Silver nickel, dimes, quarter and finally a Franklin

[daytondigger]

The old pinic grounds I've been detecting this year never seems to run out of finds. I was hitting up an area I skipped a while back after digging memorials and clad at 5 inches. It was a fairly large area and deserved more time. Right off the bat I was digging wheats. I dug three nickels, including a war nickel in the same hole. Two of the nickels were fifties dates and many of the wheats were late forties through the fifties. I started thinking this area would be prime area to locate my first Franklin half. I've been detecting for 25 plus years and have found several Barbers and Walkers, but no Franklins. So far this site has given up a nice Walker and a 64 Kennedy. I was digging silver Roosies, mercs, tons of wheats, a couple injuns, a buffalo nickel a lot of clad. Finally I dug a nice sounding target and about 4 inches down I spied a nice large silver edge. I thought for a brief moment that I'd be disappointed if it was a Walker......yeah right! Well, there it was, my first Franklin. A nice 1954-D half. Soon after I dug a nice sterling ring and a pendant with a 20's or 30's type car. I decided I should leave, but was hoping for a silver quarter. On the way back to the car I dug deep into some tree roots and scored a 1941-D quarter.

 

[MrBling]

Fantastic haul

 

[DANGLANGLEY]

Congrats on your first Franklin. Looks like you had a spectacular day. It's been many years since I had a day like that. It sure is encouraging to see someone have a great day like you did. It reassures us all that there's got to be more great days for us all if we just hang in there. Thanks for sharing.

DANGLANGLEY

 

[silverfreak]

Congrats on all that silver Double D That's some good huntin'

 

[camb1]

WTG on some great finds.

 

[JerV3]

Nice finds man,

That grove is a great site. I had a grove like that a few yrs back. Thousands of old coins man. It still produces till this day. It would give up 10 indians per trip. This grove was very old. I'm working on finding another one loaded out there. They are still there.

Congrats on the frank. No half is easy to find. I'm still waiting on a seated half. Hard to get back that far in history with all the developement nowadays.

HH Jer

 

[mpostma]

Nice finds!
Mr. Franklin is still on my list too.
Way to go on the site. Research research research, then go get dirty!

Good Luck!
Mark

 

[kimsdad]

Fantastic hunt, DD!!

That would keep me happy for quite a while!

 

[Jack_MIghtyheart]

Wow, lots of silvers! I'm still looking for my first

 

[Curious The George]

Great finds. If it hasn't rained there lately be sure and recheck that same area when you get rain or a snow melt.

 

[daytondigger]

Great finds , WTG

Thanks

 

[daytondigger]

Fantastic haul

Thanks, it's an hour away, but I drive there often.

 

[daytondigger]

Congrats on your first Franklin. Looks like you had a spectacular day. It's been many years since I had a day like that. It sure is encouraging to see someone have a great day like you did. It reassures us all that there's got to be more great days for us all if we just hang in there. Thanks for sharing.

DANGLANGLEY

Thanks, If I were you I'd check out the New River area. There was a Koka Nola bottling plant there (valuable bottles) and I saw pics of people picnicing and canoeing on the creek that comes in there (forget the name). Mining camps, sorry we couldn't get together for that. Check out Wilder and Zenith. Good luck
Thanks again, Steve

 

[daytondigger]

Congrats on all that silver Double D That's some good huntin'

Thanks man, I only have to dig 4 or 5 inches for my coins.

 

[daytondigger]

WTG on some great finds.
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I was happy to finally find a Franklin, not to mention all the other great coins.
Thanks, Steve

 

[texan connection]

Great hunt for sure

 

[daytondigger]

Nice finds man,

That grove is a great site. I had a grove like that a few yrs back. Thousands of old coins man. It still produces till this day. It would give up 10 indians per trip. This grove was very old. I'm working on finding another one loaded out there. They are still there.

Congrats on the frank. No half is easy to find. I'm still waiting on a seated half. Hard to get back that far in history with all the developement nowadays.

HH Jer

This picnic area started right at 1900, I wish it was one of the older groves. I've hunted some of those after they were handed down to me from other detectorists who said they were cleaned out and still scored some nice finds. I'm trying to pinpoint an old grove right now that should be sweet. The only info I have is that it was 4 miles west of town. That are is all farm land now, so it's promising.
Thanks, Steve

 

[daytondigger]

Way to go on the site. Research research research, then go get dirty!

Good Luck!
Mark

I like it. Thanks

 

[Nana40]

Would ya just look at all that silver! SUPER hunt, Dayton! Congrats on that first!

Nana

 

[daytondigger]

Fantastic hunt, DD!!

That would keep me happy for quite a while!

Yeah, I'm happy to have had such a good hunt as it may be the last of the year.
Thanks, Steve

 

[Bertman]

Nice digs DD!!!! I sure would be happy to find that amount of Silver in one hunt... Congrats :P

HH Robert