Iffy signal turns into a sweet coin spill!

bazinga

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I went out detecting this afternoon at what has become my favorite park for the past 2 weeks. After about 3 hours I was mumbling some bad words, as all I had found were 5 wheats, and they were all found about 30min between each other.

But just before leaving, I thought I would try out one more little area that looked promising in hopes that it hadn't been pushed around / filled in over the years.

At about 5" deep I get a really jumpy signal that was bouncing between penny/dime and iron. I didn't have really high hopes for it as I had already dug a handful of these signals already only to find falsing bent square nails in the holes.

Then out popped big silver! As I'm looking at that, I see another piece of silver in my pile of dirt. Then after that excitement, I rechecked the hole to find a barber dime as well! An 85 cent pocket spill! Tough to beat that! About 20 feet away I pulled out the mercury dime as well.

Finds:
9 Wheats
1920 Walking Liberty Half Dollar - Appears to have a lot of detail
1908-O Barber Quarter
1904 Barber Dime
1941-D Mercury Dime
Gold plated locket or small pocket watch? front is rusted

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Man and I thought I did good with a 1904 quarter & a 1909 v nickle along with a couple arrow heads. Grest finds & keep it up.
 

That is a sweet spill! I can't imagine the iffy signal, though; it pays to dig them, though!
 

Wow! Great finds on a iffy! Love that half - nice condition.
Good thing you decided to dig it.
John from Upstate NY
 

Congratulations, heck of a pocket spill, Love that pocket watch too.
 

hey, the coin in the bottom right of the last pic looks like a clipped planchet error

HH
-GC
 

Great finds. Love that big silver. I found a 1909 Barber Quarter today that looks alot like your 1908. HH

Bob
 

You found the jackpot :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
 

bscofield6 said:
...I had already dug a handful of these signals already only to find falsing bent square nails in the holes.
Man, do I know that feeling!

Holy cow!! What a hunt!! :o Congrats on the great spill!!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :icon_king: :icon_king:

You've got to be sitting on cloud nine right now! ;D

WTG!
 

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