Hello my friends!!
It's been a while since I made a post on the forum. I see that many of you will soon (or already) have to hang your machines up for the season due to the inclement weather. I'm thankful I don't have to do that here in S. Cal. In fact, hunting here in the Winter is usually much better than the Summer. The ground is more diggable here in the Winter, and that's a big welcome for a guy who consistently digs 70-100+, 7-9" plugs on any given hunt.
To all my friends who can't hunt anymore for a while, just sit back and enjoy my upcoming posts. It's been a very productive couple of months for me....I've been "knee deep" in silver and coppers!!
Enjoy!!!
One day a couple of weeks back, I managed to break my previous wheatie record in the past 3 years, digging 61 old pennies from the turf, with about 8 silvers that same day. I also managed a few pieces of silver jewelry, my favorite being the old tie clasp, which has a nice polished stone in a sterling setting. The silver chain was found around 8" down in the same hole that I recovered a 1909 wheatie from. The ground is now much softer than it was a few weeks prior. Thank you, Rain!!
Okay, now for the royal letdown
part of my post...... I was hunting a very old park that I had just killed early last year before I became ill (90 silvers). I walked over to a very old section of the park, where I had found hundreds of old wheats, barber dimes, a couple of buffaloes, and some injuns. I decided that I would dig a few more deeper lower conductors in hopes of finding a buffalo or V nickel. After digging my first old wheat (a 1910) from this area, I got a good, deep nickel/pulltab reading. It was smooth sounding from all directions. I started my plug, and from around 7" down, I saw a small disk, which looked to be in a corroded bezel. It had some areas that were gold underneath all the corrosion. I couldn't make anything out on either side, so I took my loupe out and zoomed in.... The first lettering I saw on the coin was "2 1/2 D" on the bottom.....could it be a gold quarter eagle inside the rusty bezel? I proceeded to turn off my detector, and take my find to the nearest picnic bench and pour some water on it. I then saw an eagle above the "2 1/2 D", and on the reverse I saw a liberty head, but I couldn't read the date on it yet. Holy #$#$%. I could barely detect after that, thinking I had a gold quarter eagle in my pouch. After about another hour of uneventful hunting, I drove home to clean my find....I first weighed the disk/bezel, and compared it with the weight of a genuine quarter eagle....Rats!!! It was only half the weight that it should be....I then proceeded to place it in my ultrasonic cleaner, and even though I saw some areas get nice and "golden" after about 20 minutes of cleaning, it was clearly evident that someone had mounted a gold-plated over zinc quarter eagle in a bezel. 
No Way!! What a letdown!! Well, it was sure a lot of excitement for me while it lasted.
Thanks for looking!
Keep The Passion High!!
CAPTN SE
Dan
It's been a while since I made a post on the forum. I see that many of you will soon (or already) have to hang your machines up for the season due to the inclement weather. I'm thankful I don't have to do that here in S. Cal. In fact, hunting here in the Winter is usually much better than the Summer. The ground is more diggable here in the Winter, and that's a big welcome for a guy who consistently digs 70-100+, 7-9" plugs on any given hunt.
To all my friends who can't hunt anymore for a while, just sit back and enjoy my upcoming posts. It's been a very productive couple of months for me....I've been "knee deep" in silver and coppers!!
Enjoy!!!One day a couple of weeks back, I managed to break my previous wheatie record in the past 3 years, digging 61 old pennies from the turf, with about 8 silvers that same day. I also managed a few pieces of silver jewelry, my favorite being the old tie clasp, which has a nice polished stone in a sterling setting. The silver chain was found around 8" down in the same hole that I recovered a 1909 wheatie from. The ground is now much softer than it was a few weeks prior. Thank you, Rain!!
Okay, now for the royal letdown
part of my post...... I was hunting a very old park that I had just killed early last year before I became ill (90 silvers). I walked over to a very old section of the park, where I had found hundreds of old wheats, barber dimes, a couple of buffaloes, and some injuns. I decided that I would dig a few more deeper lower conductors in hopes of finding a buffalo or V nickel. After digging my first old wheat (a 1910) from this area, I got a good, deep nickel/pulltab reading. It was smooth sounding from all directions. I started my plug, and from around 7" down, I saw a small disk, which looked to be in a corroded bezel. It had some areas that were gold underneath all the corrosion. I couldn't make anything out on either side, so I took my loupe out and zoomed in.... The first lettering I saw on the coin was "2 1/2 D" on the bottom.....could it be a gold quarter eagle inside the rusty bezel? I proceeded to turn off my detector, and take my find to the nearest picnic bench and pour some water on it. I then saw an eagle above the "2 1/2 D", and on the reverse I saw a liberty head, but I couldn't read the date on it yet. Holy #$#$%. I could barely detect after that, thinking I had a gold quarter eagle in my pouch. After about another hour of uneventful hunting, I drove home to clean my find....I first weighed the disk/bezel, and compared it with the weight of a genuine quarter eagle....Rats!!! It was only half the weight that it should be....I then proceeded to place it in my ultrasonic cleaner, and even though I saw some areas get nice and "golden" after about 20 minutes of cleaning, it was clearly evident that someone had mounted a gold-plated over zinc quarter eagle in a bezel. No Way!! What a letdown!! Well, it was sure a lot of excitement for me while it lasted.Thanks for looking!
Keep The Passion High!!
CAPTN SE
Dan
Nice finds no matter how you slice it....bummer about the quarter eagle. A guy ought to carry around some nitro pills to restart the heart for moments like that....congrats on the silver and wheats anyways !!
