After dozens of fruitless hunts, a silver coin shows up in an unlikely place!

[washingtonian]

Wow, what a day. I was super busy today with school, rock climbing, helping lead middle school Bible Study, etc, so I didn't get home till a little after 6. I then asked my brother if he wanted to go on a short hunt and after a little debate he agreed to come along. There is a large neighborhood complex very nearby us that is only 30 years old at the oldest, and we were going to hit the soccer fields there. The lacrosse kids were everywhere though, and I knew of a pool and park that were built nearby about 10 years ago. We went there, and I thought we might find some silver jewelry in the lawn by the pool, because people might take it off while swimming. Well about halfway through our hour long my brother starts hooting and hollering and I come over to discover he has found a 1963 D roosevelt dime! Now I realize this is a pretty commonplace silver coin, but it is our first of the year so we were pumped. We have been on dozens of hunts to older sites and already found 43 wheat pennies this year, but we were still looking for our first silver coin. Finally in a short 1 hour hunt, at a 10 year old park we got it. Well thanks for all of you that have been following our posts and encouraging us to keep at it and find our first silver coin of the year. Happy hunting, tear it up this weekend!

-Washingtonian

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Wow great finds.
And it sounds like you deserve it young man.
My hats off to you for leading Bible study.
Look us up if your ever this way my friend.
You do know we hire good people like you for the summer camp here ....right?


Mike Maggs and Sammie

 

[tomharris76]

who cares how old it is.....it's still silver and now your only 1 ahead of me for the year lol

 

[txpathfinder]

Congratulations on your first silver! May many come soon to follow.

 

[Chug And Red]

Congrats on the first silver!!!!!!!! I saw your post today On mine and Knew that i had to respond On yours Happy hunting!!!!!!

 

[juju]

Doesn't matter where ya find it. Its shiny and its yours. lol. Congrats.

JuJu

 

[treasurefiend]

Awesome job!!!

 

[oddcoins]

OH YEAH! That's a good start! It might not be very old ~ but it's SILVER! SWEET SILVER!

CONGRAT'S!!

 

[jcooking]

Congrats and good luck finding many more!!

 

[pennyfarmer]

Nice..

I am glad you broke the dry spell.

Last year I hunted a new park and when I got home there was a 1964 dime in my pouch. It must had been a surface find cause I didn't even know there was silver in my pouch.

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Congrats

The first one is just an ice breaker, now many more will follow

HH,
Brian

 

[hikeinmts]

Not "fruitless," as you had found some 40+ wheatbacks......and that is not fruitless.......just "silverless."
And now that doesn't apply, either. Keep up the good work, swinging the coil, and at your church.

 

[Deepdiger60]

Congrats on your first silver dont ya like the high pitch sound the DFX makes when you hit it of course if you got tone id on HH DD60

 

[dank]

Treasure is were you find it!

 

[Damon64]

The real fun is in the hunt, and you guys got a bonus! Good job!

 

[mlayers]

That your silver when you can. You don;t find much anymore not like it was 30 yrs ago. Hope this is only a start for you and there is plenty more to come.....Matt

 

[Detectingfreak]

Nice silver!

 

[jb58]

congrats to you guys Wash.
HH!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[vanoldschool]

cool Im pumped for ya! now im still on the Silver slump list. $20.00 in clad dug this year I should be pulling one soon!! Congratz I know the feeling!

 

[burglarifyoulike]

congratulations! I know it was even more exciting finding it in the "unlikely place!" Keep leading those kids in Bible study- that is a true treasure!