DigToChina
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I had a very productive weekend at my park. I went out for a late night hunt Friday night. I was rewarded with two silver dimes for my efforts. I donāt have any special stories with them. The first dime was the 1943. The second was the 1954 dime but the face has a ton of damage. Pretty sure I didnāt cause that based on the dirt in the grooves (and they all go one direction). Silver #13 & 14 for this park. The only other coin of note was a wheatie.
On Sunday I was up at the crack of dawn to come back and managed about a 150 foot line. One of my early finds was a bent up earring that I couldnāt tell if it was junk or not. Turns out it has the 925 stamp. I also found a silver bracelet with 925 markings although the little crotals on it are not.
My next decent find and face-palm #1 [emoji2359] was a 1951 quarter (silver 15 here). I had a feeling this was a silver based on the VDI but managed to smash Georgeās forehead with my Lesche.
Digging a 45 signal with a slight grunt of iron always makes me think itās going to be canslaw and this brings us to face-palm #2 [emoji2359]. I was completely surprised when this ā43 quarter popped out (silver 16). On a VDI of 45 though? I guess the honking big nail screwed up the VDI. Why a face-palm? Because I was sloppy and smashed the back with my knife...
This next find was the exact opposite. I had a VDI of 70 something and figured it was going to be a silver. When I dug it, it was swung around itās axis so that it looked like [emoji822]. Based on the colour and VDI I guessed it might be silver but was probably junk... after cleaning I was able to find the 10K stamp [emoji2956]
Youād think this next find is my face-palm #3 but itās just a funny find. I happened to be looking at the bottom of my Lesche where I have magnets stuck (catches iron and field tests silver) and found a dime stuck there. I didnāt put it there so now Iām wondering if I dug a hole and drove myself nuts with the occasional mysterious disappearing signal didnāt actually have a dime that stuck to me.
That brings me to face-palm #3 [emoji2359]. I think the VDI was around 66 and jumpy so Iām thinking foil cup? I dug and out pops this silver dime from 1962(silver 17 here) with other junk in the hole. Twice as sloppy because I smashed it twice.
I clearly need to work on technique because 3/3 silver smashed is not a good track record for the day. HH
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On Sunday I was up at the crack of dawn to come back and managed about a 150 foot line. One of my early finds was a bent up earring that I couldnāt tell if it was junk or not. Turns out it has the 925 stamp. I also found a silver bracelet with 925 markings although the little crotals on it are not.
My next decent find and face-palm #1 [emoji2359] was a 1951 quarter (silver 15 here). I had a feeling this was a silver based on the VDI but managed to smash Georgeās forehead with my Lesche.
Digging a 45 signal with a slight grunt of iron always makes me think itās going to be canslaw and this brings us to face-palm #2 [emoji2359]. I was completely surprised when this ā43 quarter popped out (silver 16). On a VDI of 45 though? I guess the honking big nail screwed up the VDI. Why a face-palm? Because I was sloppy and smashed the back with my knife...
This next find was the exact opposite. I had a VDI of 70 something and figured it was going to be a silver. When I dug it, it was swung around itās axis so that it looked like [emoji822]. Based on the colour and VDI I guessed it might be silver but was probably junk... after cleaning I was able to find the 10K stamp [emoji2956]
Youād think this next find is my face-palm #3 but itās just a funny find. I happened to be looking at the bottom of my Lesche where I have magnets stuck (catches iron and field tests silver) and found a dime stuck there. I didnāt put it there so now Iām wondering if I dug a hole and drove myself nuts with the occasional mysterious disappearing signal didnāt actually have a dime that stuck to me.
That brings me to face-palm #3 [emoji2359]. I think the VDI was around 66 and jumpy so Iām thinking foil cup? I dug and out pops this silver dime from 1962(silver 17 here) with other junk in the hole. Twice as sloppy because I smashed it twice.
I clearly need to work on technique because 3/3 silver smashed is not a good track record for the day. HH
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