Silver schoolyard #1 gives up its fifth silver coin

[Ray in CA]

I didn't get to post this last night since I got home around dusk, but I went back for about an hour to the first schoolyard where I had already found one silver Washington quarter, one Merc, a Rosie and a war nickel in a small corner of the field. I reasoned that there just might be other silver coins hiding in the rest of the field, which is about 200 yards long total, but I didn't quite know for sure if the field had been as large back in the old days as it is today.

So off I went toward the other end and. After finding a 1948 Canadian penny, I thought to myself this either means there are other old coins on this side as well, or some kid just lost a coin from his collection. Kept on searching and found a 1979 Canadian penny, which had me worried for a spell that I was wasting my time until I nailed the 1943S war nickel.

The nickel was around 8" deep, and the Safari didn't have a problem hearing it at all. I am continually affirming to myself that using a lower sensitivity setting doesn't seem to hurt the Safari's ability to hear deep targets. In fact, a large number of the targets that I've been digging lately fall within the 7 to 10 inch range.

HH,

Ray

 

[savant365]

Nice coin I have dug 1 shield nickle and several newer ones but the silver, V's and buffalos have been eluding me for almost 2 years now. Maybe someday...

HH Charlie

 

[Ray in CA]

Well hang in there, Charlie. Your Ace 250 will find silver coins in time, you just gotta get the coil over one is all. I'm sure there are plenty of places where you can snag old silver in Missouri. I've never been farther than Texas myself, but one of these days I would love to take a trip back east and do some detecting.

Ray

 

[savant365]

I have found a few silver, all 20th century though. I don't get out that much but that is going to change over the next few weeks so hopefully I will get some 1800's silver. I want to go east and dig some civil war items though, this part of the state didn't see very much activity and there were no battles near me so it's pretty rare to find war related relics here.

HH Charlie

 

[allen]

good going on that nice war nickel !!!

 

[Nana40]

Congrats on those finds, Ray. With a field that size, you may be hunting that site for a while!

Nana

 

[garthbfan169]

Nice war nickel Ray WTG

 

[crazyjarhead]

WTG Ray on another silver coin.

 

[hunterken]

Sounds like you have the safari dialed in, go get em...

 

[silverfreak]

Nice find Ray.

 

[Monty]

Nicd finds Ray! We have a lot in common. Same detectors and I got my Safari about the same time you got yours. My daughter use to live just N. of Seattle and I hunted a few parks and a seashore up in that area a couple of years ago. I've had so dang many health problems lately I haven't been able to hunt much but I think I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I hope it's not the light people see when they are ready to meet their maker! Keep it up! Monty

 

[olekyground]

Gotta love pullin a silver nickel out of a hole! GOOD WORK!!