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    Picked up a 102 year old lady

    Brought my Fisher F70 to a trash infested park built in the 1950's. There are bottle-caps, screw caps, old and new style pulltabs and other small metal trash items all over the park.
    I concentrated on the area between the parking lot and the back of the baseball field.
    I was gridding small sections, listening for every possible high toned coin target (solid tone scanned back-and-forth) overlapping my swings and going slow.

    The F70 going slow got in between many trash items (dug over 20 because they were in the hole on a high toned sound) and located 49 clad coins
    not real deep, 3-6 inches... but they had been missed because of all the trash in the park.

    Pulled an old lady from her grave and brought her back to life...

    She is quite pretty for being 102..........and if you are wondering........yes I took her home !!!!
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    Global Moderator aloldstuff's Avatar
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    Always great to see any Barber posted...... Coming from a park from the 50's that is a fantastic find.
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    Hey hey! Congrats on the Barber Quarter!

    One of my favorite coins, and they don't turn up too often. That's awesome!
    Lifetime totals:
    10 Large Cents, 415 Indian Heads, 2 Two Cent Pieces, 1 Capped Bust Half Dime, 1 Seated Half Dime, 10 Shield Nickels, 68 V Nickels, 124 Buffalo Nickels, 31 War Nickels, 16 Seated Dimes, 131 Barber Dimes, 405 Mercury Dimes, 249 Rosies, 4 Seated Quarters, 18 Barber Quarters, 20 Standing Liberty Quarters, 89 Silver Washingtons, 1 Seated Half, 3 Barber Halves, 16 Walking Liberty Halves

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    Elite Member milco's Avatar
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    Sweet barber quarter, gotta love those!
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    Oldest silver: 1853 Half-dime & 1876S Seated Quarter / Oldest coin: 1849 US Large Cent / 1854 Upper Canada One Penny Bank Token

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    Nice of you to rescue the old lady.
    Oldest find: 5,000 year old copper spearhead
    Oldest coin: 1699 William III halfpenny
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    She looks good for her age
    nice job

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    i see you have a fondness for older women

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    Great score on the nice old barber quarter there Dimeman


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    Great find Robbie!
    Oldest silver-- 1838o seated dime (no stars)
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