not black-friday, it was SILVER friday!

[Jason in Enid]

I refuse to participate in the crass commercialism known as "black Friday", so I went out detecting instead. Went back to the location where i pulled that immaculate Standing Liberty Quarter. Just like last time, it was a very slow start but it ended great!

I dug a half dozen wheaties, 3 Indian Heads, 5 silver dimes and silver ring set with either garnet or rubies. The greatest find was my very last target. It came in with a VDI jumping from a wheat cent to and IH. When I dug, I saw the edge of silver in the dirt pile. Upon inspection it was a stack of coins. An Indian, a Wheat, and a Barber dime! I would have gotten the full dig recorded but the memory of my PivotHead glasses was full.

 

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[pong12211]

Wow that's a spectacular day of digging in my opinion. Congrats on the success and thanks for sharing.

 

[Argentium]

What a wonderful bunch of finds ! I dream of a day like that .

 

[g-olden years]

Splendid day! Andi

 

[beez0404]

I've never had a great day like that but dream about it a LOT! Congratulations on a wonderful hunt.

 

[treblehunter]

Very cool exciting spill, congrats on a great hunt. I'd be grinning from ear to ear.

I found a great spill my first summer, it is wild how the other coins/metal make electrolysis and leech color into each other from being together like that. I remember I kept trying to clean them with no success (there were still colors on each coin) Then last summer while lake hunting I started fooling around with a electrolysis setup, zapping my coins for a minute at a time and then using baking soda paste until I cleaned off the black tarnish. I pulled out the discolored coins from my coin spill and zapped them thirty seconds at a time and cleaned them up to where there were no weird colors and the silver was like new. Of course I like my silver to shine, may not be everyone's preference.

 

[cjon455]

Heck with the hustle and bustle of black Friday shopping, you did some shopping of your own, silver shopping!! Now that's a great day

 

[Zodiacdiverdave]

I agree with cjon455, you put your time to much better use then putting up with the madness of BF. Well done, Congrats
ZDD

 

[doninbrewster]

Nice finds. Always like Indians and Barbers's. Bit jealous as I can see you have grass and dirt instead of snow and ice. I'm going out to detect in about 2 hours about 30 miles south of here where there is no snow cover. It is getting a bit cold.

 

[fistfulladirt]

Nice haul!

I went to see a fight, a Black Friday broke out -

 

[park pirate]

Silver always makes for a successful hunt nice job...

 

[Higgy]

What a great day of detecting. Most I ever got all summer long was one silver in a single hunt. If I ever pulled even two out of the soil, I'd be flabbergasted.

Yep. Its a sweltering 14F here in my region of NH. Ground is fetched up solid, so all I can do is dream of treasure and live vicariously through you folks who live in more temperate areas.

 

[Ahab8]

Great hunt Jason! BF is the most ridiculous thing! At least here in Maine they don't allow any stores to be open on Thanksgiving day. But the chaos starts at midnight

 

[Trezurehunter]

Looks like one great outing.

 

[Jason in Enid]

Thank you everyone for the kind words, I wish I could make finds this every hunt! I was certainly smiling big when I dug every single coin, I was in shock at the coin spill. I know others have found much better spills, but this is the first spill I have ever dug like this. If I remember the dates right, the IH was a 1907, the Wheaty was a 1919 and the Barer was a 1913.

..... it is wild how the other coins/metal make electrolysis and leech color into each other from being together like that. .....

Yes, that is strange. The way the coin spill is laying in the picture is the order they were stacked in the ground. The green face of the silver coin was facing outward for the past 90+ years in the ground. Most of my silver comes out of the ground shiny enough, I am going to leave the copper leaching as a reminder of exactly which coin dig this was from.

 

[Rich in Central PA]

A "Silver" Friday indeed! You had a great day, congrats.......Rich

 

[marinemike72]

Very Nice...is your heart still beating fast? Mine always does even after 35 years of hunting when I find SILVER....Happy Hunting!!!!

 

[Jason in Enid]

Nice finds. Always like Indians and Barbers's. Bit jealous as I can see you have grass and dirt instead of snow and ice. I'm going out to detect in about 2 hours about 30 miles south of here where there is no snow cover. It is getting a bit cold.
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I am always glad that we have much shorter and milder winters down here. I feel bad for all the hunters up north who are already snowed in and have frozen ground!

 

[Ahab8]

I am always glad that we have much shorter and milder winters down here. I feel bad for all the hunters up north who are already snowed in and have frozen ground!

It really is a killer! We got hammered with snow and now it's 20 degrees. I'm going out tomorrow to a spot close to the salt water. The ocean keeps things warmer along the coast. The wind sucks but I don't care lol. It's certainly a trade off. We can dig some amazing very early coins and relics but we lose 4 months every year.

 

[fistfulladirt]

I am always glad that we have much shorter and milder winters down here. I feel bad for all the hunters up north who are already snowed in and have frozen ground!

It's averaged in the teens and low 20's here for a few weeks, but the ground is still soft - was out in the a.m. yesterday, 24 degrees.