ToddWisconsin
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Well it's pretty cold up here in Wisconsin and the ground is just about froze so I thought I'd write a detecting story . 2 weeks ago I posted my first Barber half and First Barber Quarter picture on here . I've been detecting since I was 12and I am 44 now .. Started with a Bounty Hunter VLF-TR 840..in all my years of detecting, them dang barber halfs and quarters eluded me . I'd find Barber dimes.. seated coins...large cents .. and all kinds of goodies .. just NO BARBER HALFS or QUARTERS! . Here is a story on how to NOT get them ..
About six years ago I was detecting with my brother in law ( KEN ) at his parents house . This house is the site of the old Chicago Northwest railroad vacation resort from the 1880's . It is many acres on a lake in Upper Michigan ... We had found many good coins over the years in this yard... lots of Indians, and Merc dimes in particular and even a few standing liberty quarters ...Down by the lake was the remains out of a few cabins that were on the site years ago . Ken was excited as he called me over and showed me a stunning Barber half he had found next to the cabin foundations .. This was like the third time he had found a Barber Half while we were detecting together . Of coarse I was a little envious... lol ( just a little) ... But I knew my time would come sooner or later ... Anyhow this yard is HUGE.. and slopes down to the lake. Most coins were DEEP... about eight inches .. so digging was very TIRESOME in this HEAVY CLAY soil .
This particular day we had been out ALL day swinging away ..and I kept getting textbook HALF DOLLAR signals near the lakeshore .. After digging about six of these signals about a foot down... I would find crushed pop cans .. They must have put some fill in certain areas of this yard over the years ...making these old cans very deep . I proceeded detecting toward the house and BAMM .. another textbook HALF Dollar signal ... I go to pinpoint this signal and it has a very large area about the size of another crushed can ... " Ahhh .. I ain't gonna dig another dang pop can! " I tell myself ..and proceed to walk right on by it .. About an hour later , My Brother in Law yells up to me ... HEY TODD ... You'll NEVER GUESS what I found in ONE hole out in the middle of the yard !! " 2 Barber Quarters and a Barber Half , ALL in the same HOLE! " ..... Of coarse I am excited... and ask him where he found them ... He says " you'll never believe it ,, right up in the middle of the yard where you were detecting earlier ..." He didn't need to show me EXACTLY where this signal was , as I ALREADY KNEW ! Here I was sitting on three beautiful BARBER coins , and passed them up for being ANOTHER CRUSHED POP CAN ... So if you r new to detecting , Or even think you know what is in the ground almost all the time , like I do
... Sometimes you can be wrong ..lol .. It's gonna be a long winter .. I already got a few sites ready for the spring thaw ! Hope you fair weather detectorists keep posting pictures for us Northerners to read about this winter , makes the time go by faster !
About six years ago I was detecting with my brother in law ( KEN ) at his parents house . This house is the site of the old Chicago Northwest railroad vacation resort from the 1880's . It is many acres on a lake in Upper Michigan ... We had found many good coins over the years in this yard... lots of Indians, and Merc dimes in particular and even a few standing liberty quarters ...Down by the lake was the remains out of a few cabins that were on the site years ago . Ken was excited as he called me over and showed me a stunning Barber half he had found next to the cabin foundations .. This was like the third time he had found a Barber Half while we were detecting together . Of coarse I was a little envious... lol ( just a little) ... But I knew my time would come sooner or later ... Anyhow this yard is HUGE.. and slopes down to the lake. Most coins were DEEP... about eight inches .. so digging was very TIRESOME in this HEAVY CLAY soil .
This particular day we had been out ALL day swinging away ..and I kept getting textbook HALF DOLLAR signals near the lakeshore .. After digging about six of these signals about a foot down... I would find crushed pop cans .. They must have put some fill in certain areas of this yard over the years ...making these old cans very deep . I proceeded detecting toward the house and BAMM .. another textbook HALF Dollar signal ... I go to pinpoint this signal and it has a very large area about the size of another crushed can ... " Ahhh .. I ain't gonna dig another dang pop can! " I tell myself ..and proceed to walk right on by it .. About an hour later , My Brother in Law yells up to me ... HEY TODD ... You'll NEVER GUESS what I found in ONE hole out in the middle of the yard !! " 2 Barber Quarters and a Barber Half , ALL in the same HOLE! " ..... Of coarse I am excited... and ask him where he found them ... He says " you'll never believe it ,, right up in the middle of the yard where you were detecting earlier ..." He didn't need to show me EXACTLY where this signal was , as I ALREADY KNEW ! Here I was sitting on three beautiful BARBER coins , and passed them up for being ANOTHER CRUSHED POP CAN ... So if you r new to detecting , Or even think you know what is in the ground almost all the time , like I do
... Sometimes you can be wrong ..lol .. It's gonna be a long winter .. I already got a few sites ready for the spring thaw ! Hope you fair weather detectorists keep posting pictures for us Northerners to read about this winter , makes the time go by faster !