Weekend Hunts: Silver, IHC & A Spanking

[Carolina Tom]

I hooked up with Todd Lipe (of TNet fame) over the weekend for a couple of hunts. He spanked me, as his thread shows, but I aint complaining because I was able to pick up a couple of scraps that he was not interested in finding.

Saturday
We hit a couple of different places. I struggled along for most of the day with meager finds in the pouch. I did stumble across a 1928 Ecuadorian silver coin, 5 grams of .720 silver. It was badly tarnished when recovered, but had a bit of silver showing, so I knew it must be good. I used the "Hillbilly Zapper" to knock the tarnish off. On the reverse it says "Phila. USA", it was made in the Philly mint for circulation in Ecuador. I was also able to score three Wheaties.

Sunday
I met Todd early and we went to a 1950s house, at 8:30AM, I got a Merc in the front yard. NICE. After we hit the house, we proceeded to Todd's honey hole. I got a sweet green 1898 IHC, a slightly green 1918 Lincoln and a '46 Rosie. Total wheat count for the day was 15... plus a "Junior Police" badge.

I had a really nice time, and owe a hardy 'thanks' to Todd for putting me on the treasure.

Silver coins #55, #56 & #57 YTD.
Thanks for looking & best of luck to you!

 

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[pong12211]

Nice finds thanks for sharing.

 

[TokenMan]

CT- Good stuff! Man, I love those green IHC! Screams-look at me!!!

 

[cjon455]

Really cool finds, I've never seen a silver from Ecuador before, great digs!

 

[sold2gold]

Wow, never seen one from Ecuador either... Great finds.!


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[Carolina Tom]

Really cool finds, I've never seen a silver from Ecuador before, great digs!

Thanks Cjon! I was just tooling along and got a nice sounding hit, but the numbers were not what I expected, a bit lower than a quarter, but it sounded just like a coin, so I dug it up. As you can see it was tarnished dark gray, but had just a little silver peeking through here and there, so I was sure that it was silver.

You just never know what you will find. GL&HH!

 

[UnderMiner]

Looks like gold. That's a very strange alloy .72

 

[Old Dude]

Great job Tom. Hope your year is good to you for the rest of it.

 

[Cross Potent]

Nice finds!