Sooper Dave
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I was able to get out for a couple of hours Sunday afternoon to do some dirt fishing. I went to an old school spot that looked good on the old maps. The little old school is still standing and makes a cool backdrop as I think of the kids out playing around it trying to have some fun when not having to hit the books. The place is super trashy and the ground is very dry. I went slow and listened for any sign of a good signal. It started out slow with just digging bottle tops and deep cans. Seems that all of the grounds were used as a trash dump at some point. I started to dig a few wheat pennies around the side of the old school and then got a nice tight high tone that turned out to be a nice sterling ring. So I was hopeful of there being some silver left to be found. A few feet away from the ring I got another good high tone and was surprised to see the Eagle of a silver Kennedy half down in the hole. I've dug a few clad Kennedy's but this is my first silver. I slowly looked around that spot and pulled a few more wheaties and worked my way up the hill behind the school and it was just as trashy but managed to find a small Army cuff button and a Merc. It was getting time to go and I worked my way back to my truck. I spent a little more time in the front and picked out a nice high tone there and was expecting another lid off of some type of bottle when I flipped out one big ugly round disk the size of a half dollar. Sure enough after some cleaning I could see Lady Liberty walking in the sunset. This poor half is the worst one I've dug but excited to add it to the collection and glad you can at least tell what it is. It was nice to get out and dig a few keepers and think about the kids that were there to have dropped them a while back. HH David
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