YAAHOO, I found my 200th silver coin for the year

[Mark in S.E. IA]

Sunday started out as being kind of a desperation hunt. I only needed one more silver coin to hit the 200th mark for the year. I don't like to go about MD'ing that way, but with the forecast for us to get some snow Sunday night and a BIG STORM moving in on Tue and Wed, I figured it maybe my last day of MD'ing this year. I started working this schoolhouse / field last Tue and I found a nice 1895s Barber Dime and a 1891 V nickel on the top of the hill where the school use to be. When I got to the field I figured my best bet was to start at the bottom of the nice sliding hill and work my way up to the top where I was working last Tue. I started off swinging the coil a lot faster then I would like to because I wanted to cover as much ground as I could Sunday. I was working the hill for about 45 min's when I come across a target that had a nice tone that didn't sound like trash and the numbers were jumping between 36 to 40. The first thing that I did was say a lil prayer to the MD'ing God's for them to please let it be a silver coin, LOL. After the lil prayer I shoveled out some dirt and checked the pile. Yep, it's in the pile. I started going through the dirt and when I saw the reeded edge of a silver coin I let out a big oh YAAHOOOO and did a happy dance on my way to the pickup to get the camera. After filming my 200th silver coin for the year, a 1901 Barber Dime. I went back to MD'ing the way I should be doing it, low and slow. After finding the Barber Dime I didn't care if I didn't find anything else for the rest of the day, but I did manage to find a few more keepers for the day. I found a 43 Merc, a 1889 IH and a really nice #8 sterling silver Thimble.

If we get all of the snow that they are forecasting for and if it don't warm up some by the end of the year, it looks like Sunday's hunt is going to be my last hunt of the year and boy was it a good one.

I took a picture of what I woke up to this morning and some people may think it's nice, but I'm not ready for " it " yet, lol

I would just like to thank everyone for the post that they have made on this great forum. I have learn things from those posts and in turn it has helped me have a great year, THANKS EVERYONE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEN8vuNNy0w

 

[bertman]

Thanks for taking us on the frosty hunt Mark... You sure made some sweet finds, and WOW, 201 silvers for the year... Congrats...

HH Robert

 

[7centsworth]

Congratulations on your 200th coin of the year. Good video also.

 

[lurksalot]

n/t

 

[Beale]

Congrats on the silver!! I really like the thimble, Beale.,

 

[Goes4ever]

that is amazing Mark, I bet you that less than 5% of people who detect never hit 200 silvers in a season, and those who do, most swing minelabs!!!!

 

[Ken L. WPA]

Congrats on the silver Mark. 200 is a lot of digging. I'm lucky if I found 10 this year. HH Ken

 

[Lizardchaser]

n/t

 

[Dirt Poor]

Great going there! Around here, silver seems to be a thing of the past. Find a silver ring or two every year, but the coins are gone....Keep doing whatever you are doing!!

 

[Mark in S.E. IA]

Great going there! Around here, silver seems to be a thing of the past. Find a silver ring or two every year, but the coins are gone....Keep doing whatever you are doing!!

Dirt Poor, I don't know what part of the country that you live in, but I'll bet their is old coins to be found on public grounds where you live. One of the things that I do to find the older coins is to think outside the box. Has anybody here ever MD'ed a round city water towers? Most of them have a fence going around them and a few of them have a nice grassy area going around the outside of the fence. I've MD'ed those and have found old coins at a few of them.

When you go to a new place for the first time don't start MD'ing where everybody else would start. Go to some way off area an start. Who knows, that area may have been the hot spot for people to be at 50 to 100 years a go, but now it doesn't look like a good area to hangout at.

You just posted that you got the BIG coil. I'm assuming that your talking about the 10.5 DD MF coil. I bought that coil over 3 years a go and that's when the silver really started to pop out of the ground for me. The ground in my area is a little on the hot side and that coil did a better job at finding the deeper old coins then the stock coil did. So I hope that coil works as good for you as it did for me.

 

[kochevar]

Congrats on all the silver. Nice video - enjoyed it! I would like to see the pile of the 201 coins!

Merry Christmas and a more Happy New Year - with more silver.

Jim Kochevar
Northern Minnesota

PS. My back yard is white!

I found 2 sleigh bells. I think they are nice. My grand kids like to ring them at Xmas. I tell them they fell off Santa's Sleigh.

 

[Crocket]

Congratulations on your 200th coin of the year.......

 

[Hawkeye Jim]

Hey Mark --- really enjoyed the video (nice job) --- plus 201 silvers for the year is fantastic!!! WTG - Hawkeye Jim.

 

[TURNMASTER]

That must have been a great moment in time. Is this your first 200 silver year?

HH
Jeff

 

[Mark in S.E. IA]

That must have been a great moment in time. Is this your first 200 silver year?

HH
Jeff

Yes it was Jeff, I never thought that I would ever find that many silver coins in one year. 4 years ago I bought the X-50 and in my first year of MD'ing I found 167 silver coins and each year after that I have been finding less an less until this year.

 

[Digger]

Hey Mark, if you've got the same weather over there that we have here, it looks like our detecting season has come to a close. Not hunting season. Just digging season. Now is the time to start researching new sites for 2010. I try to spend a few hours per week, looking through old newspapers and local history books. Hit the old microfiche at the library. Make friends with the folks at the local museum. Overlay old Atlas maps with current Plat maps and find out where the old homesites were. Contact the current owners during the winter and lay the groundwork for those spring hunts. You'd be surprised how many leads you can stir up in just a few hours a week. With some diligence, I'd be willing to bet you'll pass the 300 silver mark next year. HH Randy

 

[Mark in S.E. IA]

It's funny that you said that Randy. I started doing a lil research today, lol.

It doesn't look like I'm going to get as much snow as you are. The way it looks now, I'm on the eastern edge of the lighter snow amounts.

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Congrats on the silver, I really like the thimble! I have only found one silver thimble out of at least 100 and I found that in
England. Nice last hunt and stay warm, LOL. HH, Mike

 

[Dig]

Congrats! Your the man to pull that many coins...Loved the video...more please.

 

[Hawkeye Jim]

Mark --- just curious if you have a breakdown on your 201 silver coins ---- would be very interesting to see!

PS: looks like its gonna be a long winter............................Hawkeye Jim.