DUG = Silver ring ~ 11 wheats cents. NOT DUG = 99 gram Silver necklace!!

oddcoins

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I met up with Ron yesterday morning to go detecting in Corvallis Oregon. Ron had a much better day than me, but I had lots of fun none-the-less! As you may have seen Ron's post yesterday, he dug two silver quarters, a silver dime, several wheats cents, and lots of clad. Here's what I dug:

5.5 gram silver ring (marked 925)
1924-S Wheat cent
10 other wheat cents ~ dating from 1919 to 1958
4 clad quarters
14 clad dimes
55 memorial cents
zero modern nickels!

NOT DUG ~ Here's the story on the big silver necklace I found! I work for a property management company. They own a old house that was built in 1904. I've been there detecting several times over the last 12 years that I've worked here ~ and I've dug lots of silver, Indian cents, and wheats there. Now they are planning on demolishing this old house to build more apartments (Boo . . . BOO!!!) ~ oh well, not my decision. Anyway, the house and garage are empty right now, so was checking out the place. I went into the garage, and just like any other garage it's very dusty & dirty ~ in the corner by the wall on the floor I saw what looked like just a chain of some sort ~ maybe a dog's collar. So I pulled it out of all the dirt, dust, and cobwebs. It's a silver 18" chain necklace marked 925!! I took it to Ron and he weighed it for me ~ 99 grams!! That's over 3 ounces of 92.5% silver!! SCORE!!! Check out the picture I posted of it ~ I put a US dime next to it so you can see the size of this thing ~ it's a monster!

Thanks for looking!
Neil

8^)
 

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RONC(OR)

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Neil that is one honker of a necklace :icon_pirat: it was fun hunting with you congrats nice finds HHR :thumbsup:
 

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That IS some serious bling!
 

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oddcoins

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Twin Digger said:
Nice Ring.. what did the chain come in at?
Happy Hunting

Twin Digger

The chain wasn't dug ~ I "eye balled" it!!
 

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"I pitty the fool who went in my garage"......
 

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Congratulations on a fine silver ring and a great
"eye-ball" score with the silver chain :thumbsup:
Don't quite know how you do it, but you always
manage to come up with some excellent finds.... WTG!!
We didn't get too wet today at least.... next weekend?
Gold Nuggets :icon_jokercolor:
 

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gold nuggets said:
Congratulations on a fine silver ring and a great
"eye-ball" score with the silver chain :thumbsup:
Don't quite know how you do it, but you always
manage to come up with some excellent finds.... WTG!!
We didn't get too wet today at least.... next weekend?
Gold Nuggets :icon_jokercolor:

Thanks man!

Yeah, it wasn't nearly as wet out there today as I thought it was going to be! We had fun!

Not sure of next weekend's plans yet ~ Hopefully we can get out there to do some detecting!

8^)
 

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Nice Job Neil. I really like that necklace. Looks like you had a good day digging too. :icon_pirat:
 

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"wow" snoopin around always pays off when they dig it up there will be more treasures to find that are hiding deep just might have to kick the constuction crew off site while you do a complete site survey. we still have a foot of snow so this weekend me and shane went skiing my detecter sits by my work desk with fresh batteries waiting urgg have a good week keep postin Kippero
 

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That's quite a nice eyeball find, the rest ain't bad either, Congratulations!
 

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Pretty good for a guy from the "wet side" of the State.....
If you don't have enough to do there, try researching some of the old lumber camps, where the cutters went into the woods and lived in tents for months on end. My Dad was one of them, lived up the Grande Ronde, outside of LaGrande. Haven't done any of that, because I am living in S. Korea. Probably some have done some, but should be some camps that have not been hunted.
Let me know if and when you do go, and what you find. :thumbsup:
 

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Hey Neil.

Boy, the silver coinage is sure getting stingy for you lately! ;D ;D Ron seems to be finding them all.

Congrats on your Big silver bling eyeball find!! :thumbsup:

HH,

CAPTN SE
Dan
 

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oddcoins

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Captn_SE said:
Hey Neil.

Boy, the silver coinage is sure getting stingy for you lately! ;D ;D Ron seems to be finding them all.

Congrats on your Big silver bling eyeball find!! :thumbsup:

HH,

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Dan

Thanks Dan!

Yeah Ron sure is a silver magnet lately! He digs three to ever one I dig!

Ron is killer with that e-trac!

8^)
 

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