Stever0812
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Today, my detecting buddy and I went to a new park that is on a 1905 map of the area. I saw some plugs that had been made probably the day before, and they were filled in but pretty obvious. Disappointing. So we started near where those plugs were to see how good they did. HA! They missed plenty of easy clad near most of the plugs we saw. I got some karma by redigging a hole my friend gave up on and I said "you can have whats down here, I just wanna see what the machine was seeing." It turned out to be a 1905 Indian in really excellent shape! It was down 6 inches, so we knew that any targets 6 or more inches were the good stuff. We went for 4 hours and only got a bunch of clad, 5 wheats (mine were 1916 S, 1919, and dateless) and another Indian. I was doing my grid, and got a deep hit, showing 7 inches that seemed to be close to silver dollar/silver half numbers, and it was really solid. I was intrigued and cautiously optimistic. So I dug down and on the bottom edge of the hole I saw the glint of silver(because I nicked the edge DOH!). I said OMG some silver down there, finally! It looked like a dime so I was even more careful in extraction, and popped the clod with the silver in it. TWO stacked Barber quarters fell out!!! I was shaking, I couldn't believe it, another first! The dates are 1898 plain and 1899 O, in about a fine grade with decent details(you can see all the letters of liberty in the headband). No wonder the machine thought it was a Morgan with all the silver down there! I was using the CTX silver mode at the time with Manual at 23, but my friend had checked the un-dug signal in Combined FE coin in Auto and still got the hit. Love this machine's capabilities. Hope to see some good finds from you all from over the coming weekend.
