My First Silver

[malice51]

Found my first silver today! (Coins, anyway). I've been mostly clad hunting this summer as I get to know my Ace250. Today I hit a small picnic area and boat launch that was filled with very mature trees. I've been running my sensitivity at only 3 or 4 bars, which pretty much assures I won't find anything deeper than 4 inches. But today after having some luck with the clad I decided to run at max sensitivity. The quarter I found about 6 feet out from a very large willow tree, at about 6 inches down right next to a big exposed root. It was ringing a very strong and consistent quarter signal and showed a depth of 6 inches. In my experience to date anything showing that strong of a signal and at that depth was usually something big and not a quarter. But this time it was a beautiful silver quarter. As I was brushing the dirt off of it, it almost had a purplish tint to it. I knew immediatly it was silver. What a great feeling!

Only to be surpassed a short time later when I was hitting a hill and found a similar very strong dime signal at 8 inches. I was very excited digging it because my experience with the quarter gave me confidence this was a silver dime. I could only hope for a Mercury! And sure enough, there it was. My god what a feeling seeing that come out of the ground. Can't wait to go back again!

 

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[Mona Lisa]

Howdy, M51. Welcome to the forum. Great job!

Keep on posting!

 

[jeff of pa]

WELCOME & Congrats !

Jeff

 

[weldermark]

welcome to the forum malice51 nice find's.



HH Mark

 

[muddyknees]

nice silver my friend, good luk on that site should be more there.
muddyknees

 

[SugarSand]

Sweet Silver!? Nice finds, and now we have high expectations of you too!? ?

Oh yeah, nice pictures!!!

 

[comfyinvermont]

Congrats Malice. Welcome to the forum. I can tell you are totally hooked now. Don't worry, its not fatal...Congrats...Lance

 

[Nana40]

I know that made your day!!!! Wow! Great finds and Welcome!!!!

Nana

 

[JerV3]

Congrats, It's a great fealing to find silver after all that hard clad time. Sounds like your getting better with your unit.

Good Luck Jer

 

[Deadshot]

Welcome to the Forum and congrates on the silver. Those dimes sure are pretty aint they? Once you hear that sound of silver it is hard to forget it. Good luck on the next million silvers!!!!

Deadshot

 

[mattjd]

WOW! That Ace 250 sounds like it does great even on those deep targets. A good place to find SHALLOW, but modern silvers are at those mid-centry ranch houses.

Good luck with it!

HH Matt

 

[ClonedSIM]

You'll never forget your first silver. Mine was a 56-D Roosevelt just off the front porch of an old house. Happy Hunting!

 

[Joe88]

Congrats!! Awesome finds!! It IS such a great feeling seeing a silver coin come out of the ground!!

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Welcome to a great forum and hobby! You beat my first silver coin and so far found more silver coins total. I only found a 1943 P War Nickle. (35% silver)

Keep @ it and HH!!

 

[dave-enc]

congrats on your first silver coins, good job
hh
dave+bobbie

 

[Maggot]

sweet finds, my first and only silver was a merc too.

 

[kermit]

Great finds. I like the pictures nice job. Did you scan those in? I'm still waiting on a Merc to pop out of the ground into my pouch.


Kermit

 

[malice51]

Great finds. I like the pictures nice job. Did you scan those in? I'm still waiting on a Merc to pop out of the ground into my pouch.


Kermit

Thanks Kermit. Yes, I have an HP Photosmart all-in-one printer that has a scanner on it. I used Paint Shop Pro to export the scanned image to a reasonable file size for the forum.

I did some more investigating in the park this morning and found a memorial plaque that was dated 1929. I believe I've found my new hunting grounds.