What's so special about 235?

Nick A · Sep 22, 2009

235 is the number of silver coins I found from 1990-2006. In other words, pre-Minelab days... the dark ages when barely a glint of silver was there to brighten my days. I have found as many silver coins in a little over seven months as I had in 16 years! :shock:

Even more shocking is that most of these coins have come from the same old parks I was searching before.

After blowing away goals of 50, 100 and 200 silver coins for the year, I have now reached 235. The only thing that could be next is 300, can I do it? I don't know. I am just a few coins away from my 1000 wheat goal, which after today's nine is 977.

So, on to today's digs... five silver dimes 1944, 1952-D, 1941-D, 1942 and 1957-D. The 44 and 52-D were in the same hole with a 1946 wheatie. The last three dimes were a surprise, as I was going over ground I thought I had covered before on my way to a spot I had not covered yet! Guess I need to go over that area again! :roll:

Nine wheats, the oldest 1927 and about $1.50 in clad rounded out the finds.

Lowjiber · Sep 22, 2009

Man!!! That's an awesome amount of silver. WAAAAAAAY ahead of me...that's for sure.

Congratulations!!!

milco · Sep 22, 2009

Great hunt and great silver/wheat totals! Congrats! I am shooting for 25 (17) silver and 100 (87) wheats in my first year. Do you think your new machine goes deeper, just better at picking up the mediocre signals, or both?

GOLDisGOOD · Sep 23, 2009

Wow

I'm blown away. you have good luck with coins!

tabdog · Sep 23, 2009

That is cool.

You are lucky.

We dont have many old coins around here.

I do not have money to buy fancy detectors.

I hunt gold and artifacts.

I have found enough gold to pay for my 5

cheep detectors over and over again.

I wish I had an Etrack.

But I may croke before I ever buy another MD.

Maybe in tha next life,

Tabdog

Nick A · Sep 23, 2009

tabdog said:
That is cool. You are lucky. We dont have many old coins around here. I do not have money to buy fancy detectors. I hunt gold and artifacts. I have found enough gold to pay for my 5 cheep detectors over and over again. I wish I had an Etrack. But I may croke before I ever buy another MD.
Maybe in tha next life,
Tabdog

Tab,
Not sure how to take what you wrote.

I didn't post to brag, but to share my success and tell my story to inspire others. I myself, was inspired to try Minelab after seeing another person's finds.

Luck is part of it, but so is hard work. I put in a lot of hours doing my research and knowing the ground...as well as swinging the detector to find these coins. If it were truly easy, everyone would be doing it.

Cheap detectors make great finds too, so it's not completely about the cost of the machine. Researching your sites makes a bigger difference. My E-Trac was used and I traded some gold coins for it, so while it may have still been expensive, it was not as much as buying new, and I managed to get it without spending money out of my pocket. With the price of gold these days, it wouldn't take much to be able to buy a new machine.

As far as the finds, I'm a coinshooter. If I'm out detecting, I am looking for old coins. I'm not interested so much in relics or gold, so we have different ways of hunting. If I lived somewhere with more relics and gold, I would probably hunt those instead of old coins.

Best of luck to you and all. May your searches lead you to what you're looking for!

RickO · Sep 23, 2009

Very impressive totals... you have melded with your machine. RickO

xzlr8n · Sep 23, 2009

I thought I was doing good with 30 silver, and 174 wheats??? :?:

. Maybe I need a Minelab or a V3??

didyouseeroy · Sep 23, 2009

Watch your back - I am only a coin spill of 231 behind ya!!

Spectrum_a · Sep 23, 2009

Great finds and SUPER totals!!!!

OkieDigger · Sep 23, 2009

Very nice Nick. I'll never get those kinds of numbers around here with my E-Trac, but it certainly isn't hurting my count!

SteveMN · Sep 23, 2009

Those kind of numbers are incredible Nick! You must have a lot of parks to choose from.

NiagracountyNY · Sep 23, 2009

Nice Nick! Your way ahead of me for the year

I know you Hunt ALOT tho and put in the time and effort..Cant findem if you arent out lookin

Well done...Hope you get 300 By years end...HH

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