Hello,
I basically only hunt two parks near me. I live in the suburbs and these parks are the oldest ones around that are known to produce silver that I know of.
I do hunt other parks, but they only produce clad.
Today me and three of my metal detecting friends went to one of the parks. It has been a very dry summer around here and the ground has been rock hard.
Just lately though the rains have come and the ground is nice and easy to dig. So we decided to hunt in an area that we usually pass up. It didn't take long until I got a weird signal. I was using the stock coil that came with the e-trac. I kept going over that signal and was finall able to get a CO# of 47.
So I dug it. I got a hunk of melted metal and then rescanned. Got a signal of 12-47, but in a slightly different area, very close. Dug one more small plug and out popped a 1945s Mercury dime. My friends came over to check it out. One of them said, "Don't give up on this area, keep checking it." Which I did.
I found two other coins in the same hole. Two wheaties, both 1945. Am thinking the wheaties and the hunk of metal are why I got the weird signal.
After a few more minutes, with no luck, I said go ahead check the area yourself. One of my friends, who also has an e-trac, did. He got a nice signal not
two feet away from where I got the merc. He dug up a 1946 Roosevelt dime. Grrr. LOL. Etrac = 2 silver. The others, Explorer SE and a Whites = clad and aluminum cans.
Any way am attaching the pic of my Merc. I don't have a pic of the Roosie.
Thanks for reading and HH.
Dan.
I basically only hunt two parks near me. I live in the suburbs and these parks are the oldest ones around that are known to produce silver that I know of.
I do hunt other parks, but they only produce clad.
Today me and three of my metal detecting friends went to one of the parks. It has been a very dry summer around here and the ground has been rock hard.
Just lately though the rains have come and the ground is nice and easy to dig. So we decided to hunt in an area that we usually pass up. It didn't take long until I got a weird signal. I was using the stock coil that came with the e-trac. I kept going over that signal and was finall able to get a CO# of 47.
So I dug it. I got a hunk of melted metal and then rescanned. Got a signal of 12-47, but in a slightly different area, very close. Dug one more small plug and out popped a 1945s Mercury dime. My friends came over to check it out. One of them said, "Don't give up on this area, keep checking it." Which I did.
I found two other coins in the same hole. Two wheaties, both 1945. Am thinking the wheaties and the hunk of metal are why I got the weird signal.
After a few more minutes, with no luck, I said go ahead check the area yourself. One of my friends, who also has an e-trac, did. He got a nice signal not
two feet away from where I got the merc. He dug up a 1946 Roosevelt dime. Grrr. LOL. Etrac = 2 silver. The others, Explorer SE and a Whites = clad and aluminum cans.
Any way am attaching the pic of my Merc. I don't have a pic of the Roosie.
Thanks for reading and HH.
Dan.
Good to see you got out and found some silver 
It's always fun to hunt with friends--sounds like you all had a good time. Thanks for the pictures and story.