How Often Do People Find Standing Liberty Quarters???

[BARKER]

Hi Folks; Why is t so hard to find Standing Liberty Quarters???? How often do you guys find them.????
I await your replies. PEACE:RONB PEACE:RONB

 

[Dan-o]

I have only found 3 since I started detecting in 1992. In fact it was the first silver coin I ever found. I didn't know what the heck it was. I was detecting with a co-worker who got me into the hobby. Before we went detecting he told me about the SL Quarter and how the date is usually worn off due to it being raised. He said it was one of his favorite coins to find especially when the date was still visible. He said that would have been a lot of money for someone to loose back then and probably why you don't find many of them.
They only minted them from 1916-1930.
The first one I found was a 1918 date barely visible., and the second is an unknown date as it is worn off.
I just found this one last week and is in pretty good condition.
http://www.findmall.com/read.php?3,1182530
It's one of my favorites to find because of my expierence with this coin.

Dan C

 

[JB(MS)]

In the 40 years and three months since I got my first detector I've found 10,. The last one I found, in the photo, was 6 to 7 inches deep in an old, hard packed gravel parking lot .

 

[Beale]

I have never found one? I would like to though, Beale.

 

[dave5710]

I started in 2004 and have found 2. The first one was on edge about 5 inches down and I know I had walked over in several times before. The second was sticking up out of the ground along a path I was hunting. It caught my eye and I said to myself "that looks like a quarter over there. Sure enough it was.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

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[Jaichim24]

I started/joined my metal detecting club on April 4th 2008. I have an Explorer SE. I've been blessed to have been given access to some nice sites. My first Standing Liberty I found late last year, November 30th to be exact. It was 1 of 3 silver quarters I found in a pocket spill. You can check them out here.

Fortune smiled on my again this year in an early hunt on some private property, not only did I have the fortune of finding a 3 Walker halves but the remainder of the pocket spill I found about a foot away had my second SLQ I also managed to find a 2nd one that day as well, with no date and no stars, meaning it was either a 1916 or 1917.

So in exactly 2 years Ive lucked out and have found 3. I think they are rare only because of the limited run on them

 

[Cliff KS]

Well, I have been detecting for about 5 years and have never found one. According to JB, I am at least one year overdue, lol. When I finally find one, I hope it has more detail than his latest one --- man that coin is in tough condition. Of course, he is 10 ahead of me!

 

[RLOH]

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[D&P-OR]

Found 24 Standing Liberty quarters in the last 9 years.-----10 with readable dates & 14 with non-readable (worn off) dates.---Haven't found one in awhile but they're out there.---------Del

 

[gilfordberry]

I've found only one. But I have found several barbers and a seated. Don't find many old coins out here - the ground is so soft and powdery that it doesn't take long for a coin to sink beyond the reach of a detector - at least that's the excuse I use. I find a lot - and I do mean a lot - of coins but it's nearly all modern clad. If I find one or two silver coins or more than a dozen wheats in a month that's a good month. And that's out of $200 - $300 face value. The only people I know who have success finding a lot of older coins here are one that sifts trash at a mid-ninteenth century dumpsite and another that digs old privvies. That guy finds more GOLD coins than you would believe as well as an amazing assortment of relics and old bottles that are worth even more than the gold coins. (He sold one for $25,000.00) Why anyone would pay that kind of money for an old bottle???

 

[BARKER]

Hi Folks; I was sick for a few days but I'm back.24 SL Quarters.Your either a God or you rob banks. . Those bottles are something else but how many Gold Coins have people found as well. I found one 1893 $5 back in the 1970's but thats it. PEACE:RONB

 

[D&P-OR]

Don't rob banks but I do thank The Lord whenever I make a good find.----Even do that sometimes when I'm haveing a dry stretch and FINALLY find a CLAD!!! --------Del

 

[fwcrawford]

I've been detecting since 2006 and have only found one so far.
I can't say why more are not found, but I haven't found many silver Washington quarters either.
I could use the excuse that you could spot it easily when it was dropped and most were recovered by the "owners",
but due to the very large amounts of clad quarters I find, I don't think that makes since.
If there were as many lost as clad quarters, there should be millions of them out there!!!
If you keep at it, you will eventually find one.
Felix

 

[RandyNorthridgeca]

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[D&P-OR]

One of the main reasons I've found some Standing Liberty quarters is the fact that (most) of them were found in the mid-west when I lived back there.---I tried to hunt older area sites (still do) AND there wasn't as many hunters in these places (compared to some other places).----That's an all important fact--the things have to (1) be lost in these older areas in the first place & (2) they have to still be in the ground & not already found by one of a ka-zillion hunters thats already been there.----Another reason is that I'm retired & can & do hunt more than someone that is working a job.-----It's taken me literally hundreds of hunts (well over a thousand hunts) and recovering literally thousands of clads & other coins to get these 24 Standing Liberty quarters.-----I've found several Barber quarters & a bunch of silver Washingtons also but have only found one Seated Liberty quarter--an 1857 (and my oldest coin to date).----That's the "other half of the story"! ---------Del

 

[Hombre]

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[Xmarks]

I am still looking for mine,

 

[Dirtchopper]

Back in my early days of detecting there were plenty to find. As the years pass they are less common now. I think I found 5 last year. Found 17 Barber quarters though.

 

[BARKER]

5 in one year???? Your a God.!!!!! Thats awesome. PEACE:RONB