10 Silver, 34 Wheats ~ Small Gold ~ Sterling Charms ~ 43 For 43!!

[Captn SE]

Hello, my Friends!!

Yesterday, I reached a milestone of 300+ silver coin finds for '08, and was very satisfied to achieve this at the "silver park". Without the silver park this year, I don't think this accomplishment would have been possible. The park has produced 177 silver coins this year for me, and I did not get skunked for silver once at the park this year in almost 70 hunts. I decided yesterday after finding 4 silver dimes, and 8 wheats, to finally give the park a break from future hunts. I will be giving some of my other parks that produced silver for me last year a try for the remainder of the year. There will never be another park in S. CA like the "silver park".

The first pic is from the last 3-4 hunts from the "silver park". The two sterling crosses were found on the same day, within 50 ft from each other, both around 7" deep. The blue hotrod tootsie toy was also found on the same day. The piece of gold chain was an "eye" find, laying right on top of a flattened gopher mound. The marbles were found in some of the plugs I dug. Hey, you can actually see me taking a pic of my finds in the reddish colored marble....Cool!!

The second pic is a closeup of the sterling crosses and my gold chain find.
I was requested by a few of you to post some of my other non-old coin finds that I typically make while searching for the older coins. The third pic are my clad finds for about 4 hunts. I don't dig any shallow clad, except for quarter signals. The dimes/pennies posted were all 4-8" recoveries.
The last pic is my trash, per request. This is a typical amount for about 4 individual hunts in the turf. A good amount of this trash was dug up to help better identify a deeper coin signal, or it just happened to be in my plug mixed in with my coin target.

I'm very satisfied with my old coin finds this year in my local hunt sites. I really didn't think I was going to find as much as I did, considering last year's quantity of old coin finds that I made.

Thanks for looking!!
Keep The Passion High!

CAPTN SE
Dan

 

[Captn SE]

Nice finds cap't. This self portrait is for you......NGE (T)

Thanks, NGE(T)!! I blew the marble up larger on my PC.

whatcha want for the handcuff key i collect handcuff keys.

Olepossum, I decided to keep the handcuff key. That's my first one I've ever found.

Congrats on 300+ silver for the year and 43rd in a row Capt_SE Great haul on this hunt once again, continued success to you.
Glenn

Thanks, Glenn! Good luck to you too!!

WTG Dan!
Great Digs!

I'm still looking for my "Silver Park"!

Sure wish we could hunt year round in Northern Michigan!

Best of Luck!

Mark

Thanks, Mark! Just think of all the "silver parks" there used to be in the 60's!! N. Michigan in the winter? Brrrrrrrrrr!!

Man Dan I need a park like that. Very Nice. I don't have 300 silvers in 5 years

Brian

Thanks, Brian. Many md'ers have given up on this park because of all the trash in the ground, in addition to electrical interference. I was able to pick through all that trash with my Explorer. You've got to be very patient while listening to a constant level of noise in your headphones.

As usual Cap you give us Minelab users something to shoot for! Love those crosses and I found that same exact tootsie, cept mine was in 2 pieces, a few weeks ago!!!

I need that hand cuff key!

Thanks Larry!! I decided to keep the handcuff key. I took it out of my trash and stuck it into my relic collection. Good luck out there!!

Great day for you my man. I really like the toy car. And the religious stuff. Keep er comin.
Chris

Thanks, Chris! Continued success with the Colonial Coinage and Artifacts!!

way to go on all of that silver, clad and other cool finds..

Thanks, Allen! Good luck to you!!

Well Captn...I think the silver park will be there when you go back...Those silvers can run but they just can't hide from your talent. Nice digs this year buddy...Hey, it ain't over yet is it? Rainy, cold here in the midwest but still might get out again before the blizzards come...Like you say, Keep the Passion High Buddy.... jgas

Thanks, jgas!! You're right. I have very little threat of someone digging up those silvers in that park. If someone can find them there, more power to them. A lot of the silver at this park is actually beyond the reach of anyone. Whenever a deeper machine is made, I will be going back to this park with it. I commend you for your passion while hunting in the cold, rainy weather!! Most would think you're crazy...but not us T'Netters!

