Jeeze... Finally I dug my second silver coin.

[DiamondDan]

I think I was being punished by karma for the first and only silver coin I have ever dug before today, an 1899 Barber half. I have been detecting for nearly four years, and I finally dug another. A 1943 merc. It's in great condition!

I had found a park on Google Earth that used to be a small college campus. One of the buildings burned down, but they kept the red sandstone entranceways standing as sort of a memorial. It's a cool park. I am not exaggerating in the least when I say this park is HAMMERED! I hunted for three hours and, wow, is it clean! Every single signal I dug was very iffy except a couple freshly dropped quarters I found. Made for a relaxing hunt, though. No machine gun signals binging and bonging all over the place driving me nuts. I know this place was pounded because I could see many plugs from other people. They didn't do a terrible job, but I think most experienced detectorists can spot them more easily.

Finally pulled this beauty at about nine inches UNDERNEATH a nail! (I love my eTrac) Hopefully this marks an end to my substantial drought I've been under since finding that cursed half dollar!

Thanks for looking, gang! Dan

 

[Icewing]

4 years... holy crap... I thought I had bad luck. What did you do dig your first one out of a casket in a national park or something?

Congratulations on the nice merc. Hopefully the spell is broken and you find a lot more in the near future.

 

[DiamondDan]

4 years... holy crap... I thought I had bad luck. What did you do dig your first one out of a casket in a national park or something?

Nah, just swinging my detector near the donation tray of an orphanage for leper children.

 

[smallfoot]

That is a dry spell! We all have em...hopefully you find some success in your hunts besides finding silver!

 

[Digger RJ]

Sweet!!! Congrats!!!

 

[ToddsPoint]

Very nice merc. Gary

 

[Joe-Dirt]

Don’t feel bad, I only have one silver this year and it was toasted from salt water. The more you hunt, the better your chances............ keep on beepin’ on

 

[CTXAgGetter]

I'm gonna guess the guy leaving the half-ass plugs has already beaten you to everywhere you can think of locally. Maybe branch out to more distant spots? If you swing that Etrac slowly enough, though, you CAN find a bunch of good stuff left over by the folks who hit it before.
Oh yeah, and congrats on the merc!

 

[mddavis3]

Congratulations on a beautiful silver dime! I am after my second silver coin also. Found my first after detecting about a month. Been another month and I am getting discouraged.....until I read about your four year wait. Hope you start hitting them on a regular basis now. Good luck to us all!

 

[Trezurehunter]

Congrats on your second silver. I hope you have opened the flood gates, and it doesn't take another four years for your next one.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Congratualtions on the nice silver find!

 

[basque-man]

Congrats on #2! Hopefully the karma hex is over!

 

[Capone]

Congrats and hello from a fellow Minnesotan! Mercs have been hard to come by for me in our public parks.

 

[Inspector]

congratulations on #2, it's a beauty, HH

 

[DirtDigginDan]

Beautiful little Merc! 1943 again, they must have made a few that year, congrats!