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Looks like you had a fun day! Grats on all your finds..HH
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E-Trac was on fire:hot:Best day in over 35 years of hunting,4 Barbers and one is the 1895 O key date $$$$$$:thumbup:
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R-n-R Magnolia SpringsAla
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Well deserved my friend. That is some sweet coinage and the O is awesome...I looked up the prices...dayum! Nicely done.
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[size=large]Fan - freakin' - tastic![/size]
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CONDUCTOR7E
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Very cool.
OhioCoinHunter
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Congrats on that key date Barber!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The round aluminum caps are old bottle tops and soon you will find the lead bottle top caps too. The lead tops have "smc" or "sbc" stamped on them and have iron wires rusted off at three points. The lead tops look just like a miniature beer cap, but made of lead. The drinks sold at the fairground had these caps. Pay attention as to where you located them as they are either close to where the $midway$ was or the picnic area. You will know which is which as soon as you start digging spoons, and forks... rusty red with glints of silver still plating them. Start listening for ALL LEAD AND ALL BRASS....... you are bound to find civil war buttons and lead bullets from that time...especially if you locate the shooting range. Even if the fair wasn't running close to the time of the civil war, 4th of July, many wore their only suit..,.a civil war uniform.
I have found dozens of Confederate, Union and war of 1812 buttons at fairgrounds in Iowa, so if guys were wearing their Confederate uniforms here 30 years after the war, I am sure they were doing it in MO. Also, don't be surprised if you find buttons from older era wars at a fairground that doesn't fit the same time scheme. This surprised me at first but then I realized that some buttons were handed down from father to son. If your dad didn't get his leg blown off in the War of 1812, then mom would take a button off of dad's jacket and sew it on to your Civil War jacket , 150 years later and you and I are holding a metal detector and scratching our heads as to why there is a war of 1812 button in a 1865 fairground??? Get used to the scratches...nothing like AU50 Seated Halves with a big scratch beheading old lady liberty...the plow isn't nice...and the bigger the coin.....the more likely to be hit by it...your dimes will fair the luckiest and for some reason plows don't ever, never hit the crusty old Indians. Hunt in as close to all metal as possible or you will miss cuff links and three cent pieces. I know this is an Etrac forum, but if it were me, I would hunt the fairground you are talking about with an SE, with a pro coil, in all metal, ferrous tones, at man sens 32, ignoring the falses and digging the repeaters (especially in the more open areas and definitely if it's been plowed)...and then I would take the ETrac in to play pick between the nails in the really dense trash. Good luck brother...have a ball
I have found dozens of Confederate, Union and war of 1812 buttons at fairgrounds in Iowa, so if guys were wearing their Confederate uniforms here 30 years after the war, I am sure they were doing it in MO. Also, don't be surprised if you find buttons from older era wars at a fairground that doesn't fit the same time scheme. This surprised me at first but then I realized that some buttons were handed down from father to son. If your dad didn't get his leg blown off in the War of 1812, then mom would take a button off of dad's jacket and sew it on to your Civil War jacket , 150 years later and you and I are holding a metal detector and scratching our heads as to why there is a war of 1812 button in a 1865 fairground??? Get used to the scratches...nothing like AU50 Seated Halves with a big scratch beheading old lady liberty...the plow isn't nice...and the bigger the coin.....the more likely to be hit by it...your dimes will fair the luckiest and for some reason plows don't ever, never hit the crusty old Indians. Hunt in as close to all metal as possible or you will miss cuff links and three cent pieces. I know this is an Etrac forum, but if it were me, I would hunt the fairground you are talking about with an SE, with a pro coil, in all metal, ferrous tones, at man sens 32, ignoring the falses and digging the repeaters (especially in the more open areas and definitely if it's been plowed)...and then I would take the ETrac in to play pick between the nails in the really dense trash. Good luck brother...have a ball