Pulled my second ever Barber dime, a 1911 D, woohoo!! Also pulled out a MO tax token, pretty decent shape, they usually come out of the ground pretty corroded. This last week and a half has been the most productive days of my first year hunting, love this hobby!! Thanks for lookin, HH!
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First Silver Coin of 2011!!
- Thread starter jjaddict
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TerraDigger
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JJ,
Your on a fire
Enjoy seeing your finds. Congrats!!!!!!
Your on a fire
Enjoy seeing your finds. Congrats!!!!!!mwaynebennett
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WAY TO GO!
WAY TO GO!
WAY TO GO!
I have never found something so cool. I just can't seem to find any public places that haven't been heavily attacked. Did you find it on private property or public property?
Mark
WAY TO GO!
WAY TO GO!
I have never found something so cool. I just can't seem to find any public places that haven't been heavily attacked. Did you find it on private property or public property?
Mark
Thanks!
Found it in a heavily pounded park right next to a rusty nail, still gave a sweet signal on the ole Bounty Hunter!! It was only about 4 inches down.
The key to hunting local parks, from my limited experience, is to find places within the park that don't seem like the obvious good place to hunt. It's my first instinct to hit up the base of huge old trees, which is a good spot, but everyone else has the same idea and they've been hit up over and over again. I look for places that are a little harder to access or are a little tougher to hunt, like steep slopes, little nooks and crannies, along sidewalks or any pathways, along any little stone walls that people could sit on and have change drop out of their pockets, any place a little off the beaten path, try to be creative, think of where you wouldn't want to hunt, then hunt it. Remember that in the older parks, things may not have been set up originally the way they are now, the layout of the park may have changed, equipment added, dirt moved, old buildings taken down, new ones put up....the high traffic areas change as the park does. My machine doesn't detect as deep as the high dollar units, so I usually have to get creative to pull out the goodies. I also like to find areas that have only a few inches of soil, and then rocks underneath, this keeps the old stuff from sinking too far, and people don't usually like to dig in the rocky soil, so they avoid hunting it, found my first Barber in an area like that.
But, if you can get permission to hunt houses, that's by far the way to go!! Pretty much the only way to find good virgin soil without having to do a ton of research.
Good luck!
Found it in a heavily pounded park right next to a rusty nail, still gave a sweet signal on the ole Bounty Hunter!! It was only about 4 inches down.
The key to hunting local parks, from my limited experience, is to find places within the park that don't seem like the obvious good place to hunt. It's my first instinct to hit up the base of huge old trees, which is a good spot, but everyone else has the same idea and they've been hit up over and over again. I look for places that are a little harder to access or are a little tougher to hunt, like steep slopes, little nooks and crannies, along sidewalks or any pathways, along any little stone walls that people could sit on and have change drop out of their pockets, any place a little off the beaten path, try to be creative, think of where you wouldn't want to hunt, then hunt it. Remember that in the older parks, things may not have been set up originally the way they are now, the layout of the park may have changed, equipment added, dirt moved, old buildings taken down, new ones put up....the high traffic areas change as the park does. My machine doesn't detect as deep as the high dollar units, so I usually have to get creative to pull out the goodies. I also like to find areas that have only a few inches of soil, and then rocks underneath, this keeps the old stuff from sinking too far, and people don't usually like to dig in the rocky soil, so they avoid hunting it, found my first Barber in an area like that.
But, if you can get permission to hunt houses, that's by far the way to go!! Pretty much the only way to find good virgin soil without having to do a ton of research.
Good luck!
TerraDigger
New member
I get finger cramps typing response's like yours to folks who don't have super deep $1000.00 detectors
Folks.......look at JJAddicts finds........it appears his advice is quite sound and successful..............THINK CREATIVELY
Folks.......look at JJAddicts finds........it appears his advice is quite sound and successful..............THINK CREATIVELY
Thanks everyone!
Ha ha, like the avatar eh? That wouldn't be because it's similar to yours would it?
I had the front of the barber on it first for a few minutes, then I was thinking, everyone puts the front of the coin as an avatar, so I changed it to the back. Yours is pretty sweet, is that an error, the kind where grease or somthing gets on the die and parts are blanked out? I don't know much about error coins.
I live in SW Missouri. I need to add that to a signature.
Ha ha, like the avatar eh? That wouldn't be because it's similar to yours would it?
