Not one...but two silver Franklin's on one hunt!!!
I Found these last Tuesday killing time at a park near the DMV while waiting to renew my drivers license...a 9.5 hour process.
Luckily, I was able to get text messages on my phone letting me know about my place in line so I had plenty of time to do laundry, some other chores and then get in a little hunt time.
I went out of town right after I found these and didn't get back till today so here is the story.
I was hunting around a modern picnic pavilion with my F2 and the sniper coil.
This is an older park built in the 20's with a nice fishing lake in the middle and also a site that used to have a country club many decades ago.
I have been here before, and I have hunted several areas looking for the site where the country club stood and the members hung out without having much luck, so far.
This area was hunted by myself recently with my Vaq and a large DD coil, but not in the front of this pavilion.
This hunt was truly about killing time, I was not expecting much of anything except clad, and hoping for nothing else but maybe a ring or two.
I was in the trash, digging a few modern clad coins and some of the more solid tab and trash signals when I came across and unusully high tone/high number signal on the F2.
A 89-92 with a few jumps to lower numbers, too, but solid enough to dig.
I zeroed in with the Propointer, opened a small hole and saw the edge of a big piece of silver with a reeded edge.
I hate the quality of my phone camera, but I whipped it out and got the rest of the recovery on film.
A beautiful Franklin half, and a great specimen at that!
I was in shock, it was only about an inch deep.
I also dug a fishing weight about an inch away from this coin so that what was giving me that lower signal jump.
I use the sniper coils most of the time just for situations like this.
I was flying High, except for a few Mercs and Rosies I have never dug any other silver coin in my career because I have been concentrating on becoming a great jewelry hunter for the most part since I started in this hobby.
This was a surprise and a thrill, and not 10 minutes later it happened again!
Close to the area of the first I got another 91-92 signal on the F2, pulled out the camera again, and well, you can see the outcome and my excitement in the vid.
From what I can gather these Franklins seem to be a rarer find than even Walkers and Barbers, and I do notice way less of these posted by most hunters than those older coins.
One veteran has a theory that this is true because these were still pretty shallow when the first detectors came out and most all of those old technology detectors could find them easily and so most were scooped up long ago.
Today's detectors are now able to find those older coins that were out of reach of lots of those early detectors so that is why we see more of them in posts today.
Sounds like a good theory to me, but these were so shallow I think I also might have found a small site in this park that might not have ever been hunted before even though it is old and public.
Whatever the reason I am thrilled that I found these, I now have silver fever and I guess it is time to start making an effort to find more.
This really was a hunt that was all about just killing time.
Who knew that this would turn out to be one of the best hunts of my life!
I Found these last Tuesday killing time at a park near the DMV while waiting to renew my drivers license...a 9.5 hour process.
Luckily, I was able to get text messages on my phone letting me know about my place in line so I had plenty of time to do laundry, some other chores and then get in a little hunt time.
I went out of town right after I found these and didn't get back till today so here is the story.
I was hunting around a modern picnic pavilion with my F2 and the sniper coil.
This is an older park built in the 20's with a nice fishing lake in the middle and also a site that used to have a country club many decades ago.
I have been here before, and I have hunted several areas looking for the site where the country club stood and the members hung out without having much luck, so far.
This area was hunted by myself recently with my Vaq and a large DD coil, but not in the front of this pavilion.
This hunt was truly about killing time, I was not expecting much of anything except clad, and hoping for nothing else but maybe a ring or two.
I was in the trash, digging a few modern clad coins and some of the more solid tab and trash signals when I came across and unusully high tone/high number signal on the F2.
A 89-92 with a few jumps to lower numbers, too, but solid enough to dig.
I zeroed in with the Propointer, opened a small hole and saw the edge of a big piece of silver with a reeded edge.
I hate the quality of my phone camera, but I whipped it out and got the rest of the recovery on film.
A beautiful Franklin half, and a great specimen at that!
I was in shock, it was only about an inch deep.
I also dug a fishing weight about an inch away from this coin so that what was giving me that lower signal jump.
I use the sniper coils most of the time just for situations like this.
I was flying High, except for a few Mercs and Rosies I have never dug any other silver coin in my career because I have been concentrating on becoming a great jewelry hunter for the most part since I started in this hobby.
This was a surprise and a thrill, and not 10 minutes later it happened again!
Close to the area of the first I got another 91-92 signal on the F2, pulled out the camera again, and well, you can see the outcome and my excitement in the vid.
From what I can gather these Franklins seem to be a rarer find than even Walkers and Barbers, and I do notice way less of these posted by most hunters than those older coins.
One veteran has a theory that this is true because these were still pretty shallow when the first detectors came out and most all of those old technology detectors could find them easily and so most were scooped up long ago.
Today's detectors are now able to find those older coins that were out of reach of lots of those early detectors so that is why we see more of them in posts today.
Sounds like a good theory to me, but these were so shallow I think I also might have found a small site in this park that might not have ever been hunted before even though it is old and public.
Whatever the reason I am thrilled that I found these, I now have silver fever and I guess it is time to start making an effort to find more.
This really was a hunt that was all about just killing time.
Who knew that this would turn out to be one of the best hunts of my life!
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