School grounds silver

[dfxdude]

There is a grassy area in the FB Field End Zone extended past the running track on one end of a local small town (pop. 500) football field. Kids have played pickup games there going back to at least the 50's, maybe earlier. I had detected this area 2 years ago, but we had a drought then and ground was super dry and I was using canned/stock program on my DFX at the time. Only found a couple of wheaties and some clad then. Went over it last week with a custom program which got me 2" or more of depth and came up with my first Walking Liberty half (1943), a 1944 Washington quarter, a 1918 Merc.(my oldest Merc) and 5 Silver Roosies. Also got 7 wheaties between 1935 - 1946(not pictured). The Walker is in nice condition. The Merc. is worn and had to use a magnifier to read the 8 on 1918. The quarter has a lot of wear, but all the Roosies are in nice shape. The Walker was at 6" and the rest were all at 4 1/2" to 6 1/2", except the 1918 Merc. which was only a couple of inches down. LOVE THAT SILVER ! ! ! ! The 1943 Walking Liberty really sang (I was using Tone ID) and VDI= 90.

 

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[Neptunus Rex]

Be sure to go again after recent rains. The "halo" effect will produce yet again. GREAT FINDS

 

[outtachaos]

Love those!!!! Keep it up!

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Holly Crap!! That's the best dug silver haul I have looked at on this forum...I Think! It would have been so cool to live back when most all coins used silver.

WTG, Keep at it and HH!!

 

[Colorado2]

Man Dude...I didn't think there was a school left in America with that much silver laying around. Beautiful finds, congratulations~CO2

 

[renegade_7]

Very nice finds. Great to find silver especially in those quantities. WTG

 

[slow sweeper]

What a score! Had a smile on your face the whole way home I'd bet.

 

[groundfisher]

Nice haul of silver.Your return trip to that feild really paid off.
That walking liberty sure is a beautiful peice.Congrats on your first .

HH!

 

[lonewolfe]

Nice coins,

hh

lonewolfe

 

[Diggincoinz]

Yeah! Love that Silver! WTG, nice digs!

 

[Mona Lisa]

Wow, dude, that was a rewarding hunt. Congratulations.

 

[Getty]

Great job!! The rosies still have detail of hair,good coins.WTG!!

 

[dfxdude]

Yes, I just started 4th year detecting in May and had 10,000 coins to date, but this haul of 8 silvers and 7 wheaties for 4 hours work almost doubled my silver output for the first 3 years. I had never gotten more than 2 silvers in a single day before (2 times). I went back there today and scanned the area at right angles to how I scanned it before. Did about half of the area and came up with just 15 clad(post 1964). We havent had any noticeable rain there for about 3 weeks, and the grass is almost brown and ground is like course sugar. Will want to hit it again when we get a good soaking for better ground continuity.

 

[Floater]

Great Digs Dude. That Programing must really work I don't understand it since I'm a Minelab kinda guy but congrats for figuring it out and making it work. Those are spectacular finds in my book. HH

 

[bigrig40]

excellent finds!very cool.wtg

peace,bigrig

 

[mgdigger]

nice!

 

[Huntin' 59er]

Congrats on all that silver ! Looks like you found a great place to hunt !

Huntin' 59er

 

[Monty]

That's the exact same area of the football field I have been hunting the past few times out. So far I've only found a close but no cigar 1965 quarter. I went back out there his morning and found some clad and a 1953D wheat cent. Still no silver. I am running my GTI 2500 with the depth custom set at anything below 3". Found the quarter at 8" and the wheat cent at between 4 and 5 inches. I've just about run out of signals to dig. The area was once gravel and I think they scooped a lot of it out and filled in with dirt and sod. One find was 2" down in the gravel and the other right at the gravel line. JIM

 

[Born2Dtect]

S-I-L-V-E-R! Great work. That would definitely put a grin on my face.

Ed