Been a Slow Month But Finally a Big Silver!

[oldmxrat]

I have been doing my due diligence trying to bag some gold or silver. Lots of park hunts with clad and trash.
These two pics are from this week and are pretty typical, but most times I don't bother to take a pic.

The Airpods charged up, but won't allow connection because they're secure-paired to somebody's phone. The freshwater pearls are real, but the metal is just bling. The dollar bill was waded up and just sitting between clumps of grass.

Yesterday I spent a couple hours in a park digging clad and trash, and stepping in dog crap, and decided to go drive around an older neighborhood looking for a place to dig. I spotted a curb strip that was just dirt and weeds, and separated from the house by a tall cinderblock wall, so I went to work.
After some random trash and a little clad I got a loud and steady 95 on the Legend. Out popped this beat up 1951 Benny!

It's had a rough life, but will be treated nicely from now on!
That makes 20 silvers so far in 2024.

 

[billb]

Congratulations
That silver count fty is really impressive
Nice work

 

[Oldrvrrat57]

I knew it wouldn't be long before you posted more silver!!

 

[ToddsPoint]

Benjamin’s don’t show up on Tnet very often. Only made from 48-63 so made for just 15 yrs. Also, during that time the half dollar fell out of favor with the public. Kind of a rare find for a coin not really that old.

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Great find - congrats !

 

[Bamasteve]

Nice find, congrats!

 

[pepperj]

Nice silver, and your count is going up nicely.
Though there's nothing nice about stepping in a fido pile while out detecting.
Worse yet getting a good signal under one.

 

[oldmxrat]

Benjamin’s don’t show up on Tnet very often. Only made from 48-63 so made for just 15 yrs. Also, during that time the half dollar fell out of favor with the public. Kind of a rare find for a coin not really that old.

It's the 3rd one I've found here in just over a year, and then there's all those Walkers (sorry ARC), thinking they must have had lots of 50c slot machines in Vegas back then.

 

[Digger RJ]

I have been doing my due diligence trying to bag some gold or silver. Lots of park hunts with clad and trash.
These two pics are from this week and are pretty typical, but most times I don't bother to take a pic.

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The Airpods charged up, but won't allow connection because they're secure-paired to somebody's phone. The freshwater pearls are real, but the metal is just bling. The dollar bill was waded up and just sitting between clumps of grass.

Yesterday I spent a couple hours in a park digging clad and trash, and stepping in dog crap, and decided to go drive around an older neighborhood looking for a place to dig. I spotted a curb strip that was just dirt and weeds, and separated from the house by a tall cinderblock wall, so I went to work.
After some random trash and a little clad I got a loud and steady 95 on the Legend. Out popped this beat up 1951 Benny!
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It's had a rough life, but will be treated nicely from now on!
That makes 20 silvers so far in 2024.

Good Ol’ Ben!!! Very Nice!!!! Congrats!!!!

 

[Silvermonkey]

Yes sir....always a treat when Uncle Ben joins the party. Beautiful big silver. Congrats!

 

[Bart@Big Boys Hobbies]

Hey! I think those are my ear pods! Ha Ha

Nice Silver!

 

[oldmxrat]

Hey! I think those are my ear pods! Ha Ha

Nice Silver!

Ha! I found some a couple of years ago and have been using them daily ever since.

Thanks

 

[Bucket Lister]

I understand that substrate isn't as hard on Ag & Au coins as it is on Cu coins, and most of the Ag coins I've seen recovered in YT vids are in pretty remarkable condition.

So can anyone tell me what in the substrate caused the (pitting?) damage to this BF half dollar?

I'd like to know so I can guess what to expect if/when I may encounter certain soil conditions.

THX

 

[oldmxrat]

I understand that substrate isn't as hard on Ag & Au coins as it is on Cu coins, and most of the Ag coins I've seen recovered in YT vids are in pretty remarkable condition.

So can anyone tell me what in the substrate caused the (pitting?) damage to this BF half dollar?

I'd like to know so I can guess what to expect if/when I may encounter certain soil conditions.

THX

I would like to know that myself as it's very common to find silvers with pitting here in Southern Nevada.

 

[mindcrime1988]

Nice half.

 

[FreeBirdTim]

Congrats! I've never found a Franklin half in 11 years of metal detecting. Not a common find...

 

[Trezurehunter]

Very nice, congrats on that Franklin.

 

[releventchair]

I would like to know that myself as it's very common to find silvers with pitting here in Southern Nevada.

Congrats!

Acidity matters. Other metals as well. (Dissimilar metals touching often corrode. With an informal rule being , dissimilar metals corrode.)

Moisture matters. Part of how dissimilar metals , or acidity can change metals.

Your Franklin should be around 10% copper. Which might be about (or in part) the amount of corrosion/pitting you see?

Site conditions vary. Even by inches depending on what is in the soil. Hard to say just by region broad brushing. Like , Nevada soil covered with silver. (!)

https://www.thermofisher.com/blog/metals/can-you-shovel-silver-coins-off-the-ground-in-nevada/

 

[scruggs]

A nice big Ben is hard to beat, good job!