MORGAN found at worked out schoolyard!!

58chevy348 · Sep 5, 2008

I decided to hit an old schoolyard I have worked (and many others have worked) many times. Here in NC, this is the first morning of sunshine we've had this week. We've had to deal with about 6 to 8 inches of rain due to the remnants of the recent tropical storm. I had always read that you can get a better signal when the ground is wet, so I thought I'd test this theory out by going to a place I'd been many times before, in search of deeper coins. Well, I had just turned on my DFX, and the first signal I hit read around 83 VDI, but showed a depth of about 6 to 7 inches. I first dug a plug about 5 inches deep. Used the bullseye, and pinpointed it in the bottom of the hole. About 2 more inches down, out popped this 1956 Washington silver quarter!! MY FIRST SILVER QUARTER! I was so excited! After double checking the hole, I moved on. I continued my line for about 50 feet, digging a few good signals. One turned out to be a led tube of toothpaste (very old). I turned around and headed back toward the direction of the silver quarter find. I had just passed this hole when I had a VDI of 92 sream at me! I really wasn't that excited, because I've had hot rocks, and even some large iron give a "false" spike in the 90s, but I dug anyway. The DFX said it was about 5 inches down. Again, I dug about 4 inches of dirt away, pinpointed the signal with the bullseye, and gave it another scoop. The edge of something silver was revealed, and I said to myself, "PLEASE let this be what I think it is!" Sure enough, out popped this 1882 Morgan Silver Dollar!!!! I was so excited, I just had to walk back to my car for a few minutes for this to sink in! Of course, I headed back after catching my breath and meticulously searched an area about 20 feet square to see if there were any other hits. None to be found. With the sun quickly creating a steamy hot morning, and with the sweat already beginning to get past the comfort zone, I decided to call it a morning. 1 hour of detecting, first hole silver quarter (my first), and a wonderful silver dollar (definitely a first).......my best day ever! (Working from the coins / jewelry program, preamp 3, sweep speed 14, recovery speed 17, AC 69, DC 39. Now, I will NEVER believe an area has been completely hunted out!

Detectingfreak · Sep 5, 2008

really nice job on the morgan dollar!!!

Congratulations on the fabulous find!!!

texan connection · Sep 5, 2008

Let me be the first to say AAAAHHHHHHH,, Great recovery

ramfan · Sep 5, 2008

Grt finds! From what I've read it just seems like those old school yards are never completely worked out.

mistergee · Sep 5, 2008

its hard to believe that at one time it was common to carry such large coins around............and then lose them

congrats on the nice find :thumbsup:

JerV3 · Sep 5, 2008

Wow Congrats,

Very true it is super hard to hunt a area out. It can't be done with ground changes all the time. The Dfx is a very great detector also. I've mastered it over the yrs and have made some great finds over the yrs.

Also it looks like another coin was sitting on that morgan. Did you recheck that hole. Very easy not to due when that excited. Also you may have put the coin on edge in the side of the hole while getting the morgan out. And it may not of gave a great audio signal when the hole was re checked. You'd get a crackled sound from the broken hollow of the coins that were in the ground. And not neccesarily a good reading on another object in that hole.

HH Jer

kimsdad · Sep 5, 2008

Welcome to TreasureNet! Congrats on your superfine day!!! :thumbsup:

I look forward to more fine posts from you!

A Morgan dollar is on my want list for sure! Nice going!!! :wink:

rmptr · Sep 5, 2008

That's amazing.

I'd like to find something nice, like that!

Good for you!

Thanks for the nice post. Hope you find a bunch more!

rmptr

Roger Mn. · Sep 5, 2008

Nice silver finds and I will try your coins/jewelry settings. I always hunt in EEPROM HI-Pro.Congratulations :thumbsup:

gallienus267 · Sep 5, 2008

You may go your whole life and never again find one of those. Ex. find.

BandB1 · Sep 5, 2008

Super cool Morgan WOW!

I agree with Jerdfx, I've pulled a few coins, alas only clad that had a round clean spot, or round mark, that indicated another coin and sure enough there was another in the hole. I'd bet what made that mark was copper which could mean a Indian Head or better. Cool find.

Good luck,
HH.