My best silver day ever (morgans)

[Henry2]

Whew I still can't believe it, I was out for less than an hour at our local high school when I got a hit coming in the high 90's on my AT PRO, big rusty items sometimes give this reading. My first thought was maybe a manhole cover covered with grass since the hits were shaping up to look like half a circle. I almost passed it by but then thought hell it might be a silver chain spread out like that, thank God I went for it. I stuck my shovel in the ground not to deep expecting to hit a big chunk of metal but it went in smoothly. So I popped the plug and I almost crapped myself when I seen this huge piece of silver staring at me, at first glance I though wow someone dropped a 1ounce silver bullion piece. So I picked it up and flipped it over and I saw it was a Morgan . Now I'm pumped up and I knew there was more considering I was hitting this reading over a good size area, well I ended up pulling 2 more within a foot of this one. This is one of my best days ever.

The dates are a 1878-S, 1901-S,and a 1899-O. Sadly the first one I pulled I must of hit with my shovel, you can see a good size scratch on the top right corner

 

[detectahead]

Congrats!

 

[7creeks]

All I can say is WOW!!!!!!!

 

[Woodland Detectors]

That's a great haul! Congratulations

 

[Mr Tuff]

sweet spill!!!! MR TUFF

 

[CoilFisher]

Wow. Truly unbelievable.
Congrats!!!

And, I wonder myself how you can hunt a site and come back to it and find something.
I really wonder if changes in the atmosphere and ground conditions can do this, as well as, impending thunderstorms.

I had the same thing happen to me. Hit a site. Not much. Came back and found stuff with same detector and same battery level.

 

[Mach1Pilot]

Great find! Congrats!

 

[gleaner1]

Nice group of big ole cartwheels!

 

[steelheadwill]

Congrats on some rarely dug Silvers
I know what you mean about rusty iron sounding good...
Glad you decided to dig that tone
I hunt mostly in Relic/TTF and dig every peep, still haven't dug a Morgan,
but at least I'm pretty sure I haven't missed any

 

[Lowbatts]

Super dig!

The cartwheels just don't come up a lot anymore, great to see they can still be found!

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

Wow. Truly unbelievable.
Congrats!!!

And, I wonder myself how you can hunt a site and come back to it and find something.
I really wonder if changes in the atmosphere and ground conditions can do this, as well as, impending thunderstorms.

I had the same thing happen to me. Hit a site. Not much. Came back and found stuff with same detector and same battery level.

I found this 1840 Large Cent a few weeks back at a "hunted out" site. It is a woods/field site with walking paths. The coin was found only 2 inches down in the middle of the path. How did it get missed? I will never know for sure, but maybe erosion brought the coin closer to the surface, or maybe it was just missed by others. Maybe it even fell out of someone's find pouch.

Even the most popular sites to detect have some finds left. No individual or group using a 9, 12 or 15 inch coil can cover every inch of a site.

 

[trhunter1]

Wow!
Congratulations on the BIG SILVER!!

 

[Tuberale]

Congratulations on the 3 cartwheels! That's one big haul of silver!

Please consider not using a "shovel" for recoveries, especially in a school yard. Damage done to the yard may well lead to closures of the site for people in the future. A pinpointer would have made short work of these, plus left less evidence you were there. Sorry to carp on it, but in my area the parks were almost close down because of people using a shovel to recover a dime or penny. At least one local high school looked like the playing field had been used for a bombing range. The result was that Portland, Oregon ... with literally square miles of parks still open to metal detectorists ... was nearly off-limits. A shovel is fine for the beach, desserts or recently plowed fields. But totally inappropriate for parks, schools, or playing fields. If you would not use a shovel in your yard, don't use it on public property.

 

[Henry2]

Congratulations on the 3 cartwheels! That's one big haul of silver!

Please consider not using a "shovel" for recoveries, especially in a school yard. Damage done to the yard may well lead to closures of the site for people in the future. A pinpointer would have made short work of these, plus left less evidence you were there. Sorry to carp on it, but in my area the parks were almost close down because of people using a shovel to recover a dime or penny. At least one local high school looked like the playing field had been used for a bombing range. The result was that Portland, Oregon ... with literally square miles of parks still open to metal detectorists ... was nearly off-limits. A shovel is fine for the beach, desserts or recently plowed fields. But totally inappropriate for parks, schools, or playing fields. If you would not use a shovel in your yard, don't use it on public property.

Don't worry I wasn't using a full size shovel, mine only has a 5" width blade and trust me I am very picky about leaving the site like I found it. More than once I had to go around and fix other peoples holes because they made a mess of it, that pisses me off more then anything.

 

[HighTone]

That is AWESOME.... 3 Big Silvers...WTG Man

 

[lost crow]

Sweet find. Never found a silver dollar. Seems like they would be
hard to loose. You could feel the weight fall off of you.

 

[Tuberale]

Congratulations on the 3 cartwheels! That's one big haul of silver!

Please consider not using a "shovel" for recoveries, especially in a school yard. Damage done to the yard may well lead to closures of the site for people in the future. A pinpointer would have made short work of these, plus left less evidence you were there. Sorry to carp on it, but in my area the parks were almost close down because of people using a shovel to recover a dime or penny. At least one local high school looked like the playing field had been used for a bombing range. The result was that Portland, Oregon ... with literally square miles of parks still open to metal detectorists ... was nearly off-limits. A shovel is fine for the beach, desserts or recently plowed fields. But totally inappropriate for parks, schools, or playing fields. If you would not use a shovel in your yard, don't use it on public property.

Don't worry I wasn't using a full size shovel, mine only has a 5" width blade and trust me I am very picky about leaving the site like I found it. More than once I had to go around and fix other peoples holes because they made a mess of it, that pisses me off more then anything.

Apologies, Henry2. I guess it was the term "shovel" that got me.

 

[chkn]

Unbelievable find!!! Keep 'em comin'!!!