By far my best day detecting ever!!!

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davbec
davbec Posts: 321 ✭✭
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My 10yr old son and I went out detecting today.
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I get a strong signal and out comes a 1897 Barber quarter.
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Like every detectorist knows, always check the hole again. So I check again and get another
strong signal. Now I'm really excited because I know it's going to be another coin. Hard to see
in the pic but it's a 1902 Barber half with a 1902 Barber dime on top of it.
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So I put the quarter back in the hole with the half and dime and take a picture of my finds
for all to see.
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I decide to check the hole again and you guessed it another signal. This time its a 1892 Barber
dime.
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So I keep checking the whole and find some garbage. Putting it together back home it looks
like the remnants of a coin purse.
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So here they are. The closest find to a coin cache that I'll probably ever experience. I still
have butterflies.
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  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    OUTSTANDING!!!!! Now that is a thrill with embedded thrills.... very cool. Thanks for sharing and the great pictures. Cheers, RickO
  • Musky1011
    Musky1011 Posts: 3,977 ✭✭✭✭
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    WOW, cool find

    I'm sure someone has been looking for that all thier lives

    Jim
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    Menomonee Falls Wisconsin USA

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  • woodwalker
    woodwalker Posts: 297 ✭
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    What a great find. I love it that your son was with you thats just priceless.
  • kevinstang
    kevinstang Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭
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    Great discoveries! 4 barbers in one day would be hard to top. Kinda neat you were also able to piece together the outline of the change purse. image
  • pocketpiececommems
    pocketpiececommems Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    That is really a neat find and nice that you had your camera to get a shot to remember.
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  • pocketpiececommems
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    By the way how did you find a spot like this? You must have done some background work.
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  • ROCKETMAN
    ROCKETMAN Posts: 200 ✭
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    GREAT find!!!! Thanks for sharing!!! Pictures tell so much but I'm wondering why you are searching a brusy hillside? You must have done some researching. What state are you in? Rich
  • davbec
    davbec Posts: 321 ✭✭
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    << <i>By the way how did you find a spot like this? You must have done some background work. >>



    Your right I have done alot of researching on this area. What first brought me to its attention was talking to a local historian who told me it was a spot where a battle took place between the Dakota and Cheyenne. So I initially started hunting for relics and on my first day I found a 1915 barber quarter ( earlier this spring) . Since then I've also found a barber half, two IH pennies and then todays find. I have seen old pics of the area in the early 1900's and it is not brushy like it is now. I try to go where others md'rs have not. So I tend to stay away of playgrounds, beaches and such. I dont care for modern clad much unless I havent found anything in awhile and just need a fix. Anyway 90% of my hunting has been in the woods this year and has paid off.
  • SilverDreams
    SilverDreams Posts: 427 ✭✭
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    Amazing!
    I lust for silver.
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  • BentFork
    BentFork Posts: 829
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    Sweet!
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  • CROCKofCOINS
    CROCKofCOINS Posts: 1,545 ✭
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    Good job of putting it all together into a good story!

    Jerry
    CROCK of COINS
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  • WillieBoyd2
    WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,410 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I wonder if the area used to be a "lovers lane",
    some guy took a girl there at night,
    they had an argument,
    she ran off without her purse,
    and couldn't locate it again.
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  • laserart
    laserart Posts: 2,255 ✭
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    The shadow reveals a bridge of some sort, is there water where it would have been popular to swim there?
    "If I had a nickel for every nickel I ever had, I'd have all my nickels back".
  • davbec
    davbec Posts: 321 ✭✭
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    << <i>The shadow reveals a bridge of some sort, is there water where it would have been popular to swim there? >>


    You guys are pretty good at noticing things. Yes there is a walking bridge that spans a water fall. I could submit a sattelite photo if your interested in what the terrain looks like. My son and I are going to be heading back out there in a few min.
  • GoldenEyeNumismatics
    GoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭
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    Great condition too!
  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    AWESOME!!!!

    That's terrific! It is indeed the remains of an old coin purse! I found one once, but there were no coins in it!

    Great post, and awesome action pics!

    Thanks for posting, and congratulations!

    By the way, that counts as a "cache", and can be entered as a single find on the monthly awards, so you have a really good chance of sewing up the Best US Coin award, even though it is for more than one coin!

    (Or at least you have a chance of giving The Mighty Phut some competition...)

    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

  • dlimb2
    dlimb2 Posts: 3,449
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    That is really cool...I bet those have been in the ground around 100 years....I love that!!!
  • loditom
    loditom Posts: 684
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    Now that is a sweet day!!
    Nice going on the barber's and HH,Tom
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  • Wade
    Wade Posts: 41 ✭✭
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    WOW!

    I'm jealous!
    Hey... sit on it!
  • Dockwalliper
    Dockwalliper Posts: 1,171 ✭✭✭
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    Awesome. image
  • marym
    marym Posts: 713 ✭
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    Holy Moses what a sweet find! Your heart must have been thumping like mad with each discovery!! Just goes to prove that research pays off image Mary
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  • gene2393
    gene2393 Posts: 769 ✭✭✭
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    wow
  • Youngerbrothers
    Youngerbrothers Posts: 1
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    FANTASTIC!! Thanks for sharing...
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  • DUBBA
    DUBBA Posts: 935
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    wow!....you lucky dog you!....wtg!...nice recovery....hh

    p.s. are you from maine by chance?....i went to high school with a dave f,. and while i know theres more than one dog named spot, i am curious....hh
    "see ya at the beach"
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  • davbec
    davbec Posts: 321 ✭✭
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    << <i>wow!....you lucky dog you!....wtg!...nice recovery....hh

    p.s. are you from maine by chance?....i went to high school with a dave f,. and while i know theres more than one dog named spot, i am curious....hh >>


    No not from Maine. Actually never been there, yet.
  • phut
    phut Posts: 1,087 ✭
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    Nice group of silver, and great job of sticking with it to find the purse parts!!

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