DIGGER27
In Memory Of
The threads pop up now and then, I started at least one other myself, but always good to remind the newbies about this from time to time.
Many have found silver coins and you knew they were silver because they looked noticeably different than the dirty clad we usually dig.
Maybe you haven't dug any yet but have read that silver coins always come up clean.
Well, I am here to tell you that is true most of the time...but definitely not all of the time.
I check my clad for dates usually in the field, give them the once over when I get back home to just to be sure, and yet three times I found silver Roosevelt dimes that got by me when I checked all my coins one last time after tumbling them clean.
Many others have too, it is rare but it happens more than you might think.
I have found surprise wheaties too but silver coins are something even more special.
This morning it happened again to me but this time with a new twist.
I tumbled a bunch of quarters last night for a few hours and then when the dirt was knocked off I changed the water and let them run the rest of the night.
I got up early this morning before going hunting and dumped them all out into a wire basket to let them dry and even though most of them were cleaned enough to look pretty new one caught my eye that looked extra clean and shiny.
I just figured it was a new quarter or it was one I found on the top of the soil in the grass which never get very dirty.
I picked it up anyway just to check the date and when I saw it I almost fell over.
1964...silver as silver can be.
I have no idea when, where or how I found this thing because all these quarters were thrown in a big jar I keep all my pre cleaned clad in and came from many hunts going back months.
I have dug 64 quarters in the past but they were all accounted for...this one had to be one of the rare dirty ones that I missed noticing on every checkpoint.
Rare...I mean unique because this never happened before.
I have found more silver coins this year than ever before because I am trying to learn to be a better coin hunter and not concentrate so much on jewelry.
Now I have another beauty to add to the total.
Check that clad boys and girls.
You too might be surprised one day.
Many have found silver coins and you knew they were silver because they looked noticeably different than the dirty clad we usually dig.
Maybe you haven't dug any yet but have read that silver coins always come up clean.
Well, I am here to tell you that is true most of the time...but definitely not all of the time.
I check my clad for dates usually in the field, give them the once over when I get back home to just to be sure, and yet three times I found silver Roosevelt dimes that got by me when I checked all my coins one last time after tumbling them clean.
Many others have too, it is rare but it happens more than you might think.
I have found surprise wheaties too but silver coins are something even more special.
This morning it happened again to me but this time with a new twist.
I tumbled a bunch of quarters last night for a few hours and then when the dirt was knocked off I changed the water and let them run the rest of the night.
I got up early this morning before going hunting and dumped them all out into a wire basket to let them dry and even though most of them were cleaned enough to look pretty new one caught my eye that looked extra clean and shiny.
I just figured it was a new quarter or it was one I found on the top of the soil in the grass which never get very dirty.
I picked it up anyway just to check the date and when I saw it I almost fell over.
1964...silver as silver can be.
I have no idea when, where or how I found this thing because all these quarters were thrown in a big jar I keep all my pre cleaned clad in and came from many hunts going back months.
I have dug 64 quarters in the past but they were all accounted for...this one had to be one of the rare dirty ones that I missed noticing on every checkpoint.
Rare...I mean unique because this never happened before.
I have found more silver coins this year than ever before because I am trying to learn to be a better coin hunter and not concentrate so much on jewelry.
Now I have another beauty to add to the total.
Check that clad boys and girls.
You too might be surprised one day.
