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Got a chance to detect about 3 hrs today. No more clad buffets around this town(I cleaned 'em up), so decided to hunt "old" stuff. My choice was the empty school field where I found my only buffalo nickel this summer. Didn't take long to dig a penny, a dime, then another dime that read "penny/dime", then "quarter" on the Whites Eagle Spectrum. I know that just tells me it's not a penny. It was a Mercury dime! Nice! Back to work, I found more modern pennies & dimes, and a few wheat pennies, two nickels, and UH-OH, another penny/dime that sometimes reads quarter. Yep. Another Merc! Back to work...wheats, small change, and one penny/dime signal turned out to be a nice little Sterling band ring. ANybody know the trademark? Anyway, shortly after the ring, a guy walks out to chat me up; see what I'm finding, etc. He seemed impressed the machine would call out the type of coin, so I told him about a few days ago, it was reading a signal as "dollar", and I didn't believe it, because I have always wanted to find a silver dollar, but I said to my self "maybe it's my lucky day" That signal turned out to be 4 clad quarters, so, one dollar! We laughed at that, and went on our ways. Not three minutes later, I get a solid "dollar" signal. Pinpointed clearly at 5 inches. My carrot pinpointer went wild in the bottom of the hole, so I reached down, brushed some mud aside, and found myself staring at the biggest slab o' silver I ever saw in the dirt. Oh, so pretty! I gently lifted it out to admire in all her glory. My boyhood dream has been fulfilled. An actual silver dollar. Not a clad Ike, but a 1923 S Peace Dollar. After I snapped out of it, treasure in pocket, I went on to find a '64 Rosie, and a little more clad.
Silvers 13, 14, BIG 15, and 16 today. Plus another ring. Ground will freeze soon. This day will have to carry me for a while.
Silvers 13, 14, BIG 15, and 16 today. Plus another ring. Ground will freeze soon. This day will have to carry me for a while.
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