This summer during a dry spell I went to a pounded park near me to do some basic tot lot hunting and totally by chance scored 2 barber dimes (my first ever barbers) and two buffalo nickles in the same deep hole underneath the tot lot. Not at all what I set out to find that day but that is the beauty of this hobby...the element of surprise. Based on those finds I knew there had to be other old goodies hiding elsewhere in the park but my detector at the time, an old Whites Eagle II, died shortly thereafter and it kept me out of the game for a while.
I finally got back to the park in late Oct returning with a newly purchased (but used) etrac. My first good find was an 1898 barber half (my first half), then a few days later I found an 1898 O Barber dime. In my post here on the barber dime find CZconnoisseur suggested I go back and find an 1898 barber quarter to complete the 1898 barber set.
Well...I came close today! I found a 1902 barber quarter which i am going to say completes a "barber trifecta" for the park...barber dimes, a quarter and a half dollar. I actually located the signal for the quarter several days ago and figured it had to be a silver quarter based in the ID and tone given by the etrac but when I popped the plug I found a huge mess of big roots about an inch down that I just couldn't dig through. It was literally solid roots in the hole. No doubt other detectorists had found the same signal before me and had given up when they hit the roots same as I did that day.
Today I was sitting around thinking about how good the signal sounded and decided I just had to go back with the right tools to cut through the mess of roots and extract the goods. It didn't take long for me to find the plug since it was right next to a big old pine tree. I popped the old plug, cut the roots and extracted the barber quarter. Trifecta complete! Love this hobby!
I finally got back to the park in late Oct returning with a newly purchased (but used) etrac. My first good find was an 1898 barber half (my first half), then a few days later I found an 1898 O Barber dime. In my post here on the barber dime find CZconnoisseur suggested I go back and find an 1898 barber quarter to complete the 1898 barber set.
Well...I came close today! I found a 1902 barber quarter which i am going to say completes a "barber trifecta" for the park...barber dimes, a quarter and a half dollar. I actually located the signal for the quarter several days ago and figured it had to be a silver quarter based in the ID and tone given by the etrac but when I popped the plug I found a huge mess of big roots about an inch down that I just couldn't dig through. It was literally solid roots in the hole. No doubt other detectorists had found the same signal before me and had given up when they hit the roots same as I did that day.
Today I was sitting around thinking about how good the signal sounded and decided I just had to go back with the right tools to cut through the mess of roots and extract the goods. It didn't take long for me to find the plug since it was right next to a big old pine tree. I popped the old plug, cut the roots and extracted the barber quarter. Trifecta complete! Love this hobby!
