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Messed up target

I have hit many a coin with the Lesche, but luckily they have all been clad...Sometimes, when the ground is extremely hard, I tend to get a little careless in the holes...It may cost me big time some day, but I guess it is all part of the hobby...Not in it right now to get rich...If I wind up in California, THEN I will be in it to get rich....lol

HH,
 
Mark,

An old farmer once told me about shearing sheep, "If you haven't killed any sheep (while shearing), you haven't sheared many sheep." So if you haven't scratched any coins, you haven't dug many coins.

Last spring I dug a 1901-O Barber Half. My first Barber half and one of my favorite finds ever. It looked pretty nice except for the mark I put on her face. I really beat myself up about it until I realized that the mark was as tarnished as the rest of the coin, if the mark was fresh it would be shiney silver.

You are going to nick some coins sometime. I would rather have an old silver coin with a scratch, than not have an old silver coin at all.

Take care, Dave

P.S. to GGG, I hear the place to go to get rich is Washington State.
 
I have marked a few also. A 1850 large cent just a month ago. I was trying to get it out of a mess of roots. I couldn't see it but could pick it up wt my pinpointer. Fought wt it for too long and couldn't get whatever it was,, out from between. So I fianally jammed my trowel in there and pryed hard and here it come flying out of the dirt straight up in the air, I almost caught it. LOL

Its hard to see the sratch in the pic but it goes across her nose.

I have scrathed others also, I have bad luck wt this. Seems I can dig 50-100 new coins wtout touching them. But the one that matters ,,,I hit it somehow. Just dont figure.
 
Dave 5710:

You got that right about Washington State. There is so much lost treasure here as well as lost mines and coins... Oh the coins. It is difficult to dig a hole without finding money. I went out last week for 2 hours and found 50 coins. It must have rained coins here at some time.:lol:

Mark
Elite 2200
 
Mark! You mean that banks aren't really collapsing, they are exploding!
 
Thats just on the west of the state THERE IS NO COINS OR TREASURE ON THE EAST SIDE.

HH
Jeff:poke:
 
Hey, there are two or perhaps three "lost mines" in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. I was searching the USGS topo maps tonight and found where Platinum Creek empties into Quartz Creek. I think I'll start my search there.

I'm gunna be so stinkin rich.:biggrin:

Mark
 
That would be super cool - Not necessarily the money (well that too), but the actual discovery of a lost mine.
Read a post a while back where a guy found some markers he believed to be to a lost rich vein of gold. He was hiking out from a a camping trip and had to leave because of food and water issues. He was unable to relocate the markers even though he had been in the area camping and hiking before.

That is the jist of the story,
The moral is take pics and mark a map and take GPS readings so you don't loose it again, It got lost because it wasn't easy to find in the first place.

Makes For a Good Adventure
Jeff
 
Here's a quarter I hit the back with my digger.
 
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