Silver from the Old Colonial Road !!!!!

[vpone]

Hello All,

Vp here, I headed out to one of my favorite sites, the old Colonial Road. I saw Mrs. land owner on the way in and stopped and talked a bit. They had just plowed the fields I normally detect and I wanted to make sure it was ok to be on the land. She said they also just fertilized so it wouldn't be a good idea but i was more than welcome to detect the land that wasn't plowed yet, she pointed out a few fields. I thanked her and went on my way.

Now I hunted for about an hour finding very little when all of the sudden out in the very middle of the field, hundreds of yards from anything, I got a nice dime sound on my SE. I of course dug it and much to my surprise out popped a mercury dime, i thought OK this is cool, weird but cool ... here i am in the middle of a colonial site and i got a mercury dime ? No problem i will take it !

I focused on this area and about 5 minutes later got a perfect 00 29 sound, I dug it and out came a 1935 washington quarter! ... now grinning ear to ear i continued to detect ... a little later another dime sound that was kinda 'iffy came along, i dug the dirt out and the sound got much better, i'm thinking ok maybe another dime ? boy was i wrong ... i found the silver disc in the hole with my probe, grabbed it quick and as soon as i did, thought much too thin for a dime ... i got super excited 'cause i knew EXACTLY what i had ... a 1/2 REALE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


MY VERY FIRST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so after yelling and jumping a bit I calmed myself down and continued on - i started digging anything that even gave a whisper of being a coin ... i dug a few piece of can slaw and then about 10 minutes later got a weird tone, jumping back and forth all over the place ... i dug it and as soon as i got some dirt out of the hole, the signal turned to a 00 29 - a quarter, i frantically searched the hole and pulled a standing liberty quarter !!!!!!!! i re-checked the dirt pile and pulled a jefferson nickel (not shown)

the SLQ is again another first !!!!!!

pumped up now, the dirt started flying i dug EVERYTHING - coin sound or not .... i dug it !
after about 35 minutes with nothign else to show, i was about ready to pack it in and start the long walk back to the car (this site is HUGE) suddenly i got an on/off signal that was deep, it read 00 29 and then when i went back over it, nothing ... again very strange
i dug and dug - got frustrated at one point and and threw all the dirt back in the hole and then decided better of it and redug it all back out, long story short - i pulled this 1920-D walking liberty half dollar from about 10+ inches !!!!

my 3rd FIRST of the day !!!!!!!!!!!

whew - i was P U M P E D, it's three hours later and i am STILL PUMPED UP HERE !!!! i tried Paco about a hudnred times at work and never did get him

now the moral of the story here is that not everything has a rhyme or reason to it, i was out in the middle of this field, not a single thing around except corn stalks, no iron signals, no pottery ... soooo why all the coins there ? the reale was obviously from the colonial road but all the other ones very weird !

also i found the kids gun on the way back to the car, the other item in the picture is a large piece of lead (very heavy) that i found the other day in a field close to this one, after talking with Paco, we feel it might have been carried by a colonial person and used to make his lead musketballs - i really can't think of a reason Mr. Farmer would have had it out in the field ... any experts care to comment on this item ?


Thanks for looking (and sorry for the long story !)

vp

 

[Captn SE]

Wow, how did I miss this post!!

Kevin, what a fantastic day you had, and a couple of firsts too.

All of the parks that I have been detecting at were given up long ago by md'ers from the 80's, with an occasional hunter here and there over the past 20 or so years. Recently, they have been pounded by hunters with newer, hi-tech machines, and are producing now like they are virgin sites. No place is ever hunted out.

I have been invited to hunt sites that my buddies have found silver/oldies at. I always thank them for showing me the site, tell them whenever I find silver/oldies there, and hope that I can find a new site to share with them. Most of these sites are public parks. We have so many of them here. As for private sites, I never go to them unless I've been invited by the original finder of the site.

Congrats for having so much patience and persistence. That's what produced such a great day for you....On second thought, your SE was no slouch either...

Yes, let's see a close up of that Reale.

HH,
CAPTN SE
Dan

 

[CanUDigIt]

Totally awesome Kevin! Congrats bud!

 

[bootstrap vinn]

Congrats Vpone that was quite a day!!! Always nice to get those firsts out of the way.Keep doing what your doing and keep the discrimination low and I have no doubt you'll be posting a gold coin soon.Your putting yourself in the old places and diggin those just barely sigs so your well on your way.Also don't disregard those overload sigs,as BB can attest to,they can also be very rewarding.Best of luck for the rest of the season and I hope you guys can straighten out your differences,keep a cool head big man,Bootstrap

 

[Colonial KirkPA]

Kevin,

Hey, man, I would love to see a close-up of the Spanish coin (front/back). I am glad someone got a nice wilver coin off that farm. All the other Colonial-era coins are usually corroded coppas, so you definitely hit the jackpot! Keep swinging!

Kirk

 

[Ricardo_NY1]

Silver Grand Slam! Wow! Congratulations on that line up!

 

[jimmatt_43]

Nice digs.