11 Silver including 4 coin pocket dump, Early Copper, IH & more

[doninbrewster]

Went out for a number of short hunts during the week. First time was with my XLT as the CTX was out for repair. CTX came back the second day and went to the same spot and found 4 silver dimes, 3 or which were in a small area I hunted the day before with the XLT. While hunting the same spot with the CTX I also found a lot more wheats. All these finds came from 2 yards I had permission to hunt. The pocket dump of 2 Washingtons, a Merc, Roosevelt and 2 NYC subway tokens came from the yard of a home built c.1750 and I was told had been metal detected before a couple of times. The SLQ also came from the same yard. I was a bit surprised I wasn't hitting the older stuff. I'm hoping to get back before things freeze solid. BTW, the copper is toasted and I haven't been able to figure out what it is yet, but it's not an LC. The nickel is a part silver war nickel. I spent about 10-12 hours detecting total and any time I can average a piece of silver an hour I'm a happy camper.

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[Msbeepbeep]

Nice silver haul! Looks like your CTX is the super sleuth when it comes to finding more!
Congrats! The large coin is still a mystery.

 

[hamiddetecting]

Very nice finds, congratulations!!

 

[Showtime2385]

Nice silver. looks like you got a couple of Santa's bells too!

 

[jewelerguy]

sweet silvers!

 

[pong12211]

Very nice finds.. Congrats on the nice silver score..

 

[wildcarrot]

Great hunt... nice finds and background story...

 

[1235CE]

Very nice finds, congrats!.......although I'm a little baffled about the CTX vs. XLT comparison......there's not an XLT on Earth that would ever be missing those Roosies, Mercs and Wheats......

HH all!
Greg

 

[doninbrewster]

Greg, what I think the issue was is that because of really thick, tall, uncut grass I couldn't get the loop as close to the ground as I normally would have. The XLT is a great machine and normally wouldn't miss these things, but the CTX will go deeper and sometimes that's what you need.

 

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[Mach1Pilot]

Very nice score on the silver and the large copper!