Finds from past week. CW relics and found my first silver coin ever today.

matt092079 · Mar 10, 2012

These are my finds from this past week. These are all from the same farm site in Winchester, Va. Last Sunday I found a spencer bullet a burnside and another bullet...but not sure what kind it is. Found a flat button a knife and what I think is the back of a pocket watch. Monday me and my cousin went out and it started snowing HARD...blizzard like conditions. 5 minutes later the sun was out and all the snow was gone. I found a colt pistol bullet a couple burnsides and a carbine sling j hook I believe. Went to another area of the farm on Tuesday where I found my cavalry button last year. Found what I believe was a small campsite in this area...found like 2 colts and 2 burnsides. Yesterday I found 2 burnsides, one almost with the cartridge fully intact and a colt.

Went out today after work with my cousin and a buddy from work to the same campsite area. Wasn't finding much with the new F75. I finally hit a 60-70 vdi at 8 inches by a tree and it was a spencer. I walked all through these woods with no luck and went back to the area where I was finding most of the stuff and found this weird thing that looks like it has gears on it. Found a rivet with a little leather still on it and as I was about to leave I get a 67 vdi and for some reason even though I never have found a coin in these woods, I thought maybe it was a clad dime or maybe even a mercury dime a hunter had dropped over time. But to my surpise it was a 1897 barber dime! This is my first EVER silver coin found since I started detecting last July. Needless to say I was very thrilled with that and then called it a day! Thanks for looking and happy hunting!

MiniMe · Mar 10, 2012

Congratulations on your first silver! That coin rocks. :headbang:

matt092079 · Mar 10, 2012

Minime said:
Congratulations on your first silver! That coin rocks.

Thanks! Your blood starting to pump for the DIV? :headbang:

I know mine is. I've never had the chance to metal detect all day for 3 whole days straight. I might kinda be in heaven. :icon_sunny:

flyinryan2 · Mar 10, 2012

Congrats on the silver today, i should have hung around a few more minutes so i could have seen it in person. We need to hit that area hard this week to comes. I'll get my finds posted tomorrow, the spencer cartrigde cleaned up nice. :icon_thumleft:

old digger · Mar 10, 2012

Congratulations! Nice dime.

matt092079 · Mar 10, 2012

flyinryan2 said:
Congrats on the silver today, i should have hung around a few more minutes so i could have seen it in person. We need to hit that area hard this week to comes. I'll get my finds posted tomorrow, the spencer cartrigde cleaned up nice.

Thanks Ryan. We sure do. So ya cleaned up the spencer hey? lol Can't wait to see it.

VOL1266-X · Mar 10, 2012

You are learning that F75 Matt. The shaft with the gears on it looks like a wick control on an oil lamp. HH, Quindy.

jewelerguy · Mar 10, 2012

that's a great first silver! :thumbsup:

matt092079 · Mar 10, 2012

VOL1266-X said:
You are learning that F75 Matt. The shaft with the gears on it looks like a wick control on an oil lamp. HH, Quindy.

Quindy...I'm leaving with a lot less trash now with this F75 and leaving with more treasure! It's great. And I think you may be right on the wick control. Nice eye.

deepsecrets · Mar 10, 2012

Sweet!

Deno · Mar 10, 2012

Congrats on the Barber.

It took me about 11 years to find my first one.

matt092079 · Mar 10, 2012

Wow. 11 years? Here I thought I was doing something wrong. I swore that every silver coin found on here was fake. lol

Bavaria Mike · Mar 11, 2012

Congrats on the Barber and relics! HH, Mike

CSA2K · Mar 11, 2012

Congrats!

Kathryn · Mar 11, 2012

Great silver find....I have only been hunting 3 yrs, but I will never forget my first silver coin! I was shaking when I pulled it out of the ground!
Still have not found a silver dime.
Will be looking to see when yo find more.

matt092079 · Mar 11, 2012

Cool thing was it was only about 4 inches in the ground. I saw it at the bottom of the hole and it looked like a penny. Took it out of the hole and I knew I had silver...couldn't tell what though. I had to do a little spit shine and check the date and knew it was a barber then. Just used water to clean it up...think it looks pretty good considering it's age. You pull a 2011 dime out of the ground and it's either black or dark brown.

lost hunter · Mar 13, 2012

highnam · Mar 13, 2012

matt092079 said:
Wow. 11 years? Here I thought I was doing something wrong. I swore that every silver coin found on here was fake. lol

I'm hoping that once you find your first silver they start flowing like it does for a lot of people on here. You must pass the patience test before you find your first stubborn silver. I am losing my patience, thanks for your post. Cool old stuff.