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First Silver Coin Find?

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Blind Squirrel

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Howdy--

Ironsight's "Old Timers" post got me thinking about the old days and my first silver coin find. It was in the mid 1950's and I was looking for snakes in a field across the street from my house. I turned over a large paint can lid and noticed what appeared to be a coin. I took it home and showed it to my Grandmother and asked her what it was. I had never seen anything like it before. After rinsing it under the faucet she said: "Honey, it's a dime!" That was it - my first silver find - a 1900 Barber dime, that I still have. How about you? Do you remember your first silver coin find? Best of luck and...

Happy Hunting!
Blind Squirrel
 
Ha! This should bring up a lot of memories! I think we all could tell of that first time, and take a person right to the exact spot no matter how many years have passed...:clapping:
Mine was a 27 merc...first few weeks into this Sport...and yes, I still have it in a nice little case!:rofl:
Mud
 
Mine was also a barber dime,think it was 1906 dont remember exactly ...my first few silvers were barber dimes..seemed like every where i went i found one...then i started finding mercs on a regular basis. ..it was acually quite a while till i found my first rosie...
 
First silver was a 1946 Rosie! Decided to hunt under a older bridge in town and got a good signal. Besides the little big of dust covering it,it was laying right on the ground! From what I can tell it had been under that bridge for a long time. The obverse was facing down and was in great shape. The tails side that was subjected to all those years of dust and bum urine was soooo stained, it will never come clean. I've been back countless times but that's the only silver I ever pulled out of there. I made it a point to try under overpasses and bridges during the day and have found lots of neat things. Mostly clad coins I'm guessing dropped by the homeless. Oh yea and thousands of beer bottle caps!
 
Being a relatively newcomer to this hobby it is not difficult for me to remember my first silver coin. 1939 Washington Quarter. The same yard later produced a 1911 Barber Dime and a 1943 Washington Quarter. I had only been detecting for a few months and was thrilled to see Silver come out of the dirt.

For some reason I still get a thrill when the rare silver coin decides to join my meager collection. There was one coin that surprised me when I found it. I was down in Ga and was working a grass strip between the side walk and the street when a gentleman asked me if I would like to detect the church yard. Of course I replied in the affirmative. He had lost a coin from the UK and was sure that it was in the church yard.

I spent quite a bit of time working the yard and was not managing much in the way of decent targets. I had found a couple wheat pennies but nothing else but a little clad. I suspected that someone had hit that church yard pretty hard.

Had a small area left to detect and got a nice hit. Turned over a leaf and lying on the ground under the leaf was a 1950 Rosie. I suspect that the person that detected the church yard and found it and then dropped it.

I did not find the gentleman's coin.
 
I started detecting in the 70s. Finding a silver coin back then was no where the big deal it is today. They were a dime a dozen. LOL
So i can't say when i found my 1st silver coin but i do remember my 1st Barber, a dime to be exact!
It was a late 1800 something, forget the date but it was the oldest coin i found to date at that time.
Found it and a bunch more in a vacant lot in downtown San Diego. Found out later that site was an old turn of the century trolley station.
Its still squirreled away somewhere in my house.
 
Mud, we never forget the first one do we? My first one while using a detector ( a Fisher 1260X) was also a merc. I can't point to the exact spot now because there is a pump jack on that site. Often though, when re-hunting a site, I'll see the tell-tale indications of a long ago filled in hole and say: "Ahh, yes, THAT'S where I dug those WW2 Navy Wings or...

Best of luck and...

Happy Hunting!
Blind Squirrel
 
Bootyhoundpa, that's a great start in detecting. Good finds like that keep us motivated! Best of luck and...

Happy Hunting!
Blind Squirrel
 
Flanaganj25, I may have lost that 1946 Rosie on one of my cross-country hitchhiking adventures. Between rides, if there was a bridge in sight, I'd sleep beneath it!

That first silver, though, it gets in the blood, doesn't it? Best of luck and...

Happy Hunting!
Blind Squirrel
 
GeorgeinSC, that's a good start in detecting - a 1939 Quarter! I know what you mean about the dwindling silver finds of late. But I've had my BEST luck at vacant lots (former home sites), abandoned homes and recent tare-downs in older neighborhoods. A few months ago at a vacant lot that I must have passed over 100 times, until I finally hunted it. I found over 200 coins in one expanding hole. All together I got 35 silvers and my hunting buddy got 18 silvers. It's still out there, just have to have a little luck. Best of luck and...

Happy Hunting!
Blind Squirrel
 
Ironsight, those urban vacant lots can be VERY rewarding sites to hunt - especially in an older city like San Diego. I know what you mean about silver being no big deal in the 1970's. I remember getting the occasional merc in circulation as late as 1975. Best of luck and...

Happy Hunting!
Blind Squirrel
 
First silver coin was a 1960 D Roosevelt dime. I remember that I had my V3i and was trying out a 6x10 eclipse coil and found it about 6-7 inches deep in a place that had been hunted for 20 yrs or more. it was 2-1-14, I had been detecting since June of 2013
 
As a matter of fact, I remember it just like it was yesterday ...

Because, it WAS yesterday!

It's a 1964 quarter, only a couple of inches deep. It came out of the ground so shiny I couldn't believe it was real. Found 11 other (1965+, one of which was exactly 1965) quarters in a three-hour search in a local ball field that I finally got around to detecting, and strangely enough, I found more quarters in this hunt than any other coin. The only other coin of any interest at all was the first thing I found, a 1948 wheatie in good shape. Every thing else was pretty modern. Most of the other quarters were state quarters. Yes, I'll be going back :)

I've been in the hobby for a couple of years or so, but not nearly seriously enough. This has me fired-up, though, so maybe I'll stick with it +this+ year through the sticky summer! And the new Tejon that I ordered in the morning BEFORE I found the silver ought to help keep the enthusiasm up, too.

For those who are curious, I found the quarter swinging a Golden uMax with 3x18 CSC, in West Virginia.
 
Howdy Plugcutter--

Congratulations on your recent FIRST SILVER coin find! Hopefully, many more silvers and other good finds to follow!! Best of luck and...

Happy Hunting!
Blind Squirrel
 
Texjim, a 1920 merc is a good way to start! I dug my share of silver with my old XLT too. Best of luck and ...

Happy Hunting!
Blind Squirrel
 
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