ggossage
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Finally after 9 years I found a Standing Liberty Quarter (1918S)--I've complained to pretty much everyone who shares my interest in this hobby that I've been wanting to add one to my collection. I'd found the Seated, the Barber and the Washington, but no Standing...until today, so the complaining is over!
My hunting buddy has found a couple of SLQs right in front of me...one time as he was about to show me his find, he said, "don't hate me" with a big ole grin on his face--he proceeded to show me his new SLQ...he did this at least twice that I remember. I guess my girlfriend has heard me complain the most though....heck, I dream about hunting in my sleep, so each time I go out for a hunt, I tell her that maybe today is the day. Today was the day and the beauty of it is my buddy and my girlfriend were with me when I found the quarter
It was a nice sunny day here; a comfortable 79 degrees--about the only thing not good about the conditions was the soil--very crumbly dry. We just got to the 1880s home site we had permission to hunt. My first hit was a wheaty at 5 inches. Even with the dry ground, it was a solid hit in correlate mode, PAG 2 and AC-76. My very next hit was showing a VDI shifting from 87 to 92 in a couple of different directions--6 inches. It was difficult to pinpoint because there was a nearby nail. I dug the plug extra deep just in case it WAS a quarter. As you all have probably experienced, sometimes coins in dry soil will pinpoint deeper than they actually are. Faced with a possible silver quarter, I wasn't taking any chances on scratching it, so I dug a nice wide plug and was shooting for 7 inches. I pulled the plug over, but the ground was so dry only 4-5 inches of plug came out of the dirt. I put the probe in the hole and got nothing. So I was a little disappointed that maybe my relatively deep quarter wasn't a quarter or even a coin at all. I put the probe on the bottom of the plug and I got a nice signal, so I slowly brushed the dirt away...that's when I saw silver.
I immediately was hoping it wasn't another Washington quarter...but I didn't even look. Instead I called my buddy and my girlfriend over. If it was an SLQ I wanted my buddy there for some payback--and my girlfriend there so she could see the happiness on my face. When I got enough dirt away to see the SLQ eagle on the reverse, the day became that much better! My buddy congratulated me and my girlfriend gave me a kiss....ah what a great day!
Thanks for looking! gg
My hunting buddy has found a couple of SLQs right in front of me...one time as he was about to show me his find, he said, "don't hate me" with a big ole grin on his face--he proceeded to show me his new SLQ...he did this at least twice that I remember. I guess my girlfriend has heard me complain the most though....heck, I dream about hunting in my sleep, so each time I go out for a hunt, I tell her that maybe today is the day. Today was the day and the beauty of it is my buddy and my girlfriend were with me when I found the quarter
It was a nice sunny day here; a comfortable 79 degrees--about the only thing not good about the conditions was the soil--very crumbly dry. We just got to the 1880s home site we had permission to hunt. My first hit was a wheaty at 5 inches. Even with the dry ground, it was a solid hit in correlate mode, PAG 2 and AC-76. My very next hit was showing a VDI shifting from 87 to 92 in a couple of different directions--6 inches. It was difficult to pinpoint because there was a nearby nail. I dug the plug extra deep just in case it WAS a quarter. As you all have probably experienced, sometimes coins in dry soil will pinpoint deeper than they actually are. Faced with a possible silver quarter, I wasn't taking any chances on scratching it, so I dug a nice wide plug and was shooting for 7 inches. I pulled the plug over, but the ground was so dry only 4-5 inches of plug came out of the dirt. I put the probe in the hole and got nothing. So I was a little disappointed that maybe my relatively deep quarter wasn't a quarter or even a coin at all. I put the probe on the bottom of the plug and I got a nice signal, so I slowly brushed the dirt away...that's when I saw silver.
I immediately was hoping it wasn't another Washington quarter...but I didn't even look. Instead I called my buddy and my girlfriend over. If it was an SLQ I wanted my buddy there for some payback--and my girlfriend there so she could see the happiness on my face. When I got enough dirt away to see the SLQ eagle on the reverse, the day became that much better! My buddy congratulated me and my girlfriend gave me a kiss....ah what a great day!
Thanks for looking! gg
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