few old makeup tins hiding a surprise...

[gunwolf]

few hour hunt this morning...I found a few old makeup tins and a old fancy pin???? I get a call , and someone I usually detect with found a coin spill with two silvers...one is a barber dime! well I have not found a barber anything,ever! so now I am frustrated and go home.
about 4 hours later I decide to clean the finds of the day...and hiding inside the small tin was a Barber quarter! DUMB LUCK! so technically I am not calling it my first barber ( maybe my first lucky find) The larger tin is 1920"s? and the small tin 1930's? the Barber is 1914.

 

[pointer80]

Hey gunwolf, nice group of finds. Im going to give you the barber quarter. I think you found it fair and square

 

[banditicey]

I Agree It Is A Barber Find

Just in a Funny and Cute Way!

It is much harder to find the Quarter than the Dime

It took me over three years to find the Quarter and that was after finding the Half and several Dimes

Congrats on the two Compacts

I am familiar with the smaller one which is Vintage and the other can be researched on line giving you a Date

Great Pin and Great Finds

Congrats

Eva

 

[Shawnbo42]

I just found my first barber quarter since I've started detecting again (4 yrs. now). Funny thing is, I got 3 in the Same hole. I pulled the first one, almost refilled the hole, and for some reason, something caught my eye. Stuck the pinpointer back in the hole, pulled the second one, hit it again, and got the third. 1902, 1906, and 1907. I have found a number of barber dimes, probably 10 or 15 since the beginning of 2011. I find the dimes are much easier to find, maybe people carried them more often, as things weren't as costly? I have never found the half yet, although the last big silver I got was around a month ago, I got an 1875? 8 reale coin. Real beat, looks as though it was in a fire, bent up and very rough. I was able to ID it by what was left though. Anyways, back on topic....nice find! I don't know if I would have opened the tin, or did it fall apart of its own accord?

 

[Obie1]

Whenever I find those tins I usually give them a shake just to know there is not a surprise inside! Good to know that people did put things in them. Could you post a cleaned up picture of the barber? Great finds and thanks for sharing.

 

[grouser]

I dig allot of trash signals or overloads hopeing for something like that to happen GOOD FOR U !!!!

 

[Ken in Georgia]

I bet you went I know I did.

 

[NebTrac]

I'd definitely count that as a Barber Find Gunwolf. When you're coil went over it, you were going to dig it regardless. The fact it was in a compact makes it even more interesting as well. Thanks for the pictures and congratulations.

NebTrac

 

[Jim D]

Congratulations on the Barber quarter! HH

 

[Agseeker]

I've found a number of those old makeup compacts, some even with the makeup and powder puff still inside, but I've never found one with a coin inside. That's a great find--congrats.

 

[GunnarMN]

thats cool , neet history of how they put coins in things like that , goo dyou did not throw it out

 

[Coilfisher]

It's ALL dumb luck!

Congratz on your first barber quarter---I am still looking so give yourself a pat on the back!

 

[Hotcz70]

I'm countin' it for ya'

Congrats on your first barber quarter. You earned it...and you found it

Nice find!

 

[Elton]

You dug it.it is your first Barber find. [size=x-large]Congratulations[/size]