LovestheShiny!
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I know, I know... just another boring Montana Silver Dollar... but believe me, NOT BORING to pull one out of the ground!
My wife and I headed north to attend a memorial service for an old time friend, and left a day early to do some antique shopping and metal detecting. We arrived in early evening, visited another friend who owned a couple of rental homes in town. He gave me permission to detect all his rentals. This first one dated from about 1950, and produced 3 Silver Rosies, some wheat cents and modern coins (wheaties and clad I gave to his youngest son).
The next morning I headed to a nearby town just to check it out for possible future trips, checked a couple of small sections of curb strips (got a couple of wheat cents and King George 6 penny), and I got into 3 ca 1940's homes. The first yard had nothing, second yard had lots of recent drops, and the third yard produced a 1946 Silver Rosie, and surprised me with a beautiful 1922 Peace Dollar! The Silver Dollar was near the sidewalk on the yard side, when I swung the AT Pro over that area, I got a 96-97 readout plus the good solid high tone. I thought... couldn't be anything good but lets check, and glad I did! Nothing like BIG SHINY waiting to come out of the soil! What an unexpected but fun surprise! That was it for a bit as I needed to get back to where the memorial was happening. I did have time to meet my friend with the rentals, and we checked his 1920's rental home, which produced a Silver Washington Quarter and a couple of pretty Sterling Silver rings.
Well... after the memorial and banquet, I was pretty stoked to get out and do some more detecting that evening. I took my friends son, and my wife, and managed to get into a yard with lots of wheat cents, another yard that had a small Sterling ring, and another yard that produced a 1905 V Nickel, 1940 Merc Dime, and a Silver Rosie.
That was it, as the next morning we headed south toward home. We met my friend Jason from Helena, and did a few hours of detecting. Jason scored his 200th Silver of the year, my wife got her first coin ever with the Vanquish 440 - a Silver Rosie, while all I could manage was a cool German Luger 007 toy pin, a beautiful Victorian Silver fancy cut pendant, and 20 wheat cents along with tons of clad.
Some good hunting for sure, my 7th Montana found Silver Dollar and lots of fun and good times, thanks for your interest!
My wife and I headed north to attend a memorial service for an old time friend, and left a day early to do some antique shopping and metal detecting. We arrived in early evening, visited another friend who owned a couple of rental homes in town. He gave me permission to detect all his rentals. This first one dated from about 1950, and produced 3 Silver Rosies, some wheat cents and modern coins (wheaties and clad I gave to his youngest son).
The next morning I headed to a nearby town just to check it out for possible future trips, checked a couple of small sections of curb strips (got a couple of wheat cents and King George 6 penny), and I got into 3 ca 1940's homes. The first yard had nothing, second yard had lots of recent drops, and the third yard produced a 1946 Silver Rosie, and surprised me with a beautiful 1922 Peace Dollar! The Silver Dollar was near the sidewalk on the yard side, when I swung the AT Pro over that area, I got a 96-97 readout plus the good solid high tone. I thought... couldn't be anything good but lets check, and glad I did! Nothing like BIG SHINY waiting to come out of the soil! What an unexpected but fun surprise! That was it for a bit as I needed to get back to where the memorial was happening. I did have time to meet my friend with the rentals, and we checked his 1920's rental home, which produced a Silver Washington Quarter and a couple of pretty Sterling Silver rings.
Well... after the memorial and banquet, I was pretty stoked to get out and do some more detecting that evening. I took my friends son, and my wife, and managed to get into a yard with lots of wheat cents, another yard that had a small Sterling ring, and another yard that produced a 1905 V Nickel, 1940 Merc Dime, and a Silver Rosie.
That was it, as the next morning we headed south toward home. We met my friend Jason from Helena, and did a few hours of detecting. Jason scored his 200th Silver of the year, my wife got her first coin ever with the Vanquish 440 - a Silver Rosie, while all I could manage was a cool German Luger 007 toy pin, a beautiful Victorian Silver fancy cut pendant, and 20 wheat cents along with tons of clad.
Some good hunting for sure, my 7th Montana found Silver Dollar and lots of fun and good times, thanks for your interest!
Actually, this year has been dimes and quarters, so was delighted to pull big shiny out of the ground.
