By far my best day detecting ever!!!
davbec
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My 10yr old son and I went out detecting today.
I get a strong signal and out comes a 1897 Barber quarter.
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.
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.
I decide to check the hole again and you guessed it another signal. This time its a 1892 Barber
dime.
So I keep checking the whole and find some garbage. Putting it together back home it looks
like the remnants of a coin purse.
So here they are. The closest find to a coin cache that I'll probably ever experience. I still
have butterflies.
I get a strong signal and out comes a 1897 Barber quarter.
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.
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.
I decide to check the hole again and you guessed it another signal. This time its a 1892 Barber
dime.
So I keep checking the whole and find some garbage. Putting it together back home it looks
like the remnants of a coin purse.
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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I'm sure someone has been looking for that all thier lives
Jim
Menomonee Falls Wisconsin USA
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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.
Jerry
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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<< <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.
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.
Nice going on the barber's and HH,Tom
I'm jealous!
kevin
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
<< <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.
Nice group of silver, and great job of sticking with it to find the purse parts!!