Yard Finally Surrenders Silver Coin

[Mike1961]

Gemmy and I have been convinced that the yard in the house were we live holds silver coins but have never been able to find any. The house is old enough to have been built with square cut nails, is located on a very busy corner, across the street from a school and a church with a large congregation and is also along the route where a parade has been held for nearly 50 years or better. Nor has this yard, to the best of my knowledge, ever been detected.

We have pulled 4 or 5 wheat pennies from the yard, some nice silver jewelry and some interesting relics such as a 1934 commemorative coin/medallion produced by International Harvester to celebrate the 100 anniversary of the reaper. Yet, no silver coins. Till this morning.

With all the nails and other junk in this yard I decided that I needed to start digging a little out if I wanted to find silver. So, last weekend I started digging some of the signals I normally would ignore and pulled a nice 1945 D Wheat penny and a few zincs. Yesterday I put on the sniper coil and started a slow hunt of the yard. We found more cut nails and one interesting relic a VERY well preserved skeleton key. Today, we got out real early (This corner is so busy you can only hunt very early on weekends otherwise it is just too loud) and turned up a crusty copper penny. A few minutes later in between iron signals we got a nice 79-81 return and decided to dig. There 4 or 5 inches down was a beautiful 1936 P Washington Silver Quarter.

I really think there is more silver in this yard and plan to hunt it as much as we can. Sorry for the poor quality photo but my camera batteries are dead and I used my phone. The coin is really in great shape. I didn’t nick this one with the digger and was careful not to rub it and thus avoided scratches.

[carcur]

nice silver congrats

[blk86trbo]

Nice finds Mike! I'm kinda in the same situation as you are...I swear my yard has some silver coins, but I haven't found them yet. Can we see a picture of your International Harvester medalion? Keep it up, no doubt your yard has more silver!

[Mike1961]

Originally Posted by blk86trbo

Nice finds Mike! I'm kinda in the same situation as you are...I swear my yard has some silver coins, but I haven't found them yet. Can we see a picture of your International Harvester medalion? Keep it up, no doubt your yard has more silver!

Weeding out some junk, the sniper coil and a slow search I think made the difference. Now I'm wondering how many more silver's are there.

No problem at all on the photos



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[Thatsit]

Congrats on the silver yard coinage....nice!

[Bill_Ace_350]

Nice!!!!! I have detected less than 2 hours total all year. Can't wait to get out and find something cool!!!! Once again, nice silver!!