White whale found

[7up2000]

MD'd along a modern bike trail between a large wash and the modern Interstate. Found the silver quarter next to a mesquite root buried about 3". (Weight 6.7g so it's a fat one; one can barely make out the "4" in the third position). Surprised other detectorists hadn't found this one. In 9 years of detecting this is only the 4th Washington Silver I've found. So I consider it my white whale. I'd be interested in hearing others successes/lack of success in finding silver Washingtons.

Before going out, I'd looked at a 1950s map of Tucson and knew the old main road leaving NW Tucson wasn't that far from the large wash(The present day Interstate build I'm sure wiped out a lot of the old artifacts/coins...but my thinking is there must still be some things out there that didn't get disturbed). So I contintue to think back in the day, people get out of their cars to rest, picnic, go to the bathroom, party etc. I even read back in the day they would have Church services outside under the shade of trees!

Also, found arcade token, car wash token, 3 dimes, and, of course, the ubiquitous Lincoln memorials and shields.
Happy hunting now that the weather is getting sunnier.

 

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[E-Trac-Ohio]

Congrats !

A lot of people in this hobby don't find a lot of Silver Washington Quarters.
Standing Liberty Quarters are even tougher to find !

Good Hunting !

 

[Lenrac2]

The silver Washington was my husband's white whale for a couple years and then he found 2 in a week! They aren't very plentiful around here.

 

[Squirrel322]

Silver Washingtons are always an awesome find!

 

[Gare]

Nice finds thanks for sharing

 

[river roamer]

Congrats on your finds

 

[Digger RJ]

MD'd along a modern bike trail between a large wash and the modern Interstate. Found the silver quarter next to a mesquite root buried about 3". (Weight 6.7g so it's a fat one; one can barely make out the "4" in the third position). Surprised other detectorists hadn't found this one. In 9 years of detecting this is only the 4th Washington Silver I've found. So I consider it my white whale. I'd be interested in hearing others successes/lack of success in finding silver Washingtons.

Before going out, I'd looked at a 1950s map of Tucson and knew the old main road leaving NW Tucson wasn't that far from the large wash(The present day Interstate build I'm sure wiped out a lot of the old artifacts/coins...but my thinking is there must still be some things out there that didn't get disturbed). So I contintue to think back in the day, people get out of their cars to rest, picnic, go to the bathroom, party etc. I even read back in the day they would have Church services outside under the shade of trees!

Also, found arcade token, car wash token, 3 dimes, and, of course, the ubiquitous Lincoln memorials and shields.
Happy hunting now that the weather is getting sunnier.

Very Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[oldmxrat]

Great finds, congrats!