Another one scratched off the bucket list! I finally got my first Barber Half Dollar today!
Yesterday I tried a new spot, a grassy area beside an old railroad depot that has been turned into a village hall. In this grassy area I found 1 Indian Head, 16 Wheat Cents, 3 Buffalo Nickels and 1 Mercury Dime. It was a pretty fun day.
Today I decided to head back to a park that I had hunted one time last year. When I was there last year the Lions Club was having a fish fry and most of the park was occupied with people. I detected a small corner of the park that was away from the people and found a few wheat cents and a couple of easy silver dimes.
Today was a beautiful sunny day in the upper 70s, and again there were several people in the park so my hunting area was limited. I decided to hunt a strip between the sidewalk and the street that was furthest away from the people in the park. An older gentleman driving by stopped and told me that an old two-story brick school house used to sit on the site. Good to know!
Today in that strip along one side of the park I found 1 Indian Head, 4 Wheat Cents, 3 Silver Rosies, 1 Silver Washington, and a 1903-S Barber Half Dollar! The strip I was hunting was almost like a shallow ditch. I guess no one had bothered to hunt in the ditch before! I will definitely have to go back to this park sometime when there are not so many people there.
Here are my finds for the weekend:
Here are the keepers:
My first Barber Half:
Mystery Coin. It's about the size of a large cent. I have no idea if it's Arabic or Hebrew or what?
Relics:
This lead WWI doughboy still has lots of the original paint:
That's all, folks!
Thanks for looking and happy hunting!
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great hunt Tony , 
on the Barber half |
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. Hey, love those silver coins, but theres just something about those old toys and tokens. Great hunt my man! 
its a nice one for your first for sure. 
