Another Barber Quarter!

I’ve put in a lot of hours and coil swinging to find silver.  I managed to hit a Merc at 5-6″  that sang out loud and clear.  Not sure why it wasn’t found by others.  It was the same with the Barber Quarter, it hit a solid 12-46 and was only 4″ deep.  Its the shallowest silver quarter I’ve found to date and the only one that rang up 12-46.  I thought I was digging another clad quarter until I saw the Eagle on back.   I managed to hit another deep Indian Head penny in pretty good shape.  I like finding those as much as silver!  I’m at 41 silver coins and 100 seems a million miles away.  I need to step up my research and focus on old gathering places.  I hope your finds are plenty and old 🙂  Good luck!

First Buffalo’s of the year…..

Last year I found two Buffalo nickels, one with what I think is a 1916 date and the other was a no date.  Last weekend I found two more, a 1936 S and a 1936 with full clear dates.  I’m pretty happy with my self.  I have a new feather in my cap and I put it there.  I live in a city that is very old dating back into the middle 1800’s.  If you can find a foot of ground that is in the same state it was a hundred years ago, heck 50 years ago then you found something.  There are several very old parks here in town, everyone of them has been bulldozed, cut and filled, buried under new dirt and paved etc.  So I’ve been studying the parks and managed to find a couple spots where its been barely touched or missed progress all together.  The first park I found several modern coins, but then I found a 1943S War nickel. Sweet! I like those, silver! A 1952 wheat and that was it for now.  At the really old park, I played a hunch and confirmed it through research and found two Buffalo nickels.  The area is relatively small compared to the original park, that being said, myself and a friend pulled 2 Buffalo’s, a Merc and 4 wheats from this little area.  Most, if not all the dates were from the 1930’s.  So there is still stuff out there, you just have to find it.