Rough day was rescued by my barber.

Dan(NM)

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Man, started the morning trying to obtain permission, bad timing(Sunday) 7 knocks, 1 no, 5 no answers and finally 1 yes. the yes turned into a big nothing burger, 3 clad pennies. So I went back to a permission I hit last weekend that gave up a few wheats and a couple of silvers and a semi-rare token. I redid most of the yard and was ready to call it a day, but, went back to a spot where I found a couple of silver dimes. I decided to hit it another angle and got a real iffy signal that gave a nice high tone every other sweep, the numbers on the CTX were bouncing, but, target trace was showing a somewhat of a hit around the 12 line. Dug down about 5 inches expecting to pull out a wheat when out pops a barber :headbang: I re-scanned the hole in all metal, 2-3 inches from the hole I was getting an iron grunt, no doubt the culprit throwing off the numbers. After that I decided to call it a day. It cleaned up really nice for around here.
 

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Nice find I don't care what the value to a coin shop is, when I find a coin like that that has been lost in time and has a story behind it. is great..... Great day nice save..., Thanks for sharing it!!!!
 

beautiful coin, great work at recovering it too. congrats on the awesome find
 

One of the very first coins I found with my Garrett Groundhog in 1988 in a private yard was a Barber quarter. I didn't even know what it was when I found it :tongue3: back then it was one tone, no meter, dig everything. I started my detecting hobby hunting yards, man, 9 outta 10 times I asked I was given permisssion, things have changed a bit since then. It didn't take me long to figure out where to spend my time :laughing7:
 

Congratualtions on the nice silver Barber! :occasion14:
 

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