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The weatherman predicted rain for the day, so I decided not to open shop and go detecting instead. (funny how we don't want to work in the rain, but detecting in the rain is just fine, lol!). My friend and I tried an old park in town that I've been thinking about detecting for a while now. This park dates to the early 1800s. Much to my dissapointment, it looks like it's been detected heavily in the past. My first 3 coins were nickels. It seems to me like places that have been detected in the past (probably in the '80s when detecting became widely popular) usually are devoid of a lot of silver, but contain many nickels. I guess they were only hunting silver back then? Anyway, I stuck it out for a few hours. I got a signal that was fairly consistent under a large oak tree. I dug, rechecked, and still had a signal. Dug some more, rechecked...no signal at all. Notched in Iron just to be sure, but no signal for iron either. Tried in all metal, and the signal was still there. I almost covered the hole back up, but for some reason, I dug a bit more anyway. Out popped a little disk...thought "oh well, another mem cent...but wonder why it didn't give a signal?". I wiped it off and saw the barber head! I've been waiting and hoping for my first barber! It's a 1908. I guess the dime must have turned on edge in the hole while I was digging and the detector lost the signal for some reason. Still, it was only like 4 to 5 inches down. Anyone had this happen before?
Sooo...after that nice find (and only finding older nickels and lots of mem cents and clad prior to that), I slowed the swing down, started overlapping the swing and listening a bit closer. I found 2 wheats, a 41 and 44. The oldest nickel was a 46.
I plan to go back and search a bit more carefully soon. It wasn't a day that compares to the days some of you folks are having at the "berg", "happy trails", and the "silver mine"....but it was a good day for me!
Sooo...after that nice find (and only finding older nickels and lots of mem cents and clad prior to that), I slowed the swing down, started overlapping the swing and listening a bit closer. I found 2 wheats, a 41 and 44. The oldest nickel was a 46.
I plan to go back and search a bit more carefully soon. It wasn't a day that compares to the days some of you folks are having at the "berg", "happy trails", and the "silver mine"....but it was a good day for me!
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. My first silver quarter was in a park and it give me a real bad signal but I know that park had given up plenty other goodies. It was a SLQ with no date but it was still very exciting to pull silver out of a park that you know had been hunted to death. 
Wow that Barbers in great shape. Ive had targets on edge in the side of a hole disappear like that when I was using a sovereign. Maybe the CZ dose the samething. Good Job of tracking it down.