I had the front of the barber on it first for a few minutes, then I was thinking, everyone puts the front of the coin as an avatar, so I changed it to the back. Yours is pretty sweet, is that an error, the kind where grease or somthing gets on the die and parts are blanked out? I don't know much about error coins. I live in SW Missouri. I need to add that to a signature.
deepseeker442
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nice ring wtg 
Right on.I really like the old american coins-the canadain coins are nice but not as artfull as the american one's.My one and only silver american find is a mercury dime and still one of my favorite coin finds.
Im swinging a old big-bud 220-D,it loves silver.Its been lucky the last few times out.
I found my first silver of the year, yesterday, 1960 canuck dime lol.Then a 1968 dime right after-the first year not silver.My first real time out this year and a silver dime,gonna be a good year!
Im swinging a old big-bud 220-D,it loves silver.Its been lucky the last few times out.
I found my first silver of the year, yesterday, 1960 canuck dime lol.Then a 1968 dime right after-the first year not silver.My first real time out this year and a silver dime,gonna be a good year!
Rockpop, my first silver was a Merc too, I love Mercs, they are by far my favorite coin design, well probably a tie between a Merc, SLQ, and the peace dollar. I grew up only about 100 miles from the Canadian border, I'm sure if I had a detector as a kid I could have found quite a few canadian coins, we had quite a few of them in circulation in ND.
bigsquid55
New member
NICE DIME!!!! Found my first liberty "V" nickle here in SW Iowa late last Fall 'fore the ground froze up... 1892! On a slope to the road in front of where an old house used to be! Will hit that slope again this spring! Again... Good Find... Keep after it!! HH
Great finds! Gotta love that silver! I found an IL tax token last year with my BH 505, only it's square. About the size of a squared off dime. One side says Retailers Occupation Token around the top and bottom edges with the numbers (1 1/2) printed in the center. The other side says Department of Finance State of Illinois with the 1 1/2 in the center.
I've never hunted the public parks in my area. Do you just call the park district to get permission? And, What type of camera do you have to take such great pictures? My close-ups always come out fuzzy.
Keep up the good work!
I've never hunted the public parks in my area. Do you just call the park district to get permission? And, What type of camera do you have to take such great pictures? My close-ups always come out fuzzy.
Keep up the good work!
Thanks!!
I watched someone pull one of those recently on a Youtube video, they are really cool looking, congrats on that one! I love tokens, don't find them very often though.
If you want to hunt in your local city parks, just call up your mayor and ask him/her...ha ha just kidding. I'm guessing that it is probably not against the law, it is possible that there is a city ordinance against it, but I doubt it. I don't recommend asking anyone from the city or parkboard, you will probably get an uninformed "no". Search the web for a detecting club in your area, they may even have an on-line forum, ask them, they will probably know if it is illegal. Also, local clubs are always a good thing to join, you will learn a lot from the members, and make a lot of good connections.
The camera that I use is a Sony Cyber-shot, 14.1 MP. But even my old Canon Powershot that was only a 3.1 MP still takes nice close-up photos. You need to find the Macro setting on your camera, that will take the best close-up pictures. My newest one automatically switches to Macro when I get in for a close-up, but on the old one, i had to go into the settings and put it on Macro, good luck!!
I watched someone pull one of those recently on a Youtube video, they are really cool looking, congrats on that one! I love tokens, don't find them very often though.
If you want to hunt in your local city parks, just call up your mayor and ask him/her...ha ha just kidding. I'm guessing that it is probably not against the law, it is possible that there is a city ordinance against it, but I doubt it. I don't recommend asking anyone from the city or parkboard, you will probably get an uninformed "no". Search the web for a detecting club in your area, they may even have an on-line forum, ask them, they will probably know if it is illegal. Also, local clubs are always a good thing to join, you will learn a lot from the members, and make a lot of good connections.
The camera that I use is a Sony Cyber-shot, 14.1 MP. But even my old Canon Powershot that was only a 3.1 MP still takes nice close-up photos. You need to find the Macro setting on your camera, that will take the best close-up pictures. My newest one automatically switches to Macro when I get in for a close-up, but on the old one, i had to go into the settings and put it on Macro, good luck!!
I did get a permit last year to hunt an IL State Park around Lake Shelby where we camp quite a bit. With all the rules and regulations where you could not hunt, (no where along the shoreline, no where in the camp ground, so many feet from this that and the other, no digging devices, no.... no.... no.....), the only place left to hunt was a brier patch. Needless to say I didn't even take my detector. I thought our local parks would have similar rules, so I never bothered looking into them. I will however, look into local clubs. Thanks for the advice as well as the tip on the camera.
Now go find some more silver.
Now go find some more silver.