The Barber of Milford (Milver?)

Admiral de Salee

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Sunray DX-1, Lesche Digger
First time at a big 1868 house here. I gave up on one elusive +80's / +90's signal after digging an elephant trap. I may revisit that hole after the 2nd big dig. The 2nd one was an ephemeral high-80's number. I used the DX-1 (ghod bless the Sunray people) to direct the dig once I got 4" in. Virgin soil here is loose, with lots of small rocks. Some of the dings in this coin are probably attributable to the rocks. At least I didn't deck it. This isn't a high-value year, but this 1912-D has a lot of detail for a Barber dime.
I still don't have sufficient lighting for pics, so these don't show the beautiful pale silver color zat remind me of ze moon. Ah loave ze moon, an' ah loave zees coin. Sorry, the very nice homeowners--who told me to keep the coins like this and notify them of any Big Finds (we hope)-- are expatriate French folks. Ah loave zem, too. I'm going to spend a lot of time at this big site. There may be an Underground Railroad stop on the hill behind it (I'll be researching that).

I promised my non-MD'ing buddy Ray I'd mention the 1890 Seated dime (in at least F condition) that he found at a local middle school, just lying in the flower bed gleaming at him. Dog.. At least I now have my first Barber.
 

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Sweet digs Admiral!! Congrats on the beautiful coin.
I sure miss that part of town... lived in WB/Commerce my whole life until I moved out here to Macomb county in 2005. The kids and I are happy here, but seeing your post made my a bit home sick. Best of luck to you on return.

Smiles!
BDoo
 

BIG time congrads !!! it's a beauty !!!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D


same to your friend too !!! nothing like firsts...... :) :)
 

Boobydoo said:
Sweet digs Admiral!! Congrats on the beautiful coin.
I sure miss that part of town... lived in WB/Commerce my whole life until I moved out here to Macomb county in 2005. The kids and I are happy here, but seeing your post made my a bit home sick. Best of luck to you on return.

Smiles!
BDoo
Thanks a lot, things are picking up just at the tail-end of the year.
There are some great old houses in Commerce, that was a busy place 1830-1900. I've got enough Milford sites to keep me busy the rest of this season. We should hook up and hunt someplace in the spring. There should be a wealth of sites over in Macomb. Romeo and other R.R. towns... How've you been doing over there? Got any plat maps?
 

Beautiful condition!
 

nice dime Admiral! A 1868 house??? There should be some sweet finds there - good luck!
 

Nice Barber and great close up shot.
 

Nice VF20-25 barber dime...I am sure the size of the picture over exaggerates the dings...A nice looking coin in hand....well done
 

Very nice looking coin Admiral...Congrat's!!
 

Nice!!! yeah a little nicked but it didn't cost you anything to pick it out of the dirt.

Congrats!
 

Admiral great find. Remember if you ever get down this way, you have an open invitation to MD, G. Washington's encampment before he crossed the Delaware River to raid the Hessians at Trenton.

It's still a virgin site as far as I know. Not many people even know where it is and I haven't make time to MD there yet.
 

Thanks Captain, I've got 11 days off in a row Xmas-to-New Year's. With a chance to hunt a site like that, I'd bring along one of those kerosene-burning salamander 'jet-engine heaters' to defrost the ground. :P

Well, maybe it'd be better in the spring. The 30 vac. days get reloaded on 1/1/08.
 

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