Somebody Was Real Close To a Barber Dime

[RLOH]

Yesterday I took my C$ to an old playground. This playground is pretty close to 100 years old and it is hunted hard, but with some very tedious hunting, I always find something that will date this place. I have the small coil for the C$, but the eight inch coil does a great job in trash. A couple of weeks back I found a 1917 merc right by the entrance of this playground. I almost always set up the C$ with nothing notched, but yesterday I notched tabs and foil. Tabs seem to give a high tone one way with these items notched, but will not repeat from a different angle. The first thing I noticed Sunday was a bunch of big, sloppy holes that had been dug and refilled, probably Saturday. I stayed in the general area where I found the old merc and there were a couple of these holes there. Within a foot and a half of one these plugs, I got a 35 signal that would repeat from a 90 degree angle. From 7 inches in some twisted tree roots, comes a 1912 Barberdime. I have found 9 Barber coins this summer from this park and I found 7 of them with the C$. Most were masked and it takes a fast responding detector to root them out. I don't know what detector this guy was using, but it wasn't a C$. From the looks of how many holes he dug, he seemed to cover most of this spot. The local detectorists keep the surface clad cleaned out and the old deep coins are few and far inbetween, so I am guessing that this was someone new to detecting and he was trying to learn his machine. One thing for sure, he better get better at pinpointing and digging or this spot will be off limits to detecting. R.L.

 

[Bill Ladd]

way to get after the deep ones