My Best Silver Day Happened This Year

[Mason Jarr]

If I'm able, I usually go on a road trip each year to do a little detecting. This year I ran across a spot that ended up being my best silver day yet. The ground was literally hard as concrete from the drought. I honestly had to go to a hardware store and buy a hammer and chisel so I could get down to the coins. At the end of the day I was worn completely out, but was able to find silver in the double digits. It was also my first time hitting a dime trifecta...and if you count that French 50 centimes in the middle on the bottom row, a quad. I went back there the next day and got three more silver coins and my first silver thimble. I wish spots like this were common, but they don't happen very often. At least not for me.

 

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[Wildcat1750]

Great hunt! That was certainly worth buying the hammer and chisel for...

 

[xr7ator]

Nice finds, grats and thanks for sharing. I see a Colorado tax token and I am wondering if you came here for your trip and did so well? Also, where's the silver thimble?

 

[Mason Jarr]

Nice finds, grats and thanks for sharing. I see a Colorado tax token and I am wondering if you came here for your trip and did so well? Also, where's the silver thimble?

I wasn't in Colorado, but I have hunted there before. Here's the finds from the following day, including the thimble. Thanks for the reply!

 

[xr7ator]

Nice thinmble! The only silver one I have dug is smashed very similar. Thanks for the follow up pic. Those aluminum tax tokens are found often here and they are almost always a dissapointment. However, I just dug one the other day at a newly scraped lot and it must have came outta the house as it is in perfect uncirculated condition. Couldn't have been in the dry dirt more than a day or two. I got no silver that hunt and only 3 wheats, however...

HH ALL!

 

[vpone]

yeah wow ... great finds for sure

vp

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Killer finds - congrats !