New spot pays off...the Lady is walking!!!

Ray in CA · Apr 3, 2010

Hey folks!

This morning I went out for a short 1 hour hunt at a new spot. It's a school located in a very old town dating back to 1863. I didn't know if I would find anything in the school yard but decided it was worthy a try. My first find was the small silver ring down about two inches. It's the twin sister of a small gold ring a buddy of mine found the other day when we were detecting at a park. It only rang up as +16 on the Safari. I thought "pull tab" but dug anyway. Glad I did.

After not finding much else of interest, I proceeded off the school yard and into the brush. Right next to a medium sized oak tree I got a nice signal on the Safari, ringing up at +38. From the sound of it I was expecting a quarter. Both clad and silver quarters have a distinct sound on the Safari and are very similar, so I was expecting either one but thought it would probably turn out clad. To my surprise I saw the silver disc peeking through the dirt, and then the eagle, and I KNEW I had a Walking Liberty half dollar!!! My first in over ten years of detecting. Never thought I would get one! The year is 1934. I let out a holler and thanked the Lord and decided it was time to head home.

HH,

Ray

Chug And Red · Apr 3, 2010

What a nice lady, she has been waiting a long time for You to find Her!!!!!!! congrats!!!
Now go and find her sister!!! :laughing9:

HH Chug

Cal_Cobra · Apr 3, 2010

Very nice find Ray :headbang:

After two years I finally found my first one, then #2 & #3 came the following month, I'd never had dreamed that. Funny thing is, one of the senior members in our MD club told me at the last club meeting that silver half dollars were easy to find, you just have to hunt where nobody else had hunted yet :tongue3:

I would pound that area in the brush, must be plenty more where that came from (gotta be some SLQ's hiding there righ :icon_scratch:

).

HH,
Brian

MUD(S.W.A.T) · Apr 3, 2010

I found one of those knot wire silver rings.

Yours is nicer than mine its shaped mines just wire. :dontknow:

I never found a walker though. :icon_scratch:

Great hunting !! :icon_thumleft:

Keep @ it and HH !!

jbr13 · Apr 3, 2010

Very nice find Ray! I look forward to getting my first finds like that!

Jason

washingtonian · Apr 3, 2010

I can't wait to find one of those! Thats a great find

Ray in CA · Apr 3, 2010

Thanks everyone!

Chug, yes I figure she's been in circulation a few years before she was dropped, but even so that would have been around 70 years ago. When I find old silver I love to contemplate just who was the last one to have their hands on it and what they were doing when they lost it.

Ray