1872 Half Dime

connman06 · Jun 10, 2017

I have been the metal detecting for a while now. I have not found anything remotely close to what my daughter found the other night. She was digging with her hands playing fairies under our lilac tree. She unearth an 1872 half dime. Needless to say I was shocked. My best coin is a 1906 Barber half. I just got shown up by a 9 year old with no metal detector!

milco · Jun 10, 2017

That's awesome! Better put the detector down under that lilac too.

longbow62 · Jun 11, 2017

That's cool, I concur with milko.

remmy · Jun 11, 2017

That's awesome! I'll bet you are playing under the lilac now as well! :lol:

Mud-puppy · Jun 11, 2017

Lilacs are not indiginous flora to the NA Continent.. they do not free seed replicate either...they used to be planted upwind of the farmhouse shidder and Master bedroom household back in the day...

You find a lilac bush? All by itself somewhere? Yeah..Not an accident...It was planted there by a human bean for some olfactory purpose and probably 100+ yrs old....theres a dwelling downwind I assure you...

Coleminer713 · Jun 11, 2017

Wow that's so awesome!! Imagine what she could do with a detector! :laughing:

GroundSweeper · Jun 11, 2017

Sweet! The fairies probably gave it to her.

zeemang · Jun 11, 2017

Awesome find, lucky girl!

cellrdwellr · Jun 11, 2017

That's awesome! I can't find one of them anywhere! Good for her and congrats on the barber half too , not an easy coin to find either!

AirmetTango · Jun 14, 2017

connman06 said:
....I just got shown up by a 9 year old with no metal detector!

I absolutely love this story! And you gotta get a detector in that girl's hands...she's a natural!! :laughing:

Mud-puppy said:
Lilacs are not indiginous flora to the NA Continent.. they do not free seed replicate either...they used to be planted upwind of the farmhouse shidder and Master bedroom household back in the day...

You find a lilac bush? All by itself somewhere? Yeah..Not an accident...It was planted there by a human bean for some olfactory purpose and probably 100+ yrs old....theres a dwelling downwind I assure you...

And this nugget of info is what makes this forum priceless, too...thanks, Mud!

BBsGal · Jun 14, 2017

That's so cool! You just never know what's laying around the old homestead!

woodz71 · Jun 14, 2017

..time to get her that AT Pro dad... :lol:

matmit · Jun 14, 2017

Beautiful coin!
I bet you were not expecting that :shock:

1872 Half Dime

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