Rain chased me away but not before scoring BIG SILVER!

[SilverSleuth]

Hello Treasure Seekers,

Hit my favorite park again tonight. The site that has given up 9 large coppers, several mercs, rosies, a Barber quarter, a dozen IHs, and about 100 wheats. Would have stayed a lot longer but the rain was picking up and I was getting all muddy. After hunting about an hour and finding a few wheat cents I moved to another side of the park and got a signal. Wasn't all that deep and I didn't think much of it. After cutting my plug and probing with the ol' X-1 I loosened a big disc and got a glimpse of silver off the flashlight. I was a little stunned and pulled out a big coin. Wooohoo! It was a 1896 BARBER HALF DOLLAR. My first large silver coin ever! As you can see there was a coin resting on top of it - a wheat. There were 2 more wheats within 6 inches of it also. Found the rosie about a half hour later but had to leave because of the rain.

Can't wait to go back for more! This park is so nice because new coins are scarce. I wonder what I'm missing by only digging all the silver/penny signals?

 

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[phantomfinder]

CONGRATS ON THE BIG SILVER , WTG ..... And the photo's great also...

 

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[The Buzzard King]

VERY sweet coin!
Congrats!

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Gratz on a great first !! WTG

Keep @ it and HH!!

 

[camb1]

Great job on scoring large and small silver. WTG

 

[mrs.oroblanco]

Great finds!!!!!

I wish I was being chased away by rain - instead of the 20 below 0 that's been keeping me close to the fire!


B

 

[Jack_MIghtyheart]

Sweet Barber! Dig all those signals and find some more!

HH

 

[Argentium]

Hey - Great finds ! Just curious - What date was on the wheatie that was on top of the half- It

can give some insight as to when the spill happened , although not precisely. Thanks Argentium.