Easter Weekend - First Gold of 2010

[z118]

Nice holiday weekend detecting wise... Firday was a day off, and I headed a few towns over to hoping to hit some tot lots and a nice old park. The tot lots proved to be just okay, and the park was a complete bust. I found myself heading home earlier than expected, so I decided to do a little hunting at a favorite spot of mine. I found some 25 silver coins, a two cent piece, a few indian heads, and 15 pieces of silver jewelry at this spot last summer. I managed to sqeeze out another couple of silver dimes during the first few hunts there this year, but the last few hunts had proved fruitless. The trouble with hunting for silver and expecting to find it is that is makes me much more inclined to ignore other signals, which is never something I like to do. At any rate, I swung around for a little under two hours, pulling sparse clad and lots of random junk since good signals are getting few and far between. I was getting a little depressed that silver was not to be found, wondering to myself where I'm going to hunt this summer, when suddenly all that trash digging paid off. I got a lousy signal - seemed a little low for a nickel - but was thrilled to see the glint of a gold chain in the muddy plug. Turned out to be a nice 14kt chain (broken) and a pendant with Jesus' face on it. Silver is nice but I'd be lying if I said I usually wouldn't trade it for a little gold!









Saturday I hit a few more tot lots with okay results, scoring a Mexican 10 peso coin, a Cananadia Toonie, and a US presidentail dollar. I also did a little dirt digging at a school for some clad and two pieces of silver jewelry - an unstamped earing and a mangled silver ring stamped "sterling."







Sunday morning I got out for a two hour hunt, hoping to score some silver at a local school that gave up oodles of wheats, 6 silver coins, and a large cent last year. Silver was not to be had, though I did manage another 7 wheats and a 55 nickel. The oldest wheat is 1909 (no V.D.B). It was disappointing to not score silver but I'm guessing it's still there somewhere.



Weekend totals for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday... 256 coins worth $23.34, 8 wheats, two pieces of silver jewelry, my first gold of 2010, and a bunch of the usual trinkets & junk. It was a nice weekend of hunting!



As always, thanks for looking and happy hunting!

[jruckman38]

nice job thats alot of stuff

[steve in so az]

that's a great pic Z ! Now the gold will come along regularly since you got the first Steve in so az

[NCBounty15]

Good job! I'm still trying to break through the 2010 gold layer myself...already got through the silver layer. Way to go! HH
NC

[frankiefry]

Heck Yah, that's a great weekend. That would be a great month! Congrats and Good Luck on future hunts, : )

[EncrustedYen]

Gratz Z..Im still waiting for my first gold of 2010.

[Treasurebone]

Man you did well!!! That is a very impressive group of finds! Well done.

[tabdog]

You earned that one.

Nice going.

Thanks fer sharin,

[Don]

Very Nice........Looks like you had lotsa diggin'!!!

[Ed in KC]

Nice pendant!

[Digger Dan]

Very cool!

[FelixtheCat]

Nice totals and great selection of stuff. The silver ring looks like it was old.

[RickO]

Great weekend!! Lots of digging, but lots of good targets. HH RickO

[GOLDisGOOD]

Good job!, I always think that the impulse and plain human earnest wants the goodies! You had a pretty good total!

Looking forward to more of your finds!

[JBEXPRESS]

Congrats! WTG!

[dave+bobbie]

great pictures and finds thanks for sharing
hh
dave+bobbie

[Cfmct]

Nice finds Z... PI JOE just found that same ring and maker detecting my yard last weekend (kiddie) ring..

[PI JOE]

Nice going Z.....very busy weekend indeed....congrats on you're first gold this yr.! Yes, I found the same silver ring.

[z118]

Originally Posted by PI JOE

Nice going Z.....very busy weekend indeed....congrats on you're first gold this yr.! Yes, I found the same silver ring.

Neat... did yours have the stone in it still? I wish the one I found wasn't so mashed up, but I won't complain about finding silver, ever!

[PI JOE]

Originally Posted by z118

Neat... did yours have the stone in it still? I wish the one I found wasn't so mashed up, but I won't complain about finding silver, ever!

No stone.....