kimsdad
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- Apr 17, 2008
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I've been tracking my swinging hours since Jan 1st just to satisfy my curiosity. Until today, it was 45 hours of hard swinging and no silver. Today, Watercolor, DP Bob & I headed out to a house slated for teardown. The yard was loaded with old rusty nails - a real nightmare to me with the SE....
After a while, I started hunting inside a privacy fence that parallels the old public sidewalk. After digging some junk, I got a good signal near the fence where the ground was still frozen. Had to chop through the first three inches to get a hole started. It pinpointed with the probe with a still promising signal.
I couldn't believe it when I looked in the hole and saw the shiny glint of silver! I pulled it out and saw that it was a 1908 O Barber half - my very first Barber half and my first silver of the year. 
Sorry, I did manage to scratch it on the back. Oh well - not a key date - whew.
I rescanned the area and got another signal a foot away. This one rang up big, too. The ground there was a little more workable. I cut a plug and pulled a 1912 D Barber dime!
Watercolor found an Indian. After the house, we went to the woods and met up with Treasurefiend, Twistidd, and Mikewaz. Twistidd had found a great pocket spill that also included a Barber half! Treasurefiend found a silver George, and DP Bob found a Merc on the way home. Some of these finds might wind up in the Illinois forum, along with Treasurefiend's video of Twistidd's huge pocket spill. Thanks for checking out my finds! It was a great day to get out with fellow T-Netters!!
After a while, I started hunting inside a privacy fence that parallels the old public sidewalk. After digging some junk, I got a good signal near the fence where the ground was still frozen. Had to chop through the first three inches to get a hole started. It pinpointed with the probe with a still promising signal.
I couldn't believe it when I looked in the hole and saw the shiny glint of silver! I pulled it out and saw that it was a 1908 O Barber half - my very first Barber half and my first silver of the year. Sorry, I did manage to scratch it on the back. Oh well - not a key date - whew.
I rescanned the area and got another signal a foot away. This one rang up big, too. The ground there was a little more workable. I cut a plug and pulled a 1912 D Barber dime!
Watercolor found an Indian. After the house, we went to the woods and met up with Treasurefiend, Twistidd, and Mikewaz. Twistidd had found a great pocket spill that also included a Barber half! Treasurefiend found a silver George, and DP Bob found a Merc on the way home. Some of these finds might wind up in the Illinois forum, along with Treasurefiend's video of Twistidd's huge pocket spill. Thanks for checking out my finds! It was a great day to get out with fellow T-Netters!!
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