If You Find Silver in a Park...You Go Back and Hunt it Again!

[Cool Hand Fluke]

Two weeks ago in this tiny park near the ocean near Highway One I dug out a merc and a SLQ. Today I went back to give it another try. I did't think much
would be left after my first day there, but I was wrong. 20 minutes into today's hunt I dug out a 1900-P barber dime. It was very shallow, only one inch on
a slope. It might have been washed down. Working my way to the south side another shallow silver coin was recovered, this one was a 1944-D 20 centavo
coin from the Philippines, it's bigger than a dime, but smaller than a quarter. These coins have the same silver composition as the US ones. Also dug were
a couple of wheaties. It's so easy to miss a good target, glad I went back.

 

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[Tuberale]

Congrats on the 1944-D Phillipino coin: truly a rarity.

 

[Digger RJ]

Very Nice!!! Congrats!!! Nothing is hunted out, even if We’ve done it Ourselves. As You said, good targets are easy to miss.
Happy Hunting!!

 

[JeffInMass]

Great finds- Congrats!

 

[CrankyBuzzard]

Nice finds for sure. As others have said, a place is never hunted out, the good stuff is just a little harder to get. I’d visit that place again for sure.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Well done, congrats!

 

[smokeythecat]

And then you hit it over and over. When you don't get any more, try a different brand of machine and see how you do. Lots of times switching to a different machine from a different manufacturer will get more stuff out of the ground.

 

[catpepper]

Congrats on those finds!

 

[CalReg]

Nice finds! If I've hit a place pretty hard, I still go back but hit the area from a different angle. So if I was hunting side to side in a field, maybe I'll try a diagonal pattern. I still squeak something out!

 

[xcopperstax]

Excellent finds! The barber is excellent and the centavo is pretty awesome too! I'd def go back too!

 

[BigWaveDave]

You can pretty much guarantee that you’ll never see me hunting in SF.... why bother?
It’s Cool Hand Flukes town.... and he owns it!

 

[Silvermonkey]

Nice job on the silvers. I'm always surprised when an old coin like your Barber is so shallow. I love the centavo. I found one of those a few years ago. I had no idea what it was until I did some research.
Congrats.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

I like how you look outside of the obvious areas to hunt my friend!

You never know where people may have walked, sat or tripped on hills or even at the side of an unassuming road.

Congrats on all of those beautiful silvers!

 

[Trezurehunter]

Those are a couple of nice silver CHF.

 

[A2coins]

Got that right and again and again and again lol Great job on the coinage.....Tommy

 

[Shakakka]

Congrats on the 1944-D Phillipino coin: truly a rarity.

Weird thing, my buddy and I found TWO of them a week ago, both 1944. They were One Centavo pieces though, and bronze instead of silver:



What happened in 1944? Lots of troops from the Navy coming home with WWII-era Filipino coinage?

 

[thrifty76now]

Nice haul with two old silver coins.

 

[the_mad_cladder]

Never seen one of those 20 centavos coins till today... cause I dug one. I got a 44 too. Did you check the mint mark? If it has an “s” with a “n” over it then it’s pretty rare.

 

[washingtonian]

Love it!! Thanks for sharing! You find the coolest stuff and I particularly love the silver Philippines coins.

 

[Dighere]

I like the pics of the actual spots. Makes the post much more interesting. Good work and nice finds!