p2c
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- Apr 14, 2009
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Hi all,
Last year I found an insane number of V-nickels (22). This year, my count was way down (3), until my last two hunts in which I doubled that number to 6. Last week 8/24, I went back to my nearby super oldie spot. It is a place which was supposedly 'hunted out' by old timers and then several group hunts. Last year I hit it and between Indian heads, V-nickels, Barber dimes and quarters, a shield nickel, and a seated, I probably pulled out close to 60 coins. This year, it is so thin, you can go and spend 5 hours and not even find a signal you'd try to dig. The allure of 1800's coins pulls me back to this place, and last week I got lucky and pulled a coin. My oldest V-nickel to date (1884) -- can only get 1 older.
Yesterday (8/29), I went to an entirely different but thin location. I started out pulling a buffalo nickel (1925). Along the way, I pulled 3 wheats (40-d, 45, 46). Then I hit the perfect sounding quarter signal. Was I to find my first silver quarter on the year (last year I was already up to 6 on my way to 8)? I dug so sure I had hit it, would it be a Barber or a Washington, or my first ever SLQ? No, it was some religious pendent that had lost its guilding
Silver starved I wandered far and wide. I went way out from the former hotspots. I got an IH sounding signal, but it ended up being a real old pin with glass stones. Then I climbed steepest of hilsides hoping for some sledding or erosion spill. I was really silver weary. Finally! A silvery sound under my coil. On the surface of the gray eroding hillside, was a silver dime covered in gray stuff ... what would it be? A Rosie (46-D) that obviously had been pounded by years of water and dirt running over it. Still silver, finally! On my way back I passed through a somewhat expansive area that I had only given a little time at in the past. And there I ran across a 2 V- nickel pocket spill (1903, 1905) -- they don't call me the V-nickler for nothing. Anyway, that area where the spill was is on my list. A lot of hiking to get to it though...
Sorry about the cruddiness of the cents, I am waiting to tumble in bulk:
and my calling card:
HH All!
-Jon
Last year I found an insane number of V-nickels (22). This year, my count was way down (3), until my last two hunts in which I doubled that number to 6. Last week 8/24, I went back to my nearby super oldie spot. It is a place which was supposedly 'hunted out' by old timers and then several group hunts. Last year I hit it and between Indian heads, V-nickels, Barber dimes and quarters, a shield nickel, and a seated, I probably pulled out close to 60 coins. This year, it is so thin, you can go and spend 5 hours and not even find a signal you'd try to dig. The allure of 1800's coins pulls me back to this place, and last week I got lucky and pulled a coin. My oldest V-nickel to date (1884) -- can only get 1 older.
Yesterday (8/29), I went to an entirely different but thin location. I started out pulling a buffalo nickel (1925). Along the way, I pulled 3 wheats (40-d, 45, 46). Then I hit the perfect sounding quarter signal. Was I to find my first silver quarter on the year (last year I was already up to 6 on my way to 8)? I dug so sure I had hit it, would it be a Barber or a Washington, or my first ever SLQ? No, it was some religious pendent that had lost its guilding
Silver starved I wandered far and wide. I went way out from the former hotspots. I got an IH sounding signal, but it ended up being a real old pin with glass stones. Then I climbed steepest of hilsides hoping for some sledding or erosion spill. I was really silver weary. Finally! A silvery sound under my coil. On the surface of the gray eroding hillside, was a silver dime covered in gray stuff ... what would it be? A Rosie (46-D) that obviously had been pounded by years of water and dirt running over it. Still silver, finally! On my way back I passed through a somewhat expansive area that I had only given a little time at in the past. And there I ran across a 2 V- nickel pocket spill (1903, 1905) -- they don't call me the V-nickler for nothing. Anyway, that area where the spill was is on my list. A lot of hiking to get to it though...Sorry about the cruddiness of the cents, I am waiting to tumble in bulk:
and my calling card:
HH All!
-Jon
