Silver dry spell ended yesterday

[tnt-hunter]

I have been busy and haven’t gotten out as often as I would like, but when I have been out it has been lots of clad for the most part and almost nothing interesting.

It has been penny heavy again. The other day I was out for 4.5 hours on campus and dug 188 coins with a face value of $6.55 and 150 of the coins were pennies. There was one real crust wheat penny that turned out to be a 1919 and an old oval pin that looks like it came from the original farm, but nothing special.

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I was beginning to get discouraged. Then yesterday I went back to the college and picked a spot to grid. I worked carefully and was lucky enough to only find 25 pennies in my 66 coins which was a better day and totaled $5.95. When I finished my grid I decided to do a quick walk over some uncovered areas. I got a nice high tone, dug the plug, pinpointed, broke the plug apart and I saw shiny and thought YES SILVER! I took a closer look and realized it was a Canadian dime and thought darn just a shiny Canadian (the newer ones frequently come out looking shiny like silver, but they are not). When I got home I looked it up just to be sure and surprise surprise it was a 1968 which is 50% silver so I ended my silver dry spell. Not a great find, but any silver will do. (Special note, the 1968 Canadian dimes were silver early in the year and later they switch to nickel and the dimes are magnetic. Mine is not magnetic so it is an early one. Yeah!)

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Still having fun digging the gas money and hoping for the good stuff. Who knows what the next plug will bring. Thanks for looking and may your coil lead you to good things.

 

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[Finder Bear]

Nice finds. All that clad can add up quick. I paid for my first detector, an Ace 250 in a year on the tot lots digging nothing but clad lol! Congrats!

 

[tnt-hunter]

Thanks Finder Bear. You’re right it does all add up, but it would add up so much quicker if those pennies were nickels or dimes. �� Also a lot of the pennies are cruddy zinc pennies and they are in such bad shape the banks won’t take them.

Thanks again and keep swingin.

 

[Javadroid]

That's a lot of digging - good on you for staying at it! And your silver is a fine looking piece and congrats to ya on it!

 

[A2coins]

Always gives you a boost finding silver gotta get that fix. Good job

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice finds and post!

 

[Louie D]

Good hunts. With your work effort big things are in the near future.