A little silver, some green Buffaloes, career "good" keeper #2000 and a 13 year project finally is complete.

[Ed (Upstate NY)]

Hasn't been my best year detecting but there were a couple of special moments. Number one was digging my first and only gold coin in 25 years, a 1906 $2.50 coronet type. Today I dug a 1916 mercury dime (no D) which was find # 2000 since I dug my first keeper (a 1900-O Barber dime on 10/31/87). I have listed all my keepers on a word spreadsheet which makes it easy to do all types of sorts on coin dates, types, location where found, etc...Again this 2000 total does not include any wheat cents. I only count silver, colonials, large cents, flying eagle & Indian head cents, 2 cent pieces, shield, V, Buffalo and war nickels, civil war tokens and pre-1900 foreign coppers. Was really happy to find a Utah state quarter last weekend because that ended a 13 year project of digging all 50 state quarters. Mint mark didn't matter, I just wanted one from each state. I don't recommend trying this unless you want to drive yourself crazy !!! I would say I dug at least 1500 quarters to put that set together !!! Season is winding down here so it was nice to dig a few more this morning. Along with the mercury dime I also dug 2 green and corroded Buffalo nickels. On the road to 3000 finds, only 998 to go !

 

[dmckee17]

Major Congrats on the keeper milestone but the Quarter project does seem like a massive undertaking, it would require a pursuit of modern clad coins instead of the old good stuff most of us love. Count me out.

 

[JeffInMass]

Great work Ed- congrats to you! I am currently at 1996, although I count semi-key wheats (12-S, etc). Whatever method we use to add 'em, still gotta find 'em!

Continued best wishes on the road to 3000!!

Jeff

 

[MikeO]

Congrats Ed on number 2000 with the 16 Merc.
Neat objective on completing the State Quarter Set.

 

[park pirate]

Nice job ED, thats a lot of coins, and a lot of swinging...Congrats to ya buddy......

 

[TwoRivers]

You've done well Ed......nice grand total....I hope you get many more hunts in and go for 10,000......!!!!!!!!

 

[UtahRich]

Congratulations on the UTAH quarter and all the great finds over the years.

Be careful when you clean the golden spike on the back of the quarter. LOL


Rich (Utah)

 

[paulz-ny]

Congrats! That gold coin must have been special hopefully one day i'll get one. hh Paul

 

[Mike Moutray - St.Louis MO]

Nice job! Would love to see that list of keepers I still need 4 more state quarters (19 if you count mintmarks)... now its time to go after the territory and national park quarters. Take care and HH, Mike.