8 more silvers, and a silver first for me from the new site WOOHOO!!

time4me · May 20, 2009

I went back out to my newest site yesterday for 4 hours. This is the site that produced 17 silvers last Tuesday.

I'm still covering the same small grassy areas that I've already covered, as there are still so many detections. I started off finding a few wheat cents again, and thought I had another wheat cent as my E-Trac was giving me a 43/44 on the conductivity reading. Most of the wheaties I've been finding there are in the 43/44 range, sometimes even bouncing to 45 and fooling me. So I proceeded to dig, and about 4 inches down, out pops a gray disk with a familiar image of a lady standing in the middle of it

Holy Cow!!! Rechecking the hole gave me another solid signal which turned out to be a wheat cent. Maybe the reason why I didn't get a strong silver signal from the quarter - must have been mixed with the wheatie. My first ever standing liberty quarter in over 30 years of detecting!!!! Too bad it is so worn that I can't read any date, but still a huge goal of mine now met!

I could have found pull tabs the rest of the day and I would have left a happy man. But only a few pulltabs came from the ground this day. The rest of the hunt was terrific, with merc, rosies, buffalo nickels, war nickels, 47 wheat cents, and a very cool play coin. I gotta tell you, I'm tired of digging wheat cents :-[

There are so many there that I don't even take time to try reading the dates on them until after I get home. I just toss them into the find bag as fast as they pop out of the ground.

Here is the whole shooting match:

And here is the goodies pile:

Goodies cleaned up:

The buffalo nickels came from the same hole. One is a 1919 and the other is a 1920:

And here is that neat play coin - does anyone know how old this might be? I'm guessing 50's or 60's:

Thanks for looking, and have a great hunt next time you're out!!!

Jim

Narthoniel · May 23, 2009

Wow, a very impressive hunt! I see you are swinging an Etrac too, so ill let you in on something I have figured out. When a coin, like your SLQ, is heavily worn, the reading will be inaccurate for it. So it is possible that it was reading 44 conductivity for it instead of 47 like quarters read for me. I have found a few large cents and they typically come in at 47 as well. But now and then I get a flat smooth coppr disk that comes in at 44, 41, and last week one came in at 37. Also, since the date is gone, you can assume it is 1924 or older. Those were notorious for the date wearing off since that was the highest point on the coin. And im with you on the wheat pennies. I have a pile of them ive never even checked the dates on. Who needs wheats when there is SILVER...

Again, outstanding finds, way to go!
Anthony