Happy yet so sad

[Jason in Enid]

Happy yet so sad - UPDATED with pics

I had a spot picked out to go detecting today and as soon as I got home from work, I changed clothes and headed out. Within a minute I had a 1918 Wheat, then a 1917, then a V nickel. I pulled a whole tribe of indians, a bushel of wheat, several Vs, a buffalo nickle, and topped it off with 3 ( THREE !!! ) Barber quarters. 1897, 1898, and 1902. There wasn't a clad coin to be found!

So you are probably wondering why I am sad. The Quarters had some BAD, white, corrosion on them. One cleaned up "ok", one looks like crap and I left the third basically as-is. None are key or semi-key dates, but I'm bummed. They had GREAT detail coming out of the ground, but the remaining metal doesn't have much.

All the other coins are soaking in soapy water and I'll see whats there later.

 

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[WHADIFIND]

Might the white corrosion actually be something like lime? Or remnants of a field marking like for soccer?

Still a great day though, right!

HH!

 

[ohiowhiteguy]

many times that has happened to me..they look sweet coming out of the ground then you think they'll clean up and they don't.
very nice finds i'd say you had a great day i'm waiting for a day like that..
OWG..

 

[FCCDFEd]

My worst day of metal detecting is better than my best day at work......hope the boss doesn't see this post.

Sounds like great finds, but remember how long they been waiting for someone like you or me to rescue them.

Keep up th good "work'

HH
fccdfed

 

[DaleGM]

thats a bummer on the condition after the first clean up Jason, but it sounds like you found MD heaven to go back to,I found a similar site to yours, after getting permission to hunt a very old vacation resort (1900 to 1950) just like the one on Dirty Dancing I hunted it 2 hours as it was getting late and I pulled out about 20 coins,all silver and wheat's with no clad. after covering abut 10 % of the resort I showed the owner some of the coins I unearthed and gave him a few of them as gratitude for letting me hunt on his property, he then tells me thank you and hes going to buy a metal detector for his son to hunt the rest of the resort and no one else is going to hunt it, now that's a bummer. that's an awesome site you found and those sites are rare to find these days so get back out there and get whats yours........

 

[jewelerguy]

There wasn't a clad coin to be found!

man, I love a spot like that. too bad about the corrosion, but still great finds in my book.

 

[Jason in Enid]

Here is a pic of everything I dug today. The newest date I can read is 1920, but I believe the token is from the 1960s.

 

[wvwildman]

nice finds congrats HH

 

[wheatfinder13]

They don't look bad, they're very cool

 

[hamiddetecting]

Very nice

Congratulations

 

[MNcoinhunter]

I have only found one barber quarter in three years back in the hobby, and you found three in one day? NOT SAD !!

 

[Jason in Enid]

I have only found one barber quarter in three years back in the hobby, and you found three in one day? NOT SAD !!

Not sad about the finds, just the horrible condition of the barbers.

 

[relicmeister]

The day I found my first and only LC was like that-was horrified with the condition after soaking in boiling peroxide.
It bees that way sometimes.