A silver surprise in my yard

[DANGLANGLEY]

My house was built in 1922 and quite a bit of top soil had been added to level the yard. I have found a wide assortment of cheap rings, tokens, a few silver dimes, wheat pennies and a couple of buffalo nickels. I took my SE out in the yard to play a little until my wife got home today and I got a sweet silver dime signal at about 8" deep. It was a solid signal but I just figured it was nothing because I haven't learned everything about the SE yet. I had to start using a shovel because the SE really picks up the deep targets, much deeper than my Ace 250. I cut a large plug out and it was still in the hole so I dug a little deeper and scanned the dirt and it was on top of the ground. I found a 1914 Barber dime inside a clump of dirt. It was scratched pretty bad and it looked like the scratches were fairly new. The only thing I can figure is that when they did the yard work about 4 or 5 years ago they must have hit it with the roto tiller or maybe the bobcat they were using. That's ok though because it made my day to find it no matter how bad it is scratched. A little later I got a solid nickel signal at 6" and out popped a no date buffalo nickel. I also found a key and a 1980 penny about 4" deep and a piece of a harmonica reed at 8" deep. A short hunt turned out to be a very good one. Have a great night you all.

DANGLANGLEY

 

[garthbfan169]

Sweet finds dang!!!

 

[bookfisher]

Finding old silver in your own yard...it doesn't get much better than that!

 

[Tank69]

very nice

 

[kane23]

dang,
I found old coins in my yard occsionally for years, the oldest being a 1865 two cent piece. I have my doubts about finding more. Way to go, Kane 23

 

[sscindercoop]

Nice finds !!!!!

 

[Michaelangelo]

Nice when you can hunt your own yard!! I'd take that barber any day-scratched or not. Sure you'll find more.

 

[kimsdad]

Man, I wish I could pop Barbers out of my yard! Nice find!!!

 

[Detectingfreak]

Very nice job on the silver and the no date buffalo

 

[intimer]

don't know if possible---but try to find where the topsoil is coming from?

good luck with finding tokens.

congrats!

 

[silvercop]

 

[allen]

scratched or not,
shes a keeper !!!

 

[vermonster]

Nice finds, I own a 1850 farm house in southern vermont with 150 acres. So far I've found a Army Navy token, lots of wheat pennies, couple of buttons and a couple of belt buckles, and an old trolley wheel ( found by Hogge) The Bennington- North Adams trolley runs thru my yard, 1 million people rode the trolley from 1860 to 1905 when they tore up the rails so thats kinda neat Well anyways, happy hunting in your own backyard!

 

[lonewolfe]

Cool finds!

HH