Winning the Lottery

Rockstone

Newbie
Dec 4, 2013
2
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Nevada, MO
Detector(s) used
Garrett Ace 350
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
This isn't today but it's like winning the lottery for me and I always wanted to share it. There is a small park in my town and I had found a 1911 Barber dime there, so I figured there was more old money. I went back and the first tone after starting was the first pic. I uncovered it and the back was what I saw first. I didn't know what it was and I was super excited to learn more. I turned it over and that was pic 2 below. After I recovered from that excitement, I settled down and started detecting again. About 15' away and the next good tone I uncovered the coin in Pic 3. How often could you find two half dollars back to back and they are 43 years apart in age. The first coin was an 1895 mint O Barber half dollar. The next coin was a 1938 mint D Walking Liberty. Less than 500,000 made. A key date.
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This isn't today but it's like winning the lottery for me and I always wanted to share it. There is a small park in my town and I had found a 1911 Barber dime there, so I figured there was more old money. I went back and the first tone after starting was the first pic. I uncovered it and the back was what I saw first. I didn't know what it was and I was super excited to learn more. I turned it over and that was pic 2 below. After I recovered from that excitement, I settled down and started detecting again. About 15' away and the next good tone I uncovered the coin in Pic 3. How often could you find two half dollars back to back and they are 43 years apart in age. The first coin was an 1895 mint O Barber half dollar. The next coin was a 1938 mint D Walking Liberty. Less than 500,000 made. A key date.View attachment 2066752View attachment 2066753View attachment 2066754View attachment 2066755
Awsesome
 

One big silver is hard enough, back to back in one hunt- insane! Add in a better date to boot and I'd say that hunt was a major success. Be sure to cover every inch of that place in both directions- Congrats & GL!
 

As I have always said, "You just never know". Last week in a school yard, I found my one and only HALF DIME. Like you, I when I first saw it, I didn't know what it was, I thought foreign coin?, my brain just did not see what I was seeing, if that makes sense. To find TWO silver half dollars like you did back to back, wonder how long it would have taken me to get up off my butt, since the second half would have placed me on it I'm sure. Great day you had their Rockstone. Nice, very nice.
 

This isn't today but it's like winning the lottery for me and I always wanted to share it. There is a small park in my town and I had found a 1911 Barber dime there, so I figured there was more old money. I went back and the first tone after starting was the first pic. I uncovered it and the back was what I saw first. I didn't know what it was and I was super excited to learn more. I turned it over and that was pic 2 below. After I recovered from that excitement, I settled down and started detecting again. About 15' away and the next good tone I uncovered the coin in Pic 3. How often could you find two half dollars back to back and they are 43 years apart in age. The first coin was an 1895 mint O Barber half dollar. The next coin was a 1938 mint D Walking Liberty. Less than 500,000 made. A key date.View attachment 2066752View attachment 2066753View attachment 2066754View attachment 2066755
What a dig! Congratulations
 

This isn't today but it's like winning the lottery for me and I always wanted to share it. There is a small park in my town and I had found a 1911 Barber dime there, so I figured there was more old money. I went back and the first tone after starting was the first pic. I uncovered it and the back was what I saw first. I didn't know what it was and I was super excited to learn more. I turned it over and that was pic 2 below. After I recovered from that excitement, I settled down and started detecting again. About 15' away and the next good tone I uncovered the coin in Pic 3. How often could you find two half dollars back to back and they are 43 years apart in age. The first coin was an 1895 mint O Barber half dollar. The next coin was a 1938 mint D Walking Liberty. Less than 500,000 made. A key date.View attachment 2066752View attachment 2066753View attachment 2066754View attachment 2066755
Awesome!!! Congrats!!!
 

Great back-to-back finds! Congratulations! Been a long time since I have recovered multiple silver coins on the same hunt. Thanks for sharing. Love to see great silver like that.
 

What a stellar day! Congrats on your big silvers!
 

This isn't today but it's like winning the lottery for me and I always wanted to share it. There is a small park in my town and I had found a 1911 Barber dime there, so I figured there was more old money. I went back and the first tone after starting was the first pic. I uncovered it and the back was what I saw first. I didn't know what it was and I was super excited to learn more. I turned it over and that was pic 2 below. After I recovered from that excitement, I settled down and started detecting again. About 15' away and the next good tone I uncovered the coin in Pic 3. How often could you find two half dollars back to back and they are 43 years apart in age. The first coin was an 1895 mint O Barber half dollar. The next coin was a 1938 mint D Walking Liberty. Less than 500,000 made. A key date.View attachment 2066752View attachment 2066753View attachment 2066754View attachment 2066755
Two bad you only found a dollar. JOKE JOKE HA HA HA I wish I had your LUCK. Nice silver back to back , hit that place till you find nothing!!!!!! H H
 

Very nice! And now you know there are probably more...!
 

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