My best day detecting to date! (updated w/ bad pic.)

[UTcoinshootR]

Ive been doing this for just over a year now and yesterday I had the best morning detecting I've ever had. The second target I dug rang on the DFX a steady 92 with a 93 sprinkled here and there. I prepare to dig another can, but when I lifted the loop off the ground it didn't ring anymore (usually the DFX will read a buried can a foot off the ground).

So I give it a wide birth and plop the dirt on the ground. I scanned again and its not in the hole! But the dirt outside of the hole isn't quite enough to cover an obvious soda can. I'm a little optimistic now. I drug my hand over the pile of dirt and BAM the gleaming white face of lady liberty shines back at me on a 1924 PEACE DOLLAR! I was so excited I was shaking. It looked so good against that black soil that I just kept wishing I had a decent camera with me. (Enough wishing, I'm going to best buy to get one this week).

That alone could have made my year detecting, but when I re-check the hole i get a solid 86-87 with every sweep. Sure enough out pops a 1930 S SLQ!!! TWO FIRSTS BACK TO BACK! I'll try to add pics this afternoon.

I am still on cloud 9 wishing you all good luck and a new best day of detecting.

 

[kilmer]

Re: My best day detecting to date!

Wow,
It doesn't get much better than that. Congratulations, I have been seeing all of the silver dollars that have surfaced this year.
I am jealous, thirty years of casual detecting and not one silver dollar. You guys give me hope though. Look forward to seeing
your photos.

HH, Don

 

[mikewaz]

Re: My best day detecting to date!

Way to go!
That's something I've never done in an awful lot of years of doing this.
Mike

 

[garthbfan169]

Re: My best day detecting to date!

WTG UT can't wait to see pics!!

 

[goldencoin]

Re: My best day detecting to date!

SWEET!

HH
-GC

 

[au4me]

Re: My best day detecting to date!

WOW, Nice job.

 

[hikeinmts]

Re: My best day detecting to date!

King for the Day, for sure.
Get back to us with those killer pictures.........waiting...........waiting.........c'mon, still waiting........

 

[Nighthunter]

Re: My best day detecting to date!

Fantastic finds! Congrats on the dollar and the SLQ. And both same hole. I seem to always get that same 'sinking' feeling of a can or large metal piece when I get the high signals, but it's awesome when its a coin. I think I darn near cleared the tree tops when I found my first one.
Congrats again and good hunting.

 

[UTcoinshootR]

Re: My best day detecting to date!

Wow,
It doesn't get much better than that. Congratulations, I have been seeing all of the silver dollars that have surfaced this year.
I am jealous, thirty years of casual detecting and not one silver dollar. You guys give me hope though. Look forward to seeing
your photos.

HH, Don

Thanks Kilmer. Thirty years?!!! You should have a bags full of these from the good old days. GL they are still out there.

 

[UTcoinshootR]

Re: My best day detecting to date!

Way to go!
That's something I've never done in an awful lot of years of doing this.
Mike

Thanks, I almost feel spoiled after only a year. Ive been at it pretty hard though this year.

 

[artzstuff1]

WOW!!!!YOU SIR,,,,, ARE THE KING!!!!!!! Great recovery!!!! YOU brought them back,,,,thanks for the posting and the pics are not to bad ,,,,


arthur

 

[UTcoinshootR]

Thanks to everyone that replied so far. Sorry about the pic, but my current camera is terrible. I plan on buying a new one this week to take with me when I detect. Nothing beats the way the coin looks fresh out of the hole.

 

[jrsherman]

Congrats on a super awesome killer find!!!