Illinois Dirtdoctor
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Last Saturday morning I had a little time and went to the same field near home I often hunt. Coins are sparse and I frequently get skunked, but when you find something it is usually pretty old. It produced the silver 1831 Capped Bust Half Dime that I posted here a couple weeks ago. I hunted about an hour before needing to leave, and found nothing.
Late in the afternoon my son, Jim, wanted to go for a hunt before dark. To try something different we went to the field edge near the road that was *known* to hold only cans, tabs, and related litter. It was slow but as dusk came I got a nice signal. I dug a Seated 1877cc Dime and he dug a Shield Nickel. We decided to come back Sunday and focus on this area.
Sunday morning we had just a couple of hours to hunt. He found an 1877cc Seated Dime and IH penny, and I found a Shield Nickel. At the end of the time we had, I got a solid signal at 6 inches deep. It was an 1875-S Seated *Quarter* (more on this later). I was really ecstatic because I usually find only dimes and this by far was my oldest quarter found. We finished the hunt, put the stuff away quickly because we were running late, and took to doing the errands so we could hunt some more.
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We returned to the area by late afternoon. I started searching between the first field row and the grass shoulder. I got a very loud hit that seemed like another can, but the sound was more pure. I hunt by sound with numbers being secondary, but it was showing 11/12-47/48, reinforcing the need to dig. It hit hard at about 5 inches - I could not pass that up. I dug to 6 inches and found nothing, but the Sunray probe was still showing a conductive target. I kept digging because I had gone this far, but at this point I honestly expected a can. I popped a chunk of dirt from the bottom of the hole at maybe 9 inches and saw something shining, and my immediate thought was
Late in the afternoon my son, Jim, wanted to go for a hunt before dark. To try something different we went to the field edge near the road that was *known* to hold only cans, tabs, and related litter. It was slow but as dusk came I got a nice signal. I dug a Seated 1877cc Dime and he dug a Shield Nickel. We decided to come back Sunday and focus on this area.
Sunday morning we had just a couple of hours to hunt. He found an 1877cc Seated Dime and IH penny, and I found a Shield Nickel. At the end of the time we had, I got a solid signal at 6 inches deep. It was an 1875-S Seated *Quarter* (more on this later). I was really ecstatic because I usually find only dimes and this by far was my oldest quarter found. We finished the hunt, put the stuff away quickly because we were running late, and took to doing the errands so we could hunt some more.
[attachment 247886 1875-S-Seated-Liberty-20c-o.jpg]
We returned to the area by late afternoon. I started searching between the first field row and the grass shoulder. I got a very loud hit that seemed like another can, but the sound was more pure. I hunt by sound with numbers being secondary, but it was showing 11/12-47/48, reinforcing the need to dig. It hit hard at about 5 inches - I could not pass that up. I dug to 6 inches and found nothing, but the Sunray probe was still showing a conductive target. I kept digging because I had gone this far, but at this point I honestly expected a can. I popped a chunk of dirt from the bottom of the hole at maybe 9 inches and saw something shining, and my immediate thought was
