Metal Detecting - My First Barber Quarter! 1910 D

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  1. kkm

    kkm Active Member

    Congrats! The best I have found is a '39 Mercury dime using a 1970/80s RadioShack detector in my yard. Right now, I am working on amassing a "slush fund" for a proper metal detecting setup. :greedy: I might get to metal detect my grandparents' circa 1900 farm this summer! :)
     
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  3. Numiser

    Numiser Well-Known Member

    I'm surprised!

    I'd thought with all the time you have spent searching near NYC you would have found a Barber quarter by now.

    Now I'm curious, on a scale from 1- 10, how rare is it for your to find Barber coins near the big city?
     
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  4. potty dollar 1878

    potty dollar 1878 Well-Known Member

    10 anything besides bottle caps e.t.c junk is rare especially silver coins.
     
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  5. J.T. Parker

    J.T. Parker Well-Known Member

    Finding silver with a metal detector, just about anyplace, is indeed a labor of love.
    (Of the Hunt)
    Although I do recall one of our MD club members happening upon a schoolyard that just had 3" scraped off for resurfacing. He had a 2# bag of early and mid-20th century U.S. silver for club's show and tell that month. Claimed his back gave out while bending over picking up exposed silver coins!
    Right place, right time,
    J.T.
     
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  6. potty dollar 1878

    potty dollar 1878 Well-Known Member

    New paddyman 20210328_201021.jpg 20210328_201036.jpg 20210328_201049.jpg
     
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  7. Mr.Q

    Mr.Q Well-Known Member

    Next you can will make a bobble head out of him potty dollar... You do great work!
     
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  8. sel w

    sel w Active Member

    congrats paddyman nice find
     
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  9. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    You go, Bunny Foo-Foo! Keep ‘em beepin’!

    You had a Breakthrough! :woot:

    That was my personal term for when I found one of those “bucket list” types I hadn’t dug before.

    A Barber quarter plus a SLQ chaser! Very impressive!

    I never had a day with 8 silvers. Five in a day was the best I ever did. On two occasions, I think. On one of those days, all five came up in the same hole, from someone’s 1950s pocket spill. (It was a mix of Mercs and silver Roosies, plus one early but nonsilver Jefferson.)

    All told, in the Barber quarters, I found 3 total in the span of my detecting career: 1894-O, 1902-O, and 1916-D.

    You’re going to topple my high score for silvers, at the rate you’re going, and before very long, too! And I never had more than one or two days with that many older coins. But I would imagine NYC parks are a much denser target environment than small town GA parks. It took me a whole lot longer to get to where you are now.

    BTW, I love how you called the shot on that Barber quarter in the video, and then later it actually happened!

    Wish for a silver half next time, or hey - why not wish big - shoot for a gold quarter-eagle and see what happens! ;)
     
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  10. Gilbert

    Gilbert Part time collector Supporter

    Nice finds Paddy. You must spend a lot of time researching detecting locations?
     
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