Had To Dig 191 Coins to Find One Silver....But It's Still Worth it!

[Cool Hand Fluke]

I hunted several areas today, some were median strips others were parks. I finished that median strip and managed 4 more wheat cents and a lot of clad.
I dug about 70 coins, a couple of tokens, and some dog tags in the median strip but had no silver. Decided to go over to a park that has been pounded to death by a lot of other guys and got lucky with a mercury dime about a foot away from the sidewalk. More clad and several more wheat cents would come up, but that merc dime would
be the highlight of the day.

 

[Gridwalker306]

Congrats on a great hunt. I can't imagine digging 562 Mercury dimes, even if it took 30 years. I bet it's quite the pile, do you still have them all?

 

[ecmo]

191 coins in one day?It would take me 8-10 hunts to do that,than again I only hunt about 3 hrs. at a time and seldom hunt parks,also watching me hunt is akin to watching hubcaps rust.By the time I slowly X pinpoint,kneel down and lay down my little towel,dig my plug,pinpoint plug and or hole scoop out more dirt,ck. again,locate coin,pour dirt into hole,kneed it down or tamp with butt of digger,replace plug,thump down with palm of hand and fluff up grass and stand up sometimes 3 1/2+ minutes elapsed.

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[Peyton Manning]

dude I have dug more coins and have yet to find a 90%er
just one warnickle

 

[DiamondDan]

The way I partially funded my current detector was with 90 bucks in dug clad. I have yet to find a silver coin. If you ask me, 1/191 is a pretty good ratio. Nice score.

 

[tomhighland]

Congratulations on the mercury. Excellent lifetime total.

 

[dirtdigginfool]

Congrats on Merc number 562! Very impressive total, BTW. I haven't checked my total lately...let's take a quick look....1, 2, 3, 4, 5, .....yep 5! Lol...no wonder I've only found 5, YOU'RE hoarding them! Ha..great find, thx..ddf

 

[against the wind]

Wow,, I know that is a lot of digging. I have had a few hunts in the neighborhood of 190 coins but it doesn't happen often and will exceed a normal 8 hour hunt.
Where are the trash pictures? lol
Congratulations

 

[A2coins]

I'm going to try the area of the walkways and see how it goes for me Ive heard you mention it a few times Thanks for the cool post

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on the merc and other nice finds and post

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Very nice hunt and Mercury dime! Those dimes never get old, they are a beautiful design.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Congrats on some nice finds.

 

[Cool Hand Fluke]

Congrats on a great hunt. I can't imagine digging 562 Mercury dimes, even if it took 30 years. I bet it's quite the pile, do you still have them all?

I still have all of them. I'm trying to dig a complete set. My only key date merc is a 1921-D I dug up two years ago.

 

[Cool Hand Fluke]

191 coins in one day?It would take me 8-10 hunts to do that,than again I only hunt about 3 hrs. at a time and seldom hunt parks,also watching me hunt is akin to watching hubcaps rust.By the time I slowly X pinpoint,kneel down and lay down my little towel,dig my plug,pinpoint plug and or hole scoop out more dirt,ck. again,locate coin,pour dirt into hole,kneed it down or tamp with butt of digger,replace plug,thump down with palm of hand and fluff up grass and stand up sometimes 3 1/2+ minutes elapsed.

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Most of the coins came out of the sandy loam soil in that median strip. Recovery was fast and easy. Digging out 200 coins in one day is not unusual around here. I've pulled out 500 coins in one day hunting on the ski slopes around Lake Tahoe. On a weekend day I usually will hunt from around 8am to 7pm with and hour break for lunch, I pretty tired after all that but you have to put in the time to increase the possibility of a good find.

 

[Cool Hand Fluke]

dude I have dug more coins and have yet to find a 90%er
just one warnickle

Location, location, location. That's the secret.

 

[Tom Bigbee]

I still have all of them. I'm trying to dig a complete set. My only key date merc is a 1921-D I dug up two years ago.

I bet you already have most of the 'S' mintmarks.

 

[The Dirt Pirate]

Nice finds.

 

[Cool Hand Fluke]

I bet you already have most of the 'S' mintmarks.

I do! Proably 70% of my dug silver coins are the S mint marks. It's to P mint marks that are hard to find!I still need three more Roosevelt silver dimes to dig a complete set. The 3 missing ones are all P's.