
I was shaking.....I had to look at it again...

It WAS an 1875 half.........and the oldest coin I have found detecting!!!!

I decide to come back another day, since my heart was pumping so fast, I probably couldn't heard any more sounds on my headphones........


Looks like, this part of the park still has some good stuff left in it.

 

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[sonny0065]

Great find. Keep up the good work. HH Sonny

 

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[rebelLT]

WOW! Seated, GREAT! Silver half, BREATHTAKING. Seated Half, CARDIAC! I never found a seated half!!! FIND OF A LIFETIME as far as Im concerned!! Congrats.

 

[coinman66]

Very Very nice Dimeman! I bet that got you goin!

 

[cheese]

Well, yesterday I replied to this saying I haven't found a half yet. Then, today I went out and found one! Funny how that works, huh?

 

[Dimeman]

Well, yesterday I replied to this saying I haven't found a half yet. Then, today I went out and found one! Funny how that works, huh?

Good find!! I saw your post. Nice Barber !!!!

 

[DANGLANGLEY]

Sorry, but I had to add another comment to this nice post. Back in the late 70's my father and I went back to a grammer school for the umpteenth time to look. I was a whole lot less excited than he was to go back there because I thought it was looked out. I was still a teenager and wanted to go for a place we had never hunted. He said you can't look a place out and I thought it was a waste of time. I got bored after a while and remembered a place in front of the school where there was a lot of trash so I went there and set my discriminator about half way up and I got a loud signal that looked like it must have been as big as a dinner plate. I dug it anyway and found a very nice 1944 silver half about three inches deep. I learned a lot from my dad that day and sometimes I still discriminate very high with my old Garrett Deepseeker just to hunt places like that.

 

[Dimeman]

Sorry, but I had to add another comment to this nice post. Back in the late 70's my father and I went back to a grammer school for the umpteenth time to look. I was a whole lot less excited than he was to go back there because I thought it was looked out. I was still a teenager and wanted to go for a place we had never hunted. He said you can't look a place out and I thought it was a waste of time. I got bored after a while and remembered a place in front of the school where there was a lot of trash so I went there and set my discriminator about half way up and I got a loud signal that looked like it must have been as big as a dinner plate. I dug it anyway and found a very nice 1944 silver half about three inches deep. I learned a lot from my dad that day and sometimes I still discriminate very high with my old Garrett Deepseeker just to hunt places like that.

I also do that from time to time, set the disc setting up a bit higher...It does help in trashy places, sometimes you lose getting small rings and nickels, but dimes, quarters and half will still be picked up. Silver is always nice to dig up, even if you might miss the small gold.....you go back at a later time.
No place is hunted out, others just get tired of digging the trash out.