AirmetTango
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I hate when this happens!! I gotta stop torturing myself by looking at the dates on my clad 
I was hunting a pretty trashy park that I've hunted many times before, and came across a sure-fire dime signal at the right depth to match previous silver finds at the park. The dime dropped right out of the bottom of a 5" plug, and I was instantly disappointed to see that it was obviously just clad. Out of curiosity, I cleaned off just enough to read the date when I got home. Somehow I knew it would be 1965 before I even saw it....
More importantly, my Rosie slump continues - I haven't found a silver Roosevelt dime in almost a year! I only dug two of them all last year, both in May. And it's not for lack of trying - I certainly did plenty of hunting in places where I would expect Rosies to live.
The really bizarre part is I actually dug more of every other type of dime last year - in 2018 I dug 7 Mercs, 4 Barbers, and 3 Seateds. In fact, since I started in 2017 I have more Mercs than Rosies - and I have as many total Barbers as Rosies. Now, I'm admittedly far from a prolific silver coin hunter, but it still seems odd that I find so few Rosies.
What do you think? Just my area, or do other folks find the same ratios?
I was hunting a pretty trashy park that I've hunted many times before, and came across a sure-fire dime signal at the right depth to match previous silver finds at the park. The dime dropped right out of the bottom of a 5" plug, and I was instantly disappointed to see that it was obviously just clad. Out of curiosity, I cleaned off just enough to read the date when I got home. Somehow I knew it would be 1965 before I even saw it....
More importantly, my Rosie slump continues - I haven't found a silver Roosevelt dime in almost a year! I only dug two of them all last year, both in May. And it's not for lack of trying - I certainly did plenty of hunting in places where I would expect Rosies to live.
The really bizarre part is I actually dug more of every other type of dime last year - in 2018 I dug 7 Mercs, 4 Barbers, and 3 Seateds. In fact, since I started in 2017 I have more Mercs than Rosies - and I have as many total Barbers as Rosies. Now, I'm admittedly far from a prolific silver coin hunter, but it still seems odd that I find so few Rosies.
What do you think? Just my area, or do other folks find the same ratios?
