2nd night of the Lucky Squirrel

[Aurium]

Well I hope you guys don't mind my squirrel analogy, because I'm feeling like a blind squirrel, and also feeling lucky because the
field that I found the ring in is now turning in some silver.. (and the happy dance is in full force)

I found the 50 cent piece at about 3 inches, read as a quarter so I was thinking great..another clad quarter. (woe is me right?)
and out pops this beautiful 1943 standing liberty. It's only the second one I've ever found personally, so I was pretty happy to see it.

Soo walking about 40-50 feet further I got a very intermittent signal penny-dime type at about 5 inches down. And it was strong at 22.4 and 2.5
a little stronger at the 2.5 so I decided to dig it, and see what's up. Yup another silver..woot..1943 merc. (Merc's are one of my favorite coins)

Then on another leg of my grid I hit a pretty good quarter signal and dug the memorial token, for Operation Northern Watch, looks like a military commemorative for Incirlik Turkey. It was still in the leather pouch which is under the token in the picture.

All in all a great weekend of hunting, and finds!!

oh..and my advice to others.. is Grid the fields, go slow (very slow) dig the iffies, and maybe you're in for a nice surprise.

(all found tonight in HiPro, and the D2)

 

[david1962hd]

GREAT FINDS!! Keep up the good work!!!!

 

[moose]

Excellent finds Aurium,

I've only found one 50 cent piece,a 1952 at 5" and banged hard with a vdi of 91. At first didn't believe it but when she popped out OOOOHH YEAH!!

Any ideas on the date of the commemorative?
Keep up the good work..HH.

 

[Aurium]

Excellent finds Aurium,

I've only found one 50 cent piece,a 1952 at 5" and banged hard with a vdi of 91. At first didn't believe it but when she popped out OOOOHH YEAH!!

Any ideas on the date of the commemorative?
Keep up the good work..HH.

The commemorative, has no date on it, I've checked it, but not researched it. I doubt it's very old but I'm no expert on dating that kind of thing. I say (guess) it's probably something from the last 10 years or so. I've never found a franklin 50 cent piece.. but so far this year I've found 3 clad 50 cent pieces, and now the silver 50 cent piece.
The V3 with a little tenacity, and a little research can turn in some great finds. (that or have the luck of a blind squirrel)

 

[Rob (IL)]

Nice finds. You can never go too slow or cover an area too many times. I just got back from a hunt. I found a large cent and silver half last time and we decided to go back there again. This time my partner got 2 wheats in the same area. I then went over it again and got a silver quarter, Indian and 3 more wheates. It just takes an inch to miss a deeper target. Rob

 

[ronthebomb]

Great find I love that standing liberty half, I found one around 1978 with a whites 5000d about 5" down. That same day in same school yard found 9 silver Rosie's and 4 Merck's. That was when there was less trash and the silver was everywhere.

 

[Aurium]

Yes. my first standing liberty was with my Whites 6000 di/pro, found an old sledding hill and happened to run across it. Had a lot more luck that day, and it happened to be my only find that time out. (must have been close to 15 years ago)

I still really like the di/pro, and I was using it a lot last year. (this year with the new V3.I'm just getting out a lot more) Probably because it's like having a magic wand. Finding coins for me is like an addiction, best part of it though is that I get a little jingle in my pouch for a little bit of hoop swinging.