Ricardo_NY1
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I had some time today to hunt, and off I went to the park hoping to get one or two good coins. I wanted one to make up for the blunder I committed yesterday in giving my buddy Tom a silver count figure that was off by one too many. I left him a PM last night telling him that I was accounting for the one I'd go out and get today! 
Anyhow, I initiated the hunt in a picnic area where it is trashy and there is tons of clad. The tactic in mind was some slow detecting and cherry picking the signals, aiming to invest in digging only the deeper ones. Considering the amount of clad in there, it is really the only way to avoid tearing up the park and your body. This didn't stop my hand from developing blisters but everything panned out well.
I knew there was silver in this area because it's the place where I found my first silver coin, a Washington Quarter. A few minutes into the hunt, I managed a nice deep signal that turned out a mercury dime at a not so deep depth. I attribute the deep readings that do not turn out deep to the dry ground conditions today. Moving on, the silver dimes were coming out. I was not straying from the deeper signal rule unless it was a quarter reading. I almost never pass up a quarter. I like clad too. Later down the road, and for the eighth and last coin of the day, a canadian silver dime (1956) appeared. Knowing nothing about them, and because the smartscreen was nowhere near a dime, I had to look it up online to make sure it is silver, which it is (80%).
Bryce, Dan and the other silver hounds.........would you count this to your total silver finds? I'm inclined to.
I managed to capture at least three, (I believe four) of these dimes on video, so I'll be spending the next few hours putting everything together. It'll be up soon. Photos enclosed.
Anyhow, I initiated the hunt in a picnic area where it is trashy and there is tons of clad. The tactic in mind was some slow detecting and cherry picking the signals, aiming to invest in digging only the deeper ones. Considering the amount of clad in there, it is really the only way to avoid tearing up the park and your body. This didn't stop my hand from developing blisters but everything panned out well.
I knew there was silver in this area because it's the place where I found my first silver coin, a Washington Quarter. A few minutes into the hunt, I managed a nice deep signal that turned out a mercury dime at a not so deep depth. I attribute the deep readings that do not turn out deep to the dry ground conditions today. Moving on, the silver dimes were coming out. I was not straying from the deeper signal rule unless it was a quarter reading. I almost never pass up a quarter. I like clad too. Later down the road, and for the eighth and last coin of the day, a canadian silver dime (1956) appeared. Knowing nothing about them, and because the smartscreen was nowhere near a dime, I had to look it up online to make sure it is silver, which it is (80%).
Bryce, Dan and the other silver hounds.........would you count this to your total silver finds? I'm inclined to.
I managed to capture at least three, (I believe four) of these dimes on video, so I'll be spending the next few hours putting everything together. It'll be up soon. Photos enclosed.
[youtube=425,350]3RZpT2rvLTE[/youtube]
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