Metal Detecting - My First Barber Quarter! 1910 D

Hello everyone,
Today I want to share a 8 hour Metal Detecting hunt I did with 2 other friends at Hunter Island NYC - 3/27/2021

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I finally found my first ever Barber Quarter - 1910
A coin off my Bucket List!





All the silver and coins shown are all my finds..
Barber Quarter - 1910 Denver Mint
Standing Liberty Quarter - 1924
4 Mercury Dime
1 Silver Roosevelt (Rosie)
1 Silver War Nickel 1942 P
8 Wheat Cents


I now have a total of 30 Silver Coins for 2021

1 V-Nickel corroded
2 Buffalo Nickels


The rest..

 

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@potty dollar 1878
My second ever Epic Metal Detecting Hunt!


(Lego and images created by potty dollar 1878)

 

Attention: The following are not my coins

One of the other guys detected an amazing 6 Silver Coin spill in one hole..
Trifecta.. 3 Different Dimes!
Barber, Mercury and Roosevelt

 

That 1924 SLQ is a really nice specimen, what a fun bunch of finds, thanks for sharing! How about a highlights reel, I don't know if I can watch 8 hours. I mean maybe if Ken Burns directed and Morgan Freeman did the narration.

 

Nice Finds !! Congrat's on the Silver ! Can't wait to get out myself .

 

Nice! Really like those quarters.

 

Wow, very nice! I think earlier this week, you said you’re hoping to find your first Barber quarter, right?

I bought a Garrett Ace 300 and a pinpointer last summer but I haven’t used it much since. I metal detected some old parks around me but just a bunch of beer tabs and tinfoil lol. I think I should play around with the settings more.

 

Once again you strike silver. That has to make you smile.

 

Yep, lots of meat still on that 1924 SLQ! I've always wanted to go detecting -- maybe someday...

 

What a great day hunting. Congrats @paddyman98

Question for you. The condition of the coins in the pix are not what they look like when you remove them from the dirt. Is the only thing you do to them an H2O bath? I'm very hesitant to think you'd use a toothbrush or any harsh abrasives. Just curious about the work it takes to restore them to the shiney.

HH

 

You did it again paddy man, I'm jealous. Congratulations!

 

Honestly.. I check for any key dates or special varieties. They usually are normal coins with nothing special besides the silver melt value.. So a one time cleaning with Baking Soda shines them up quickly.
I know people my cringe with that statement but they are my finds and I do like them shiny

 

Does the first rule of collecting (i.e., never clean a coin) not hold when you're dealing with coins found with a metal detector? Fortunately, they didn't cost anything, because they've definitely been ruin numismatically by their harsh cleaning. Just my opinion, of course, and others may like what you've done to them.

 

So you're saying if you did find a key date you'd handle it differently? Like, no baking soda for you!

 

The only coin I remember cleaning with baking soda was a beautiful XF 1917-S obverse half dollar. Washed $500 of value right off it!

 

Hi Group,
During my MD-Days I once was detecting the stomping grounds of my elementary school, built in 1920. Basically I was expecting nothing but modern change as I knew that the grounds had extensive fills due to recent rebuilding. My detecting had drawn a small group of neighborhood kids so I was giving them a detector demonstration (Tersoro Golden Sabre). Upon receiving a deep signal, barely registering, I let each of the 3 boys hear the sound through the earphone, saying it was probably an aluminum can BUT after digging down in the dark clay 7" I uncovered the most incredibly white 1909 Barber Half, in roughly the same condition as Paddy's quarter. The kids rode off on their bikes all 3 swearing to ask their parents for metal detectors next Christmas...True Story!
J.T.

 

Great find. Did you take a nap during that 8 hour hunt? I know I couldn't last that long and it's one of the reasons I don't fish. LOL

 

Congrats on finding and wiping a coin off of your bucket list. A beauty of a day in this area.