Double Barber before dark (half and quarter)

[ToySoldier]

I returned to a permission and started up where I left off a couple of months ago. Nothing too exciting was popping out from between the iron in an area I had already covered. With about an hour of light left I switched to a larger coil and moved to an area of the front yard I had not detected. I was mostly interested in just covering ground and getting a sense of things.

After digging a few signals I hit a beauty of a high tone just a few feet from where I was getting a lot of EMI and overload signals from a buried power line running to some landscape lighting. I carefully dug a 5 inch plug and the 1892 Barber quarter was just an inch or so deeper.

I rescanned the area, took a few steps, and hit a nearly identical signal, except a bit stronger and larger. I smiled to myself and considered getting out the phone to record the dig. Nah. A 1902 Barber half popped out of the plug at a similar depth as the quarter.

I kept at it for a few more minutes but it was not my day to dig a barber trifecta. I did find a neat little flag.

One of the photos below shows the distance between the two coins, which are marked with two yellow flags.

 

[SilverLegacy47]

ToySoldier,

Loved your story. Great finds! Thanks for sharing.

Diana
SilverLegacy47

 

[cellrdwellr]

Been too long since I've seen a big barber, congrats toysoldier, excellent finds!

 

[stetam]

Great story and Barbers!

Steve

 

[EmuDetector]

great finds! can't wait to find that big of a silver!

 

[Chuck B]

Congrats on the double Barbers !

 

[Tpmetal]

Very nice! can't be upset about barbers, especially two bigger ones.

 

[markinswpa]

Well its about time, good to see you posting TS. Thats a beautiful first year Barber quarter and a sweet looking half as well. Congrats on the pair. Still looking for a Barber half. Good luck. Mark

 

[kingman mikey]

Better than a trifecta, I've yet to find a barber quarter, several b dimes but not a b quarter. Congrats.

 

[metaladdict]

Excellent coins!

 

[LovestheShiny!]

Wow, nice finds ToySoldier! Medium and Big Barbers found close to each other, impressive and congratulations!

 

[ToySoldier]

ToySoldier,

Loved your story. Great finds! Thanks for sharing.

Diana
SilverLegacy47

Great story and Barbers!

Steve

Congrats on the double Barbers !

Thanks all!

Been too long since I've seen a big barber, congrats toysoldier, excellent finds!

Thanks! I remember about two years ago there was a a bunch of people finding barber half dollars in just a few weeks. It's funny how that goes.

great finds! can't wait to find that big of a silver!

They're definitely hard to miss in the hole!

Very nice! can't be upset about barbers, especially two bigger ones.

Definitely nothing to complain about, other than the fact that the half got a few light scuffs sitting in my pouch for all of 15 minutes. It looks like I dinged it, but I didn't.

Well its about time, good to see you posting TS. Thats a beautiful first year Barber quarter and a sweet looking half as well. Congrats on the pair. Still looking for a Barber half. Good luck. Mark

Thanks! I've taken off a bunch of time from work in the past two months but didn't do as much detecting as I could have. I was glad the property owners haven't grown tired of me taking them up on the permission to show up whenever. I took them some veggies from my garden and had a nice chat. I'm going to get out again before the end of the weekend. I also have a permission at an old church I need to follow up on.

This is my second Barber half and has way more details. My first one came out black and nearly slick. An inch deep from a playground tear out at an old park.

Better than a trifecta, I've yet to find a barber quarter, several b dimes but not a b quarter. Congrats.

Thanks! This is my first barber quarter, so I was thrilled to knock it off the list to complete the three barber denominations.

 

[CTpilgrim]

That’s what I call being efficient. That’s a fantastic hunt and I’m sure you’ll be heading back there again

 

[bluebird66]

Awesome finds!

 

[Soil Surgeon]

Beautiful finds, story and photos, congrats! I'm still looking for my first Barber Half!

 

[zeemang]

Great finds man!

 

[BuscaPlata]

Awesome!!

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Nice !

 

[FLOOD]

More nice finds. So cool to liberate the relics from the earth.

 

[ToySoldier]

That’s what I call being efficient. That’s a fantastic hunt and I’m sure you’ll be heading back there again

The plan is to return for a couple of hours tomorrow night. I'm going to grid the area where the Barbers were found and dig way more targets.

Awesome finds!

Great finds man!

Awesome!!

Nice !

Thanks!

Beautiful finds, story and photos, congrats! I'm still looking for my first Barber Half!

Thanks! Both of my Barber halves were easy signals and just a matter of getting the coil over them. The location and some luck are the hard parts. One was an upper class 1800s home and the other a park in an upper class neighborhood (then and now) dating back to the late 1800s. I'd be pretty surprised to find a Barber half (or quarter) anywhere that didn't have heavy activity right at the turn of the century. I bet they were snatched up by collectors pretty quickly when the design was ended. For example, I would be surprised to find one at a house built after 1915 on farmland.

More nice finds. So cool to liberate the relics from the earth.

Thanks! I found these where I can imagine a party or other event was held in front of the house. Or, where somebody might have parked an early car before the driveway was established.