1918 merc, 45-P war nickel, and 4 silver rosies today!

[whites6000inPa]

After striking out yesterday....my best find was a slag glass marble that I eyeballed on top of the ground....I decided to go hit the park again. I figured I'd probably end up with a bunch of clad again....but I was OK with that, so at 10:30 am I showed up at the park and hopped out of the PT and switched on the detector. It's been raining a lot so I figured maybe I'd find something I'd missed.

Was there for 3 hours and found 21 pennies....probably 5 or 6 are wheaties. As you can see the stuff's still dirty. There are 26 dimes....including the 5 silver ones. Also found 3 nickels and a piece of aluminum chain.

It was fun. The last silver dime I was to dig was the best from the park yet, a 1918 merc with full diagonal bands. It was found near the old concession at a depth of almost 7 inches.

Wyatt

 

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[Diggincoinz]

Re: 1918 merc and 4 silver rosies today!

Pretty good for a few hours of work, good day for silver dimes! Congrats!

 

[dave-enc]

Re: 1918 merc and 4 silver rosies today!

wtg on the silver
hh
dave+bobbie

 

[River Rat]

Re: 1918 merc and 4 silver rosies today!

Wyatt,

Awesome finds! Looking good.

RR

 

[Digginman]

Re: 1918 merc and 4 silver rosies today!

Very nice finds.

Congrats.

DM

 

[eric in ks]

Re: 1918 merc and 4 silver rosies today!

Nice haul of dimes. The merc looks good with the black color to it. WTG, Eric

 

[whites6000inPa]

Re: 1918 merc and 4 silver rosies today!

Thanks all...

I went back to the park for a couple more hours and mustered a 45 P war nickel, 6 clad dimes, 4 regular jefferson nickels, and 17 more pennies, of which 4 were wheaties. Had a good time today. I inreased the RF gain and lowered the discrimination to get these coins.

I'll post the war nickel after it's bath is over. It had some green stuff on it and is soaking. It'll be done in a little while.

Wyatt

 

[christophernixon]

Re: 1918 merc and 4 silver rosies today!

nice digs - congrats on the silver

 

[whites6000inPa]

Re: 1918 merc and 4 silver rosies today!

Here's the 45-P war nickel I dug this evening. It had some pretty good sized green stuff on it, and I soaked it in Tarn-X for about an hour.

Wyatt

 

[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

Re: 1918 merc and 4 silver rosies today!

W6000.

silver is always nice.

have a good un........

 

[Green1]

Re: 1918 merc and 4 silver rosies today!

now thats a lot of silver ,,,, keep em coming !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Spitfire Reddie]

Happy Silver Sunday !

 

[Postalrevnant]

Great silver haul.

Congratulations,

Postalrevnant

 

[Rusted_Iron]

Quite a silver haul, 6000. These kind of days make up for all the empty-handed ones!

So the deeper silver dropped out when you turned up the disc to where you normally would?

That's probably why I wasn't that good with my old White's. I just didn't know my machine that well. I still have it, too. All these things I've only started to learn this 2nd time around with newer machines.

 

[jopher]

Excellent digs Wyatt....congrats .....Joe

 

[whites6000inPa]

I didn't try to increase the discrimination to see if the coins would "disappear" from radar. I know some folks use that technique.....but I don't. If I get a repeatable and stable VDI reading...I dig it. By increasing the gain (signal balance) slightly, and running the disc at 3 instead of 5, I did get a couple false signals...and the VDI was a bit squirrely, twice telling me that the detached wide end of a pulltab at 6 inches was a quarter....but overall, most of the holes I dug produced coins. I also dug some deep foil and foilized plastic...including an old "trojan" condom wrapper... at about 5 inches.

Wyatt

 

[daytondigger]

Beuatius maximus.......I thing that would be the latin for your finds. Once again folks, we have proof that those old parks are not hunted out. I try to put most of my efforts into seeking permission at older homes, but parks will do the trick too.

 

[whites6000inPa]

This park's produced a good bit of silver for me this year. It's getting tougher now, but I've now removed around 60 silver coins (and an 18kt gold band) from this place since July. I like hunting private residences also, but have not been doing too much of that since the park's still coughing up the goods.

Wyatt