FINALLY got out again. . .it's been months! And I met up with 3 different incarnations of the goddess Liberty! She's lovely as ever to see comin' out of the ground!
I haven't been able to get out much at all lately, although the weather's been mild. But I had some pretty good luck today in a park I got skunked in a few years ago when I went there with Golddigger. It happened so long ago, I forgot I had been there before until I saw the place. I took my time and hunted slowly for about 3 hours, and managed to find a few goodies. I had not found a barber coin since last October, and hadn't found a seated since July of '07!
I've managed to find a few good coins, but the seated and barbers have been hiding from me pretty well.
The ground was perfect today at the park I went to,and after digging lots of trash and clad, the first silver I found was the barber. I couldn't read a date on it, but I was just ecstatic to pull a barber out of the ground for the first time in almost a year. I thought it was longer than that, but looking at my records, I can see I snagged one less than a year ago, but only barely. Two feet away from the barber, the merc popped out of the ground, and then things got quiet for a while, just digging wheaties and a couple of indians. After about 45 minutes of that, I got another signal that was deep and looked like a wheatie. I wasn't really expecting silver, and it was great to see the rim sticking out of the clump I pulled out of the hole. I could see the back pretty well and I could tell it was at least a barber, but the dirt clung to the front. I moved just enough of the dirt to see a part of the 7 in the date, and I could tell it was seated from the style of the number. It felt really good after such a long drought, to find a seated coin again!
Well, here are the pics - I was really stoked when I got home and realized that the barber is a semi-key 1903 S! Too bad it's not in better shape but I'll take it!
Good hunting,
Mark
I haven't been able to get out much at all lately, although the weather's been mild. But I had some pretty good luck today in a park I got skunked in a few years ago when I went there with Golddigger. It happened so long ago, I forgot I had been there before until I saw the place. I took my time and hunted slowly for about 3 hours, and managed to find a few goodies. I had not found a barber coin since last October, and hadn't found a seated since July of '07!
I've managed to find a few good coins, but the seated and barbers have been hiding from me pretty well. The ground was perfect today at the park I went to,and after digging lots of trash and clad, the first silver I found was the barber. I couldn't read a date on it, but I was just ecstatic to pull a barber out of the ground for the first time in almost a year. I thought it was longer than that, but looking at my records, I can see I snagged one less than a year ago, but only barely. Two feet away from the barber, the merc popped out of the ground, and then things got quiet for a while, just digging wheaties and a couple of indians. After about 45 minutes of that, I got another signal that was deep and looked like a wheatie. I wasn't really expecting silver, and it was great to see the rim sticking out of the clump I pulled out of the hole. I could see the back pretty well and I could tell it was at least a barber, but the dirt clung to the front. I moved just enough of the dirt to see a part of the 7 in the date, and I could tell it was seated from the style of the number. It felt really good after such a long drought, to find a seated coin again!
Well, here are the pics - I was really stoked when I got home and realized that the barber is a semi-key 1903 S! Too bad it's not in better shape but I'll take it!
Good hunting,
Mark
Congrats and get out again soon.GR