Tinhorn3
Senior Member
You showed all your stuff the last 50 years, what did you find the last few days !!!!
kidding...
WOW
kidding...
WOW
Amazing early Montana Detecting! Morgan Silver Dollar, 34 Silvers!
- Thread starter LovestheShiny!
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LovestheShiny!
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I haven't done much dirt fishing since the 70's and I am blown away at the amount of silver you and others are still finding today- well done!!!
Thank you Compass! There is still a lot of Silvers on private property, and that is where I seek permissions.
Hah! Thank you Tinhorn! A good detecting time for sure!
Estima8tor
Elite Member
Congrats to you and your friend Jason on some incredible hunting.
That Morgan dollar is such a beautiful coin.
That Morgan dollar is such a beautiful coin.
MTtrashdigger
Elite Member
Pretty amazing couple of days and some super recoveries. Curious about the curb strips . Did they appear to have been narrowed over the years? So many in my town used to big and wide with old trees. Over the decades, the city has narrowed them or removed them completely to make the streets wider. I have done most of the pre WWII area strips that still appear original and a good number of the same areas yards and although I do find some silver, they are never that productive. Looks like I will need to travel a bit! The ground here is borderline diggable . The first couple inches are frozen so replacing the plug to look good after you pry it up is a bit of a challenge. Amazingly, we are headed back to the upper 40s and low 50s this week --no snow in sight.
ben_ks
Full Member
What a start to the year! Great story and pics! Thanks for sharing, and CONGRATS!
Silverhorse65
Elite Member
The man's got a monopoly going on up there in Montana! You keep posting pictures like this and your going to start a 21st Century Silver Rush on your home State 
LovestheShiny!
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Thank you Estima8tor! Yep, that Big Shiny is a pretty coin!
Hi Todd, thank you! The town we were in, the curb strips looked original, cut concrete edges (older) the trees were centered in the strips, and the grass level, except where new lawn was put in, were pretty much level with the older looking sidewalk. This was in a 1930-40's neighborhood. The curb strips definitely had been detected before, not a lot of old coins but some silver and wheat cents had been missed, and a lot of clad dropped in the last 10-15 years or so, that is my estimate on the last time these strips were hunted. And yeah, that frozen ground upper 3" does make it tricky to get that plug back into place!
Thank you Ben! Wishing you another great year too!
The man's got a monopoly going on up there in Montana! You keep posting pictures like this and your going to start a 21st Century Silver Rush on your home State
Thank you Silverhorse! I guess there is a reason the Montana State Motto is "Oro y Plata" - silver and gold!
Jeff (or)
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Excellent! thank you for sharing. Great pics.
Jeff
Jeff
LovestheShiny!
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Thank you Jeff, glad you like the story and pics!
Thank you milco, yep, those dollars are pretty nice!
LovestheShiny!
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Thank you Iggyks! I'm not sure, community colleges are a fairly recent thing, last 50 years or so. I was thinking perhaps "country club" or some sort of private organization, but just don't know yet.
GroundSweeper
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I dunno what to say. Wow is too obvious an understatement. Super hunting and daaaayyyuuuummmmm!!!!
LovestheShiny!
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Thank you GroundSweeper! I do hope to get out again later this week as temps will be back up in that area of the state, appreciate your comments!
markinswpa
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When I saw the title mention a silver dollar I thought someone had renewed your old post. Silly me. What is it with you guys and all those silver dollars. My goodness. Big attaboy to your buddy. Well LTS, I'm glad to see your still able to hunt and living up to your name big time. Just some outstanding hunting and congrats on the boatload of silver and all the other goodies.Those tokens are sweet and the sterling pendant is awesome. Good luck, Mark
LovestheShiny!
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Thank you Mark! For sure, the Big Silvers seem to be found here in Montana. I was very happy with the results of the hunt, and am going out tomorrow back to the same town to take advantage of some warm weather, even if things go half as well that will be wonderful!
aviationgale
Elite Member
If I had to guess, because of the makers marks and shield style, I would say English. No matter what, that is probably one of the most gorgeous pieces of jewelry I've seen on here. I'm hoping come late summer early fall on doing some traveling. I want to get to most of the western states and see all the sights before its too late, lol. All of course depends on the virus situation. I'd love to get to Montana and do some mding with you boys. I'm an old bat but I'm a lot of fun to be around, well at least I think I am...lol
aviationgale
Elite Member
Actually on further inspection (lol) and some sleep, I do believe that is a watch fob. Did some poking around and saw some close to what you have. Once again what a fabulous find.....
and thanks for sharing !markkjones
Junior Member
I can only hope there is some virgin place around here on California's central coast. Beautiful silver.
