FINALLY- First Silver for 2015, and its a BIG Silver

schwabie16

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FINALLY- First Silver for 2015, and it's a BIG Silver

Finally got out with one of my friends to a new permission. Only about 15 minutes into the hunt at this older farm house in the country, I got a sweet 90-91 signal at the edge of the yard. The signal was so sweet, I knew it couldn't have been anything other than a half dollar. They have such a distinct, sweet sound, a sound that every detectorist, like myself loves to hear. I only had one problem though, the ground was almost completely frozen in the spot where I was (because winter doesn't want to leave PA). It took me probably 15 minutes to get down to it, and finally with a final thrust of my shovel, a flash of silver popped right out of the hole. It was a 1944 Walking Liberty Half in great condition. What a way to start off the detecting season!!! ImageUploadedByTreasureNet.com1427685860.297175.jpg ImageUploadedByTreasureNet.com1427685887.464847.jpg ImageUploadedByTreasureNet.com1427685898.382680.jpg
 

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Metal Illness

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Hell of a way to kick off your 2015 Silver finds!!! Big Silver Congrats! She's a beauty, I have only found two and you're right about that super sweet tone and the ID numbers on the E-Trac are a give-away.
 

jewelerguy

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absolutely beautiful. congrats
 

JackalopeZL1

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Nice!! there have been a lot of walkers found lately??? Glad I am one of them too!!! Congrats!!
 

Gridwalker306

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Great looking half there! I can relate to the frozen digging, man it's aggravating. Good thing you stuck with it and dug that baby up!
 

deershed

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Wow, Sweet!!

Everyone is finding big silver... except me. Lol I got a 91-92 hit the other day and thought "my turn", not. Mine was a 48 Washington.

Congrats man!!
 

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Super chunk of Silver!
 

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The walker is by far my favorite coin design. I love everything about it! Well done!! Great score!
 

cjon455

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all that hard work jackhammering through the frozen tundra paid off!, great half!!
 

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Nice silver. The big ones feel real nice in the hand
 

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That looks to be in really nice shape! Congratulations! Nice frozen ground you had to dig in, funny my first hunt in January of this year came across a similar situation, great sounding signal, tried to dig but ground was frozen. Worked on it for quite awhile and came up with a silver Washington quarter.
 

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schwabie16

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Hell of a way to kick off your 2015 Silver finds!!! Big Silver Congrats! She's a beauty, I have only found two and you're right about that super sweet tone and the ID numbers on the E-Trac are a give-away.

Thanks I know!
 

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schwabie16

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Wow, Sweet!!

Everyone is finding big silver... except me. Lol I got a 91-92 hit the other day and thought "my turn", not. Mine was a 48 Washington.

Congrats man!!

Hey, silver is silver though! GL and HH
 

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schwabie16

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That looks to be in really nice shape! Congratulations! Nice frozen ground you had to dig in, funny my first hunt in January of this year came across a similar situation, great sounding signal, tried to dig but ground was frozen. Worked on it for quite awhile and came up with a silver Washington quarter.

Yep. We're getting into 68 degrees this Thursday, so this icy ground won't last much longer! GL and HH
 

DirtStalker

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Beautiful find. Well worth the frozen dig.
 

CoinandRelicMan

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Nice find, they are so scarce out here, I have no idea what one would sound like !
 

Carolina Tom

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Congrats on a really nice looking Walker. We are making warm weather down here in the South, and sending it up that way! GL&HH.
 

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