Hello Everyone!
I know many of you recognize me from other detecting forums. I have some real good buddies on this forum too, so I would like to share with all of you my detecting finds for the past two weeks.
Last Thursday, I reached another milestone for the year with my 203rd silver coin recovery this year.
For the better part of this year, I have been detecting a very productive park that has produced over 250 silver coins for me since Jan. '08. I can finally say this park is starting to get real stingy on the deep silver/wheaties, so I began looking for a new spot to continue my silver digging frenzy this year, and by chance, I stumbled upon a spot which has greatly exceeded my expectations. All the finds in this post have come from one site in the last 7 hunts there.
On Thursday, I dug my best barber dime from the site, an 1895 S, which is in real good shape...maybe a $250 coin? I have found barber dimes in 5 out of my last 7 hunts there(only 1 on each of those days), which amounted to 5 dime trifectas, including a semi-grand slam, with the '47 Canadian dime on one of the trifecta days.
I have dug nearly twice as many Mercs as Rosies from this spot, and only 1 silver quarter, which is a sign that this spot must have been pillaged in the 80's and 90's by weekend hunters, but they certainly didn't get it all. Most of the coins were in the 7-9" range. If I wasn't keying in on deep, one-way whisper signals, I would have missed a good number of these coins, so you really had to concentrate hard to find them. Out of over 200 wheaties dug, I have found just 3 Indian head pennies, an 1892, 1900, and 1906. I forgot to mention that I broke my own record one day for wheat pennies found in one hole. After digging down around 8", I ended up removing 10 wheats from one plug. I also dug 2 silver rings, one being a sterling band, and the other a hand-made piece with a tiger's eye stone.
What a spot is all I can say!! I hope everyone can stumble upon a site like this at least once in their detecting lives. No research was required. The willingness to re-work a site that a couple of my buddies and I thought was previously hunted out was the key to "old coin" bliss. Always refuse to believe a spot has been hunted out.
Thanks for Looking!!
Keep The Passion High!!
HH,
CAPTN SE
Dan
I know many of you recognize me from other detecting forums. I have some real good buddies on this forum too, so I would like to share with all of you my detecting finds for the past two weeks.
Last Thursday, I reached another milestone for the year with my 203rd silver coin recovery this year.
For the better part of this year, I have been detecting a very productive park that has produced over 250 silver coins for me since Jan. '08. I can finally say this park is starting to get real stingy on the deep silver/wheaties, so I began looking for a new spot to continue my silver digging frenzy this year, and by chance, I stumbled upon a spot which has greatly exceeded my expectations. All the finds in this post have come from one site in the last 7 hunts there.On Thursday, I dug my best barber dime from the site, an 1895 S, which is in real good shape...maybe a $250 coin? I have found barber dimes in 5 out of my last 7 hunts there(only 1 on each of those days), which amounted to 5 dime trifectas, including a semi-grand slam, with the '47 Canadian dime on one of the trifecta days.
I have dug nearly twice as many Mercs as Rosies from this spot, and only 1 silver quarter, which is a sign that this spot must have been pillaged in the 80's and 90's by weekend hunters, but they certainly didn't get it all. Most of the coins were in the 7-9" range. If I wasn't keying in on deep, one-way whisper signals, I would have missed a good number of these coins, so you really had to concentrate hard to find them. Out of over 200 wheaties dug, I have found just 3 Indian head pennies, an 1892, 1900, and 1906. I forgot to mention that I broke my own record one day for wheat pennies found in one hole. After digging down around 8", I ended up removing 10 wheats from one plug. I also dug 2 silver rings, one being a sterling band, and the other a hand-made piece with a tiger's eye stone.
What a spot is all I can say!! I hope everyone can stumble upon a site like this at least once in their detecting lives. No research was required. The willingness to re-work a site that a couple of my buddies and I thought was previously hunted out was the key to "old coin" bliss. Always refuse to believe a spot has been hunted out.
Thanks for Looking!!
Keep The Passion High!!
HH,
CAPTN SE
Dan
