Surprise Silver In My Own Yard

Fingerlakes119 · Apr 2, 2015

Tonight, after a unsuccessful hunt after work, I decided to pull out the Etrac and scan my own yard again. I have a rather small 1920s property and a lot of the areas where you would find things are now covered with blacktop or cement. I have tried various detectors and various coils over the years, but I have never found any silver in my own yard, until tonight. There are normally zero signals. I have dug them all. Tonight I got an iffy 11-45 on the Etrac I was thinking memorial cent, boy was I surprised to see the silver edge of a 1897 Barber dime. It was only down about 4-5 inched but covered by smaller tree roots. Sorry the photo is upside down.

George

Slingshot · Apr 2, 2015

There's no place like home! Cheers!!

Lori999 · Apr 2, 2015

Very cool my first silver dime was in my own yard too

wlb42 · Apr 2, 2015

Nice find......I hope you don't mind, I turned your picture right side up, and cropped it a little, so I hope this works.

HH
Bill

cjon455 · Apr 2, 2015

Awesome find for your yard!!, I too have a 1920s house with a pretty big yard, I got 3 silvers, 1 merc,roosie, and a pin, plus about 15 wheats, 2 indians, and a v nickel, I can't find a signal in my yard now to save my life

Great find!

oldsurfer · Apr 2, 2015

Home sweet home! :icon_thumleft:

I-DIG-IT · Apr 3, 2015

Nice digs.

Lori999 · Apr 3, 2015

cjon455 said:
Awesome find for your yard!!, I too have a 1920s house with a pretty big yard, I got 3 silvers, 1 merc,roosie, and a pin, plus about 15 wheats, 2 indians, and a v nickel, I can't find a signal in my yard now to save my life

Great find!

Lol I thought I was the only one out in my yard constantly. My house was built 112 yrs ago, still pulling cool stuff.

Dr. Witty · Apr 3, 2015

I have a tiny 1920's yard here in Syracuse. I haven't tried that yet, maybe this Saturday. I'd love to find one of those. I sure wish the newly minted coins were as beautiful as those old ones. Great find!