Clad the Impaler
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Hi everyone!! As the title says...got my 1st unassisted silver today!! Yay!! Almost didn't get it at all....after hopefully solving the sensitivity setting problem on my detector, headed to a new park in the city to check it out. Not good. Cops camped out and keeping an eye on the park, drug packaging everywhere, creepy people/riffraff hanging about, and trash galore!! The place was more like a landfill than a city park. I changed coils to the smaller stock coil, but still had problems w/ signal overload. Decided to hit the tot lot for some easy clad....dug a little before it got too crowded and I decided to leave. Headed out, and before going home, decided to try a park closer to my place that's MUCH less trashy and loaded with clad. Right off the bat, dug a clad dime. Decided to hit a dirt mound just for the heck of it. Solid dime signal not 2 minutes in...I dig, POOF!! Disappearing signal again....WTF
Cover the hole after deciding to move on, rescan one more time, now it's showing dollar coin @ 8+ inches...again WTF So I reopen the hole, and after removing the loose dirt see what appears to be a silver dime on its side about 4 inches down. Grab it, notice no clad strip, and it's shiny...COOL!! SILVER!! Shake it in some water, and PRESTO! Turned out to be a beautiful '57D Roosie. My first unassisted silver ever (for those of you that remember the '44 Merc I got last Monday, TF actually found that signal, he let me dig it). Totals for the day were: $1.17 in clad (1 clad bicentennial quarter, 7 clad dimes, 3 clad Jefferson nickels, and 7 memorial pennies (6 copper and 1 zinc)), the '57D Roosie, and a '44D wheatie that I didn't even realize I'd dug, plus the usual trash and misc. junk. The wheatie must've been one of the last coins I dug in the tot lot (it was getting so dark I couldn't really see, just looked @ the obverse and saw Lincolns head; thought it was a memorial). Had a great day considering I go back to work tomorrow night, so today was probably my last chance to go detecting for at least a few days. 
That's me going WAAAHH!! 'cuz my vacation ends today....pics below. Enjoy!! 
Cover the hole after deciding to move on, rescan one more time, now it's showing dollar coin @ 8+ inches...again WTF So I reopen the hole, and after removing the loose dirt see what appears to be a silver dime on its side about 4 inches down. Grab it, notice no clad strip, and it's shiny...COOL!! SILVER!! Shake it in some water, and PRESTO! Turned out to be a beautiful '57D Roosie. My first unassisted silver ever (for those of you that remember the '44 Merc I got last Monday, TF actually found that signal, he let me dig it). Totals for the day were: $1.17 in clad (1 clad bicentennial quarter, 7 clad dimes, 3 clad Jefferson nickels, and 7 memorial pennies (6 copper and 1 zinc)), the '57D Roosie, and a '44D wheatie that I didn't even realize I'd dug, plus the usual trash and misc. junk. The wheatie must've been one of the last coins I dug in the tot lot (it was getting so dark I couldn't really see, just looked @ the obverse and saw Lincolns head; thought it was a memorial). Had a great day considering I go back to work tomorrow night, so today was probably my last chance to go detecting for at least a few days. That's me going WAAAHH!! 'cuz my vacation ends today....pics below. Enjoy!! 
After reading the silver tally rule book, section 5 article 3 says that you can officially claim this as your 2nd silver. 
