Big Silver found today!

TejasDigger · Mar 14, 2010

There's a park not that far from my house that I have kind of been avoiding. I found a War Nickel there a couple months ago, but it's in a bad neighborhood and there's a lot of trashy targets around. Well, I decided to give it another shot last friday and found a 1949 quarter along with a 1944s Wheaty. The park was established in the late thirties, so I knew it had some potential for some fairly old coins as long as you hunted the right spots. Today I went back out there with a friend and found a 1926s Peace Silver Dollar about five inches down. I couldn't believe it and didn't expect it to actually be a dollar even though that's what my machine was saying. I handed it to my buddy and he rubbed it to see the date :violent1:

. I guess he didn't know any better. The only other negative thing about it is someone scratched "POP" on it. I guess it may have been a gift, but I still think it was dropped a long time ago because of the depth. Here are the pictures of the silver quarter from Friday and the silver dollar from today:
Here's a link for youtube when I dug it:

63bkpkr · Mar 19, 2010

Hey Tejasdigger,
Nice Peace Dollar even with POP and date scratches. Watched the video and thought to mention that to help me pinpoint and then lay the tector down and dig I use a wooden stick to go through the hole in the coil. Pinpoint, shove the stick through the hole into the ground and the stick marks the spot and helps to get me back to the center point quicker, just a thought. Congrats on the dollar, Herb