20th silver dime from the cliff

[SMS88]

I went back out to the cliff where i found two seated dimes last time and managed to get an 1892 barber dime after three cold hours of searching. It was about 33 and there was a snow shower near the end of the hunt. The dime was 7 inches deep in a hole that I started to dig but gave up in the last hunt. It gave off a typical hotrock signal, mostly iron tones with the repeatable pop to 95. I dug and found water, but I kept grabbing the dirt out with my hand and pulled out the dime. It got a few surface scrapes from the slate filled dirt, but it was worth digging up and nearly freezing my hand from the cold. It's the second 1892 and 13th barber and 20th pre mercury dime from the site, evening the penny dime ratio to 1:1

 

[SMS88]

Hey 88... nice going

Finding a site that keeps producing old coins is really special. Glad that you have one to pull out barbers, large cents, IH, seat liberties, etc.

What about V nickels... any luck on the site finding those?

Way to hang in there in the inclement weather.

HH

Sanat

I haven't found any large cents there, but I've found 4 V nickels:1890, 1899, 1903, and 1906. I also found an 1892 barber quarter in the same condition as the dime minus the scratches. There were even 2 worn Victorian canadian dimes.It is amazing at how I found the spot. I did have a map of the broad area, but nothing mentioning that spot. I somehow walked up a hill in the woods and found a single 1900 indian head that was very shallow. On return trips, I found more indians and noticed a lot of clam shells and glass. While this isnt unusual for a culinary school, we love to get drunk and eat and cook, some of the glass looked like it was way before the CIA days. I soon found silver and as I hit the outlying areas, I found even more. It is a risky spot to search because the president of the college lives at the edge of the woods. Campus safety is fine with me searching, but I still have to be careful. Thanks to everyone who has been following me on the message boards in my search.

 

[Arkie John]

You must found an old "lover's leap" of the past.

You may have a good time there for many hunts to come. Keep us all posted.

Old silver is a great reward for the diligent hunter.

aj

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

being new to the dfx, you said you had a hot rock signal, what made you decide to dig that.as I am curious since I get hot rock signals and bypass them, should I raise the coil to see if its still a hot rock signal?

If it's deep and has a consistent high tone, dig it. It won't be a coin 100% of the time, but it could be. The DFX has a hard time discriminating past 6", so you just have to use pinpoint mode as well, look for the deepest signals, and dig them up.

That is great advice! Thanks for the tips!