100th silver from Local Fairground....

Corinth1812 · Nov 17, 2011

I started hunting this fairgrounds about 4 years ago, and it has been a very very sucessfull place to hunt. After 4 years of hunting there i pulled silver #100 from that location, and i never thought there was that many silver coins there. I found 21 with my DFX and the last 79 with the E-trac. The first was a 1914-d barber dime, and the last was a 1920 p mercury dime. I found my first Seated Dime there and my first Standing Liberty Quarter. Ive never dug a Halve, although i seen one dug, (thanks to waseeker) he dug an 1899 barber half there a few years ago. The last month or so I would spend a couple of hours a week digging anything that was descent, and finally i pulled a 1920 P mercury dime and did my little happy dance. Here is the pic and some pics of a few others ive dug there the last 4 years.

The tallies are 100 silver coins, over 4 years, (2) Seated Dimes, (14) Barber Dimes, (1) Barber Quarter, (1) SLQ, (4) Washington Quarters, (49) Mercury Dimes (27) Roosevelt Dimes and (2) War Nickels......

franking · Nov 17, 2011

That is so awesome to find 100 silver in 4 years... Congrats! I have a local fair grounds which dates back to the 1800's but I dont think I can hunt there. How did you get permission? If I could only do the fairgrounds here I would be in coin heaven. Happy Hunting... oh how could you not be happy with those finds under your belt.

Corinth1812 · Nov 17, 2011

franking said:
That is so awesome to find 100 silver in 4 years... Congrats! I have a local fair grounds which dates back to the 1800's but I dont think I can hunt there. How did you get permission? If I could only do the fairgrounds here I would be in coin heaven. Happy Hunting... oh how could you not be happy with those finds under your belt.

Its county property so its fair game to hunt for everyone. My uncle hunted there in the late 1960's, or early 1970's been hit hard, most signals were iffy, and sometimes i was suprised to find a silver when i dug it.