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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[JerseyDigger19]

that 1895 barber is spectacular! Really nice VF condition and worthy of a nice coin collection, an absolute treasure to dig! Congratulations!

 

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[moosescout]

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.

That's too funny. I was there for Barney's hunt also. I was the one with the shoulder harness on. It was a fun hunt but a lot of other trash in the area made for a lot of work.

 

[McCDig]

Thx JerseyDigger19! ...and congrats on your finds in 2017. You've had a very productive year.

 

[McCDig]

I agree. At the Barney hunt I seemed to be pretty good at finding his pennies and the 3-ringers. Very generous of Mr. Dolt.

 

[DFW_THer]

You da man!!

 

[McCDig]

Thx KJP462! It was special in many ways and as you noted, the condition was one of them.

 

[McCDig]

Thanks Brad! Coil-ground hours is the key, as you know. I'm really comfortable with the F75. Have never run it in all-metal. Sensitivity is usually around 93 and I'm keeping the disc low enough to still hear nickels.

 

[moosescout]

I agree. At the Barney hunt I seemed to be pretty good at finding his pennies and the 3-ringers. Very generous of Mr. Dolt.

Yep, me too. Then as I was leaving I decided to check the rock wall where we started. Apparently no one had because I found 2 war nickles, a couple of silver quarters, a silver dime and a silver fifty cent piece. Made my day.

 

[McCDig]

Congrats on those finds. You had a good day!

 

[tomhighland]

Congratulations on your excellent finds. Liked the video. Glad to see someone else has plenty of mud caked on their gear.

 

[Scrappy]

Very nice barber - for me, early barbers are as hard to come by as seated. Cheers