Dug my first silver coin in KS...didn't even know it!

[DIGGER27]

Been tumbling some of my clad coins I have dug in my new hometown and found a surprise when I checked them after tumbling.
I have no idea how I missed it, I always look at my coins when I dig them for a date, (obsessive), but some are so dirty you can't see it.
The clay around here does stain the dimes and nickels pretty good, and even though silver should come up clean out of the ground, evidently, sometimes it doesn't.
This one sure didn't, I also usually check all coins pretty close when I get home after my hunts, and I checked all cleaner coins before putting them in my tumbler drum.

I have no clue where I dug this one, probably one of the parks I frequent, an older one, and I sure wish I knew which one so I could hit that one harder.

I go back to my sites over and over so I will pay more attention at the older ones and look a little harder as I dig these coins from now on.
Even the dirty ones.

All I know is...I DUG MY FIRST SILVER COIN IN KANSAS...and I am one happy fellow!

Just wait till I start knocking on doors of older homes and find even older sites to hunt when it gets warmer.
More to come.

HH

[pulltabMiner]

Congrats! You know, if you dare venture across the river into ol' MO, you may find even older coins. I heard that there is a park just north of KC MO, where a civil war battle took place.

[streetshark1966]

congrats on your first silver mine was the same 64 rosie

[DIGGER27]

Originally Posted by pulltabMiner

Congrats! You know, if you dare venture across the river into ol' MO, you may find even older coins. I heard that there is a park just north of KC MO, where a civil war battle took place.

Talked to an old guy in a park that told me about a place in Edwardsville where a friend of his dug mucho relics at a little known battle site.
Trips to Mo are in my future, also.

[PhotoRob06]

Sweet! You'll clean house if you start hunting yards.

I've heard of fertilizer doing funny things to silver, maybe that's what happened?

[DIGGER27]

Originally Posted by streetshark1966

congrats on your first silver mine was the same 64 rosie

Thanks.

My first silver coin ever was also a '64 I dug when I lived in Birmingham, and I dug 2 other mercs after that.
Moved to Kansas at the end of November, dug several pieces of silver jewelry, so far, but this is the first silver coin dug here in my new home.

[RyanChappell]

Way to go! I was thinking that you would hit one in the parks, especially with the volume of coins that you are digging.

I read your post that you were digging 800-1000 coins between MD Club meetings, what is that monthly? That is a lot! Keep looking there might be more! I think it was an old drop, but if you dig thousands of clad coins chances are you could even find freshly dropped silver. That is digging a lot of targets!

[DIGGER27]

Originally Posted by RyanChappell

Way to go! I was thinking that you would hit one in the parks, especially with the volume of coins that you are digging.

I read your post that you were digging 800-1000 coins between MD Club meetings, what is that monthly? That is a lot! Keep looking there might be more! I think it was an old drop, but if you dig thousands of clad coins chances are you could even find freshly dropped silver. That is digging a lot of targets!

LOL!

I dug that many so I had a chance to win the second category of my MD club contests.
2 down, 5 more to go to be considered a "Master Hunter".

The wife let me hunt all I want last month, but my to do list kept growing so I probably won't, am I am not trying to do that again, or at least till I have nothing else going on in our lives. Fat chance of that happening.

I am not even keeping count anymore, but the coins are still coming.
This was the take from a very tiny park I hunted for 90 minutes on Sunday morning.
Notice the third line of dimes and how dirty they are...just like yours.



Some of the other categories in the monthly Md club contest I would like to win are...

1. Most Coins:

2. Most Silver Coins:

3. Oldest Coin:

4. Most Valuable Coin:

5. Best Jewelry:

6. Most Unusual:

7. Best Military Relic:

Got #'s 1 and 5 checked off the list...going for the others, now.

Oldest silver, most valuable and most silver are my biggest goals right now.

Very doable, if I hit the right sites.

[pescadore]

Congratulations on your first KS silver. Hope you hit your goals this year !!

[TR Mook]

Nice job on the silver. Always best to check your coins twice. I never had a silver that I didn't recognize right away but there have been some wheats that I threw in with my clad because I couldn't tell with all the dirt.

[DIGGER27]

Originally Posted by TR Mook

Nice job on the silver. Always best to check your coins twice. I never had a silver that I didn't recognize right away but there have been some wheats that I threw in with my clad because I couldn't tell with all the dirt.

That's the funny thing about this.
I checked it when I dug it, I checked it again at home, checked all the cleaner ones again before I threw them in the tumbler...still missed it.
Every other silver coin or piece of jewelry I have dug was usually instantly recognizable as silver because they came out of the ground pretty clean.
This one was not this clean, I will guarantee it, or I would have spotted it easily.
A pleasant surprise this morning when I finally did notice it.
One of life's life's little mysteries.

[Patton]

Nice job Digger!
Many more to come I'm sure my friend!

[cougarmccxxi]

Congratulations on your first silver. It was quite a thrill for me to pull my first silver coin, my display image, from the ground.

HH.

[Captain Silver]

Congrats on your first KS silver coin!

[Charlives]

Originally Posted by DIGGER27

Thanks.

My first silver coin ever was also a '64 I dug when I lived in Birmingham, and I dug 2 other mercs after that.
Moved to Kansas at the end of November, dug several pieces of silver jewelry, so far, but this is the first silver coin dug here in my new home.

Me too...and I'm older than it.
I wonder why the silver didn't shine through. Is that common with the dirt in your area?
I dig dimes and I just throw them in my change pocket if they don't immediately look like silver, I don't even check the date.
I hope you are enjoying your new state.

[DIGGER27]

Originally Posted by Charlives

I hope you are enjoying your new state.

Why, yes I am.

Digging here, in these greater depths and in this better soil, and with the variety of finds like toy cars, scout neckerchief slides and more like I have never dug before...I am blessed!
This silver coin is just the beginning.

[HistoryFinder89]

What a pleasent surprise! Congrats!

[Jason in Enid]

Regardless of how it slipped past, congrats on breaking the silver barrier!

[FAL guy]

Awesome surprise!

[Silversmith45]

Nice. Just a first of many.