After doing my afternoon exercise walk, I squeezed in an hour and a half of swinging. On my way home I stopped by a private residence that I always felt had potential, but up until today hadn't given up much. Well the silver gods shined down on my MXT today and gave me my first Barber dime,,, a 1906 no mint mark. Only 3 to 4 inches deep. This is also my new oldest coin. The property also gave up some junker bling.
Primary machine= Teknetics T2
2016 Totals
Oldest Coin= 1920 Wheat Cent
Silver Coins= 0
Rings= 1
Welcome to the club!!
Nice find!
Congrats on your first!
It looks like it has some old damage. If only that coin could talk.
Some days you get the corn, some days you get the cob
Oldest coin: 70 B.C. "Harlow Flyer" gold qtr. Stater
Oldest U.S. coin: 1814 Capped Bust Dime
Well there ya go! I have always considered those smoother Barbers as 1940-ish drops, especially the ones from the teens (which could have been early 1950s drops). Those coins saw a lot of stuff happen, two world wars, etc. Agree, if only they could talk!
Congrats on your first barber! They are pretty coin!
Detectors I use: Minelab Equinox 900 & Manticore
Favorite finds I have made:
1,000+ silver coins
92pcs of 1700's Trade Era Silver
Copper Culture Indian Artifacts
125+ War of 1812 Era buttons and relics
My wife (probably should have started with that one)
Congrats and welcome to the Barber club! I see you are also into the eating utensil club!
Equipment:
Minelab: CTX 3030, GPX 4800, X-Terra 705. Whites TDI SL.
2024: Silver 1, Gold 0
Best finds: 28 silver dime spill, 1800s Dutch customs seal.
Oldest/best coins: Late 1700's Chinese Cash Coin, 1837 Upper Canada large cent, 1877 Seated Dime
Oldest Relic find: 1800 Sailors Luck token
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Quote: Treasures are like potato chips, you can never have just one!
WOOOO HOOOO another inductee into the barber club!!!!! Welcome Brother!!!
Congrats on your first GA1dad.
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Welcome to the club (that I just joined in July)!!
Land of Two Seasons - Snow and Fire Danger.
Super Congrats on your first Barber.
It must have been a great feeling when you first saw it.
Oldest Coin: 1699 William III Halfpenny
2024
Silver 5
Indian 3, Buff 1, V Nik 1, Rosie 2, Barber Dime, SLQ 1, barber qtr 1,
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Thanks everyone!!
Yeah, it was cool when I first saw it,,,, at home. It had a lot of dirt caked on it and I didn't have my glasses with me in the field. All I knew for sure was I had an old thin silver. My imagination was running wild.
Digger- O'dell,,,, yep, I think I'm gonna make a wind chime out of all the old spoons.
Primary machine= Teknetics T2
2016 Totals
Oldest Coin= 1920 Wheat Cent
Silver Coins= 0
Rings= 1
Nice score. The ring looks interesting too. Obvi it's not gold, otherwise you would have mentioned already. Once I scrolled to the junk pic, then I realized you dug a lot to get rid of masking. As of your write up, it's been a few hunts there.
Interesting idea. Maybe no need to clean them up much because they will still be in the elements anyway once they become a wind chime.Originally Posted by GA1dad
Nice. Now that you got that first one out of the way, they will now come more frequently.
Oldest find: 5,000 year old copper spearhead
Oldest coin: 1699 William III halfpenny
Purdiest coin: 1832 Capped Bust quarter
Coolest find: USA button with blue threads still on shank
"He who would search for pearls must dive below."
Great find now you need a quarter or a seated dime. Nice find WD
Total silver 3 - Goal 50 (2024 Finds) - 0 Washington - 0 Barber Dimes - 0 Mercury Dimes- - 3 Roosevelt Dimes - 0 V Nickels - 0 Buffalos - 0 War Nickels - 0 Indian - 10 Wheats - $ 3.44 in clad
Relics: MILESTONES since 2012: 1700 silver coins - 8000 Clad Quarters - 500 Roosevelts - 750 Mercury Dimes
congrats on your first barber i agree with the others they are a nice looking coin i have found many over the years but i can still remember my first it was a half dollar in a old park i was using a whites 4 db i was in a doorway of a shelter house they all said that the signal was too big they all thought it was can slaw me being new i dug just about everything went ahead and dug out pops a barber half i will never forget so at one point in time we all know exactly how you feel on your first barber again congrats on a great first find
Congrats and welcome to the Barber club . It's been about three years since I found my last one and
I'm sure wanting to find some more.
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