My first great find and a question?... ww09.20.06

[wheres_wheatie]

I went back to the park I've been hunting for about 2wks now... my first time there (which was my first time ever using an md) I found 2 wheat pennies. I've been back there three times since then, the last two I just found a bunch of trash and junk... including 12 rifle shells. Today I started out searching near an old looking stone wall I'd been hunting, I found a clad dime (1980), and the came across a bullet shell from a 22... it was really hard to pinpoint, it kept rolling down the hill I was on and the signal kept vanishing it drove me crazy! About 1hr into it I got a call from my girl telling me to get home and blah blah blah.... I figured I needed to find something good before I left so I headed down a path in the woods and stopped at its end. The path was overgrown with nature and after awhile I lost it, at the very end I hit a strong signal and dug a hole about 5in in depth, I scanned the ground and the signal was gone so I scanned the pile of dirt I had removed and my md rang out loud with a silver signal. The dirt was dark on top and turned kinda orange towards the bottom. I broke up a big clump of dirt and saw...

 

[laralucine]

Re: My first great find... ww09.20.06

wow! nice quarter - congratulations!

 

[Mona Lisa]

Re: My first great find... ww09.20.06

Wow! It's great to find a SLQ with a legible date. Congrats!

 

[Spitfire Reddie]

Re: My first great find... ww09.20.06

nice find wheatie !

 

[aarremaanalla]

Re: My first great find... ww09.20.06

Very Nice Coin!

I bet that you will have plenty of those.

Good Luck.

 

[rvbvetter]

Re: My first great find... ww09.20.06

WOW!!! Beautiful find!!! If you weren't hooked on detecting before. I'll bet your an addict now ! WTG!!! HH

 

[shootist]

Re: My first great find... ww09.20.06

really nice find,dont see a lot of slq in that kinda shape,must have been lost fairly early in its career. Tell her that its very important that you go immediately to blah blah bla... and get back out there HH

 

[romeo-1]

Re: My first great find... ww09.20.06

There ya go...nice standing liberty

 

[mlw67]

Re: My first great find... ww09.20.06

She's a beauty! Nice find.

 

[wisc pete]

Re: My first great find... ww09.20.06

CONGRATS!

 

[wheres_wheatie]

Re: My first great find... ww09.20.06

Thanks All! This is my first in so many ways and my oldest. After a few days of scraps this has really renewed my MD spirit! I know the coin is not worth a whole lot but I wanted to clean it without devaluing it. Could anyone recommend a good way to do this?

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Congrats on the SLQ and it's in nice condition! I don't clean too much other than rinsing it off with water and a soft toothbrush. I do occasionally clean my silver coins found on farm fields with a silver cleaner I bought from a coin dealer. HH, Mike

 

[eric in ks]

Great quarter. Don't see a lot of em' come out of the ground with full dates. HH, Eric

 

[Danimal]

Beautiful SLQ!!...I have only dug one, and with no date.

I know you're not supposed to clean silver coins, as it devalues them, but first I make sure it's not a key date or something, then if it's not, I break out the Simichrome and a cotton cloth and let er rip. They come out beautifully. There's no abrasives, and after only a few weeks they start to develope a nice natural tone.
Look up Simichrome on the web and buy some!

 

[Burdie]

SLQ!!! I could just look at those kind of quarters for hours.

Burdie

 

[Ramapirate]

I want to find one so bad I can taste it! There's one out there for me somewhere, I'll keep it swinging. Super nice find!!

HH,
Ramapirate

 

[The Gemologist]

Sounds like i better start checking my paths to a from more closely. I've always just left the coin in distilled water for a while to see if that helps

 

[funkman]

great find!! I'm still waiting for my first SLQ and quite a few other firsts.

Funkman

 

[DugHoles]

What a fantastic quarter...........Congrats!

GL & HH,

DugHoles

 

[bcs123]

great looking SLQ my first find was a 1926 SLQ but urs is in much beter shape..keep up the good work