Christmas Came Early! At Long Last, Silver Coin #100 FTY

[washingtonian]

Hi everyone,

Wow, what a journey this year has been. My brother and I set out to have our best year yet but we had no idea what was in store. Our original goal was to find a combined 36 silver coins this year (which would bring us to 100 total lifetime), but we blew past that in March. We found a lot early in the year thanks in large part to my brother. I sent an article to him last fall about an old private site that was about to become public for the first time. He scoped it out and quickly found it was full of silver.

We made a new friend at that site (Jordan/Goat88) who was really helpful. Thanks again Jordan for all your recommendations about gear and especially for turning me onto the CTX and sharing your settings. Being able to hunt in the rain has been a game changer.

Around March/April I started to realize I might be able to find 100 silver coins on my own this year. I started to turn on the jets and get a lot of permissions. That worked for a while. Things started to slow down because we had a really dry spring and that's when Mike/Echoplex jumped in.

Mike is a class act. He invited me to join him on a beach site he had found and that was a real game changer as well. It allowed me to keep finding silver even when I couldn't hunt in the turf.

Well, one things leads to another and here we are today. I needed one more silver coin to hit one hundred and this old 1919 Merc was the one. Nice to let her see the light of day just a week shy of her 100th birthday as well. Before I found the Merc I also found a sterling St. Christopher medal.




Thanks again for all of your encouragement too. Truth, bass, PoE, Metal Headz, DirtLooter, CarolinaTom, 8 Reales, Brendan75, A2Coins, and all the rest of you lot that have been with me the whole journey. There are way too many of you to name but seeing your finds and reading your comments/encouragement have helped spur me on too.

Thanks so much for looking. I may still get a couple last hunts in this year and will definitely be doing a year end post come early January.

As always, good luck in the hunt my friends.

-W (Eric)

 

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[washingtonian]

Awesome Im at 96 last 10 hunts zero silver I gotta get 4 more in the next week lol Awesome job everyone. Happy Holidays. Tommy

Thanks Tommy! Keep after it, I hope you make it!! Maybe try some sidewalk strips

 

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[highnam]

Thanks so much highnam!

To be honest, I don’t love cold opens either. What I started doing was creating post cards that explain who I am and why I’d be interested in doing some metal detecting. I leave them in mailboxes in target areas and then try to follow up in person within a week or two. I often only ask for permission to do the sidewalk strips since people are less protective of those. If I get a good vibe I’ll ask about the yard too. Because I’m so out in the public I still catch a good deal of flak from negative Nancy’s but I figured that’s the cost of finding silver around here 路*♂️

Lately I’ve been focusing on the sidewalk strips around construction sites since people generally don’t really care about those. I think often times they just assume I’m there working.

i really like the postcard approach, I think it is a creative way to introduce yourself and let them in on your intentions. I think just asking about just the curb strip is also way to let them know you respect the rest of their property. If the curb strip goes well and is left clean, curiosity might get you in the yard. You have been a big help and encouragement in a tough state to hunt. Thanks Bud

 

[washingtonian]

i really like the postcard approach, I think it is a creative way to introduce yourself and let them in on your intentions. I think just asking about just the curb strip is also way to let them know you respect the rest of their property. If the curb strip goes well and is left clean, curiosity might get you in the yard. You have been a big help and encouragement in a tough state to hunt. Thanks Bud

Thanks and no problem! I’ll message you a photo of the post cards if I can find some old screenshots I took.

 

[goat88]

Outstanding job Eric. You definitely know what you are doing with that machine. Thanks for the shout out. Glad to help a respectable detectorist as yourself. Good luck on a seated my goal is another silver dollar next year. HH