Great first detecting hunt for the year...

I recieved permission to detect an 1840s farm house and had some good success today..
Here is the entire hual before a cleaning...
The other picture is before I cleaned the good finds off.
Two Barber quarters in one hunt is not to common. One is hard enough to find. Mater of fact I didn't find my first Barber Quarter til I had been detecting 5 years. I have now been at it for 10 years and have found a handful. Two today was fun. 1894 S and a real nice 1908 O with full Liberty in the head band.
Also found the 1900 barber dime and a nice 1890 Indian head. Fun time out. Jim

 

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Nice !! Snow must have melted then huh? Great to hear, but my plans to visit MI have been put on hold due to work.

 

Completely jealous!

 

I've been wondering where I dropped my pocket change. I didn't notice the friggin hole in my pocket until it was too late. :whistle: I guess it was better that you found it cause I can give you half as a finder's fee. :mouth:

Great finds!

Ribbit

Ps: What's that thingy in the back of the pile?

 

Nice finds. Im gonna go dust off my metal detector.

 

Very cool!

 

Jim -
Where exactly do you search when treasure hunting? What I mean is when you find an old farm house where do you start? I have been wanting to buy a metal detector and am trying to find out simple info such as this. Thanks.

 

Great finds!! How deep were the coins buried?

 

The trick is research.

Find out where people congregated years ago and go there. Old swimming holes that may be filled in right now, old bandstands that may be overgrown with bushes, etc.

Also, hunt in places where not many others would hunt, like on hills. Not many people like to hunt on an angle, and a hill is a primes spot. The bottom of steap hills are especially good... chances are there's been more then one spill there over the years!

I can't wait to get out myself... I spent the winter in the city archives and now I have a list of places to checkout.

 

That is awesome!!! :thumb:

 

Good deal ~ congrats!!

 

At old home sites I always detect the front yard and side yards. I don't detect the back yards. I know there are some finds back there but I never have much luck in back yards. Lot of trash in back yards, back in the day people used to use their back yard as the trash pit.

Front yards have produced great for me. Can almost always find at least one old coin at the old home sites. Grid em off and try and cover every inch. Jim

 

The Quarters were around 6 inches down. The dime and Indian were a little shallower around 4-5 inches.

 

what do u use to clean them off?

 

Great finds Jim! I have been trying to get out to check out the site where an old Country Store used to stand! It belonged and was run by the Grandparents and I think Great-Grandparents of my Nephew's wife. The Store was open from around 1920 into the 50's and everyone says that there were fairly large cracks between the flooring boards and lots of change fell through the cracks over the years and was never retrieved. The property was purchased by the State to build a new highway and the old Country Store was demolished and removed last year.


Frank

 

Great finds, Jim! What are the non-coin items you have in the picture?

 

Those are awesome finds, and I am very jealous also. You had much better luck tham my son and I had today. We were searching for an old ghost town this morning. I brought along a plat map from 1910 but forgot my current map and satellite images I printed off. I knew we were close but didn't know how close. I compared the old plat map to a current one when we got home. It ended up we were about 100 yard north of the site.:hammer:
I plan on returnig though. This time with all my info.
Anyway, congrats on your finds.

 

Great finds! I can't wait for the snow to melt and the ground to unfreeze up here. (Global warming my butt!)

 

I hear ya, brother.

I'm seriously considering that flamethrower attachment for my detector.

 

That 1908 quarter is very nice. What a great find. Congrats