CAPTN SE, your are my hero... I can only dream of finding the wilver like you do... I'm thinkin about gettin one of those bad-to-the-bone detectors you are using...

HH Robert

Thanks, Robert! The Explorer is a great machine. The more you use it, the better you will get.

Awesome finds Dan! WTG!

Thanks, Spector!! Good luck out there!!

nice job on the silver!!!! The two sterling crosses look really cool!

Thanks, DF!! Yeah, I like the sterling crosses too!!

HOLY CRAP!

Those are beautiful coins and crosses! LOVE the crosses. You always clean up the park Captn!

Crackbadger

Thanks for your reply, Crack!! I hope you're finding a lot of jewelry(gold and silver and platinum). Good luck with your SE. Let me know how you're doing with it from time to time.

Those sure are some great finds.

Thanks, Kevin. Appreciate your response!

Awesome silver haul.

Thanks, TopDog!! Good luck to you out there.

WTG captn ! your on a roll and a great roll at that congrats

Thanks, Weasel!! I hope you're liking your new Pro Coil. I haven't taken mine off since I purchased it.

Dan,
Nice silver. Pictures are perfect. Nate and I have found some of those Catholic medals.

Looks pretty crazy on your Quarter count. That's how you can tell an area hasn't been hit that hard. I'm not sure about out there in CA but here in Ohio it takes at least 5 years to build up any kind of decent Quarter population. I love going to a new site and finding more than a half dozen Quarters in an hour.

Bob

Thanks, Bob! Yeah, I've got a few more of those same religious medals myself. The quarters you saw in the pic are from 4 different hunts. Yes, they were all from the same park. This park is a clad hunter's dream!! Lots and lots of clad everywhere. I wish 30-40 clad hunters would come to this park and clean the first 4-5" out. Last year, I found over 2500 quarters, so this is not the only park that will produce like this over here. Los Angeles residents love their parks.....they also lose a lot of change! But, that's not what I'm looking for out there. Good luck to you and Nate!!

Only 13 more to tie DiMaggio! Nothing like a silver site you know you can go to and come home with a prize! That Tootsie car must have been made like the 44 wheats: over a billion!

Thanks, Henry! Yep, nothing like having a good "silver site". I got 1 Rosie yesterday at a different park....this park has been hit very, very hard. I was very glad to get that Rosie, and to increase my streak to 44. 12 more to get to DiMaggio!!

Hi Dan!

WOW ~ congrat's on hitting the 300 silver coin mark ~ that's AWESOME!!! That's some serious treasure!

I'm still stuck at 95 silver coins! I went detecting with Ron last weekend ~ he dug three silver dimes and I only dug a couple Indian Head cents (1902 & 1892).

Thanks, Neil!! I'm sure you will get to 100....I hope there's not too much flooding going on in your vicinity. It looks bad on TV. Stay safe!!

Congrats on reaching the 300 silver mark Dan! you sure know how to get them deepies!!

Thanks, Goio!! I'm sure you're still knocking them dead in your area too!! Keep it going!!

Thanks again, everyone, for your replies!!
Keep The Passion High!

HH,
CAPTN SE
Dan

 

[Dr. Ace]

Dan,

Congrats, as usual on some great finds! The write up and pictures were great. It's nice to see what you typically find on a hunt.

I hope Santa is nice to me this year and gives me an SE for Christmas! I want to find old stuff just like you. We have a lot of parks here in my hometown that seem to have been hunted pretty hard, but I'm sure there is more underneath - I just can't get it with my Ace.

Hunting season is almost past here in Iowa. It will soon be time to put the detector away for the year.

Keep up the good work, Dan. I hope your silver streak lasts for a long, long time.

HH,

Dr. Ace