One Spill Two Coins One Silver

[McCDig]

Over the past couple years of detecting in Baltimore City there have been three instances when I've had a nickel in the hole with a Barber quarter; the most recent occurred this past Saturday. This time it was an 1888 V-nickel that was recovered first and then, after replacing the plug I was still getting a good signal. Dug an adjacent plug and found the other coin....an 1895 Barber quarter. The coin looks like it was dropped around 1900.


Much earlier in the hunt I dug an old suspender clip. Contemporary with digging the coin spill I retrieved a marble from a hole.



These finds represented several firsts for me from this site: silver, suspender clip and marble.

Here's the video of these finds and more from that hunt.

 

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[McCDig]

Thx moosescout! I've done very little at Leakin. Went there this year for Barney Dolt's planted hunt. That's a vast area to cover but I'm sure there are better spots along the river to hunt.

 

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[McCDig]

Thx Johncoho! It was good to hear I had another signal once I'd recovered the V-nickel and even better to find silver.

 

[McCDig]

Thx deershed! It had been a while since my last silver coin. Nice to break the drought.

 

[McCDig]

Thanks Art! All good. The suspender clip came as I was grid-searching an area. The spill came from re-visiting an area where I'd dug a streetcar token the week before.

 

[McCDig]

Thx Aureus! Always amazed at what surfaces, even from places people have hammered.

 

[McCDig]

Thx VTColonialDigger! Good to hear from the Green Mountain State. GL and HH!

 

[McCDig]

Thx Jamie1993! Great to hunt together at a park new to us both. Congrats on your "V"!

 

[McCDig]

Thx sprailroad! What a tremendous story; thanks for sharing that with the forum! Another Barber/V recovery!

 

[McCDig]

Thanks Smokey! I like those clad quarter spills. Beats finding 25 memorials!

 

[McCDig]

Thanks Bryant! I think the hunters of the 70s and 80s got the Washington silvers. From stories the old-timers have told me they'd walk out of the parks with handfuls of silvers. Don't mind working the iffy signals for the deep targets they left behind.

 

[OBN]

McCDig you have been Busy!! That Silver is Beautiful!! I hope to get up to one of your club meetings someday..You guys really dig some treasures up there in Baltimore!

 

[McCDig]

Thx Stretch! Not seeing the "skull" but able to read the patent of "1856 & '70". HH and GL!

 

[McCDig]

Thx Trezurehunter! Headed back to that park tomorrow AM. Mid-19th century map shows this area to be farmland.

 

[McCDig]

Thanks Tony! Looking forward to some more deep repeatables when I hit the park tomorrow! HH and GL!

 

[McCDig]

Thx DDF! I agree with your grading; looks like a VF coin to me. Thanks for checking out the post!

 

[McCDig]

Thanks vpnavy! One of those hunts that renews hope.

 

[McCDig]

Thx OBN! Congrats on your finds this year! You're right about the finds from this group. Playing the competition board each month is a tough gig!

 

[Gridwalker306]

Whew that's a pretty quarter! Nice job

 

[McCDig]

Thx J.Cache! Been about a year since I'd dug one. HH and GL!

 

[KJP462]

Nice coins! That barber is in immaculate shape!