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I was inspired by the videos in the Captn SE thread, so I took the SE Pro out for a couple of hours. In the first 30 minutes, I found a clad dime, a clad quarter, a silver quarter and a silver dime. This area has given up silver begrudgingly, so I was very pleased with the result. The silver came out black, so I didn't get that 'silver rush' that you get spotting the clearly silver coins coming out, but a 1951 quarter and a 1941 Merc were clearly silver. I don't call them 'old silver coins' since the silver quarter is not as old as I am.
I stayed on for two hours, but started digging memorials (the zinc ones were highly corroded and were pretty high pitched, but the iron content read a little higher than the silver). After hitting a couple of silver coins, I couldn't pass them up. I added an airplane and some round trash... two wheat (1916 and 1944), two nickels (1940 and 1970) as well as a strangely shaped key that says 'Bell Lock" on one side and "ROCK-OLA MFG CORP" on the other. It has a patent number and a serial number and looks to be to a bus station locker or something similar.
There was also a serrated bronze round with sharp edges. I will probably never know what that was all about, but it is nice.
Thanks for the inspiration Dan (Captn SE).
I was inspired by the videos in the Captn SE thread, so I took the SE Pro out for a couple of hours. In the first 30 minutes, I found a clad dime, a clad quarter, a silver quarter and a silver dime. This area has given up silver begrudgingly, so I was very pleased with the result. The silver came out black, so I didn't get that 'silver rush' that you get spotting the clearly silver coins coming out, but a 1951 quarter and a 1941 Merc were clearly silver. I don't call them 'old silver coins' since the silver quarter is not as old as I am.
I stayed on for two hours, but started digging memorials (the zinc ones were highly corroded and were pretty high pitched, but the iron content read a little higher than the silver). After hitting a couple of silver coins, I couldn't pass them up. I added an airplane and some round trash... two wheat (1916 and 1944), two nickels (1940 and 1970) as well as a strangely shaped key that says 'Bell Lock" on one side and "ROCK-OLA MFG CORP" on the other. It has a patent number and a serial number and looks to be to a bus station locker or something similar.
There was also a serrated bronze round with sharp edges. I will probably never know what that was all about, but it is nice.
Thanks for the inspiration Dan (Captn SE).
Good Luck and HH to you.
I only ask because I am going through a drought and digging A TON of deep clad lately! In fact my only silver in the last couple of weeks has been a roosie from about 3 inches. Almost didn't dig it but it sounded real nice! Oh well, I am due to post a killer find here soon! 