Went to one of my favorite old parks that has been pounded over the years but still hides some goods. So far I've pulled six silver coins from this park and every one has been a barber...4 dimes a quarter and a half dollar. Yesterday's hunt got me an 1892 dime...first year for barbers and two V nickles. All of the coins were crusty and worn but I'll take em. The V nickles are 1901 and 191?.
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Barber Park Strikes Again
- Thread starter Mcdetect
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CZconnoisseur
Active member
Nice haul! Love seeing Barbers come out of the hole!
Explorer.se
Well-known member
Nice coins! How deep were each of them?
Explorer.se said:
The nickels were shallow...maybe 3 or 4 inches. The dime was fairly deep...7 to 9 inches.
One nickle was in a swampy area where you can only swing at certain times of the year due to weeds and brush...that's how it survived detection so long.
The second nickle was really thin due to corrosion and read outside of the normal nickle range...it read a bit lower than usual...which is why it escaped for so long. Otherwise it was in an obvious location near the biggest shade tree in the park.
The dime was in an area of really bad soil. It survived due to its depth and the bad soil.
This park has been heavily hunted so there is usually a reason why an old coin is still there...depth, bad soil, masked, on edge, etc.
I found two barber dimes and two buffalo nickles in the same hole in this park. My detector at the time...a Whites Eagle ii... averaged the signal from the silver and the nickle in the hole and ID'ed the group of coins at exactly the reading for a pull tab. I usually discriminate tabs but that day I was hunting a tot lot in the park and was looking for jewelry so I used different discrimination settings.
Old California
New member
Outstanding finds!
Barber park is the right name, reminds me of two particular parks from my area we called Barber Park.
Like you, barbers and v-nickels. Gobs ot them, Tulare and Kerman it wasn't uncommon to get 6 to 10 silver's a day with equal amounts of v-nickels for those digging deep nickel signals.
You must be running a Minelab, We used Sovereigns and Explorers.
Thanks for sharing, brings back memories.
Paul
Barber park is the right name, reminds me of two particular parks from my area we called Barber Park.
Like you, barbers and v-nickels. Gobs ot them, Tulare and Kerman it wasn't uncommon to get 6 to 10 silver's a day with equal amounts of v-nickels for those digging deep nickel signals.
You must be running a Minelab, We used Sovereigns and Explorers.
Thanks for sharing, brings back memories.
Paul
Explorer.se
Well-known member
once again great haul!