Got a call from Guvner today and he said I had some rain on the way...so I figured I had better get a hunt in before it got here.
I called Big Digger (Brad)...and Dave-IL..and we decided to hit the old field site again before the rain made it too muddy.
I have been itchin' to get back out there and in fact was telling Andy Sabisch over the phone a couple of weeks ago....but we have had way too much rain to do so.
I do not own a boat...and that would have been the only way to obtain access to this site until today...so it was now or never.
As soon as it dries up enough...they will be planting crops so we figured we'd better take advantage of the couple of hours before the rain hammered us again.
First trip here gave me 8 old keepers including the 1853 half dime I'm giving away on the contest forum...so I knew the chances were good that IF I was lucky enough to find something...it would be old.
Brad is one of the best at researching and getting us permission for old sites that I've ever seen....so I hope we will have a good year.
While we are all hopeful but realistic in knowing we probably won't find 100 keeper coins every time we hunt one of our researched sites...we also know that it is possible to have that one dream day. For us to personally hope to do it each time out would be stretching it though....so we stay positive and try to rescue what old coins we can.
Today I had absolutely no keepers after 1 1/2 hours of fighting the mud and cornstalks...and I was beginning to think I was gonna' get skunked.
Finally though I got a deep screamer...and it was a textbook hit like I don't usually get in my parks.
I dug down at least 10" and popped out a dark, black disc.
[attachment 196952 barberspill10.jpg]
I then handed it to Brad so he could "work on it" a little to try and determine what it was.
After some rubbing...we could tell it was a barber dime...and we were on the scoreboard.
After taking a pic or two of it...I got ready to fill the hole back in but as always...swept the coil over the pile of dirt one more time.
What a shocking surprise to hear the SE scream silver again...and the crosshairs were absolutely pegged and buried top right corner.
Brad and I started thumbing through the pile of mud and came accross this SWEET clod with BIG silver sticking out.
[attachment 196953 barberspill2.jpg]
We then carefully started to slowly uncover it a little at a time.
[attachment 196954 barberspill3.jpg] [attachment 196955 barberspill.jpg]
It was just kind of cool to see it uncovered step by step.
[attachment 196956 barberspill4.jpg] [attachment 196957 barberspill5.jpg] [attachment 196958 barberspill7.jpg]
Finally B-Rad could take it no longer and decided enough picture taking had been done
He snatched it from my hand so he could spit shine the front a little.
This sweet 1897 & 1898 coin spill was the only coins I dug in the 2 hours but what a way to end the hunt before the rain moved in.
[attachment 196960 barberspill11.jpg] [attachment 196961 barberspill8.jpg]
I called Big Digger (Brad)...and Dave-IL..and we decided to hit the old field site again before the rain made it too muddy.
I have been itchin' to get back out there and in fact was telling Andy Sabisch over the phone a couple of weeks ago....but we have had way too much rain to do so.
I do not own a boat...and that would have been the only way to obtain access to this site until today
...so it was now or never.As soon as it dries up enough...they will be planting crops so we figured we'd better take advantage of the couple of hours before the rain hammered us again.
First trip here gave me 8 old keepers including the 1853 half dime I'm giving away on the contest forum...so I knew the chances were good that IF I was lucky enough to find something...it would be old.
Brad is one of the best at researching and getting us permission for old sites that I've ever seen....so I hope we will have a good year.
While we are all hopeful but realistic in knowing we probably won't find 100 keeper coins every time we hunt one of our researched sites...we also know that it is possible to have that one dream day. For us to personally hope to do it each time out would be stretching it though....so we stay positive and try to rescue what old coins we can.
Today I had absolutely no keepers after 1 1/2 hours of fighting the mud and cornstalks...and I was beginning to think I was gonna' get skunked.
Finally though I got a deep screamer...and it was a textbook hit like I don't usually get in my parks.
I dug down at least 10" and popped out a dark, black disc.
[attachment 196952 barberspill10.jpg]
I then handed it to Brad so he could "work on it" a little to try and determine what it was.
After some rubbing...we could tell it was a barber dime...and we were on the scoreboard.
After taking a pic or two of it...I got ready to fill the hole back in but as always...swept the coil over the pile of dirt one more time.
What a shocking surprise to hear the SE scream silver again...and the crosshairs were absolutely pegged and buried top right corner.
Brad and I started thumbing through the pile of mud and came accross this SWEET clod with BIG silver sticking out.
[attachment 196953 barberspill2.jpg]
We then carefully started to slowly uncover it a little at a time.
[attachment 196954 barberspill3.jpg] [attachment 196955 barberspill.jpg]
It was just kind of cool to see it uncovered step by step.
[attachment 196956 barberspill4.jpg] [attachment 196957 barberspill5.jpg] [attachment 196958 barberspill7.jpg]
Finally B-Rad could take it no longer and decided enough picture taking had been done
He snatched it from my hand so he could spit shine the front a little.This sweet 1897 & 1898 coin spill was the only coins I dug in the 2 hours but what a way to end the hunt before the rain moved in.
[attachment 196960 barberspill11.jpg] [attachment 196961 barberspill8.jpg]
Hawkeye Jim.
Great finds
