A silver kinda weekend

[Ray in CA]

Got out for two separate hunts, each about 2 hours, and came away with silver both times from sites I had detected before. Had my silver umax with 10x12 coil, set to maximum sensitivity again and left the disc at foil and dug every good target and some questionable targets.

The silver ring was a very questionable target. It kept breaking up on me and I couldn't read it past the 1 cent mark on the disc, which really unusual for silver as it will keep giving a signal beyond that point. Dug down a couple inches and found out why I was getting a broken signal....one part of the band on the ring was broken off its soldering point.

The silver dime hit very good at first, but as I moved the dirt with my shoe the dime went with it, and on the surface was giving me broken signals. I could have brought the sensitivity down to avoid that but I really didn't think of it at the time and I really wasn't expecting it to be a silver dime since the area was really trashy. Well, to my surprise a small, blackened, coin-shaped disc appeared. Thought it was a penny but to my surprise it was a 1942 merc! Cleaned it up just a bit with baking soda to remove some of the charring.

Ray

 

[Jerry1NJ]

Great find! Nice ring!

 

[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

Ray in CA,

neat.

Silver is always nice.

have a good un..........
SHERMANVILLE

 

[FooserPaul]

I like that ring!

Grads on the 2 silver weekend :-)

 

[ModernMiner]

Way to go on the silver Ray!
The Umax pulls through again.
-MM-

 

[civilman1]

Congrat's on a "Silver Kinda Weekend" Ray.....Hope you don't have any daughter's

 

[kimsdad]

Great finds, Ray!!!

Glad you did well!

 

[Captn SE]

Nice going, Ray!

You just proved there's still silver out there.

HH,
CAPTN SE
Dan

 

[kdismuke1]

If you look you will find. like the ring.

 

[Detectingfreak]

nice job on the merc and the ring!

 

[Rob66]

Sweet ring

 

[crazyjarhead]

Nice finds Ray. Be carefull of the wild fires. I know there isn't much grass around Banning but when the onshore winds come back I would suspect all of that smoke will get filtered through the Banning pass around Palm Springs

 

[topdog]

Nice looking Silver from both outings.

 

[Ray in CA]

Thanks everyone!

Dan, I had to tell myself that I've got to snag some silver before I leave California. Can't let Dan have it all, LOL. Sad thing is, this will probably be the last silver I dig out of Banning since I won't have time this week at all to do any detecting. It's packing week! I leave my home detecting grounds to others now willing to brave the stares of curious Banning onlookers.

crazyjarhead, actually Banning has a ton of dry grass in the surrounding hills and mountains. Two years ago we had one of the biggest fires in California, called the Esperanza fire. It was started by an arsonist and five firefighters were killed in the line of duty. The arsonist knew what he was doing when he lit the fire because he started it in an location where he knew the fire would spread up the mountains fast, furious and far, and would be difficult to contain by firefighters.

My wife and I actually saw the Corona fire on Saturday afternoon. That morning we drove to Southgate and passed through Corona around 9am and the skies were clear. By the time we made our way back to Banning at 2pm the fire was huge and so was the cloud of smoke. Traffic was backed up for miles on end on the other side of the 60 freeway heading west. We need to keep these people in our prayers, as well as others in California who are facing similar fires in their areas.

Ray

 

[Bob S]

Nice Silver

WTG

 

[allen]

as much as i like the merc, the ring is a bit prettier..

 

[camb1]

You got a couple of beauties there.