Full Metal Digger
05-31-2014, 06:52 PM
Hey diggers,
I was driving around looking to do some door knocking and happened upon a 1890 home I been wanted to detect for quite some time now. The owner was outside and after talking for a few minutes he gave me the go-ahead to search. I started in the front and started finding some modern coins. The home owner was so excited to see what I was finding he was washing the coins for me! He brought out a bucket of water and soap and a toothbrush and was scrubbing those clads for me! What service!
After about 20 minutes I got a nice solid 12-44 at 8 inches deep and popped out a nice looking Barber dime. I could tell it was in VERY good shape so I didn't even try to look at it. My next deep signal was a mid-tone (kind of a scratchy pull-tab) signal about 7 inches deep. I told the home owner it was either a gold ring, a nickel, or a really deep piece of junk. I dug out the dirt and was happy to see a nickel size coin. It is almost a smoothie but I could tell right away by its slightly smaller diameter that it was a shield nickel. My second ever!
After about an hour I got a nice strong signal down deep and found an old token. He took it to clean it up and the next thing I know he has his tablet out and has Googled the writing on the token and actually found it listed in a token catalog as a 1914 saloon token!
By now 2 hours have gone by and my back was killing me. I was ready to leave and he says "did you try the back corner by the alley?" I didn't have much hope anything would be there but I started swinging my coil and immediately got a silver signal about 6 inches deep. It was very scratchy and the display was showing junk numbers but the sound in my ears was silver. I dug down and was very happy to see the rim of a silver quarter in the dirt. What a shock. I closed the plug and right next to it got another silver signal at the same depth. I told him "It's another silver." Out comes a 1946 dime. I closed that plug and got another silver signal next to that plug at the same depth!! Out came a 1941 dime! My third silver spill in 3 weeks! I ended up finding 2 more silver dimes (rosie and a merc) and a 1919 wheat cent (all in the back corner where I didn't have much hope)! Lesson learned!
The home owners (David and Peggy) were just the nicest people you ever want to meet. David was showing me some of his arrowhead collection and Peggy introduced me to all her parrots! Here's some pics. Thanks for looking and HH, Dave.
P.S. Check out the amazing condition of the Barber Dime. It has full mint luster on both sides. What do you grade it as?
I was driving around looking to do some door knocking and happened upon a 1890 home I been wanted to detect for quite some time now. The owner was outside and after talking for a few minutes he gave me the go-ahead to search. I started in the front and started finding some modern coins. The home owner was so excited to see what I was finding he was washing the coins for me! He brought out a bucket of water and soap and a toothbrush and was scrubbing those clads for me! What service!
After about 20 minutes I got a nice solid 12-44 at 8 inches deep and popped out a nice looking Barber dime. I could tell it was in VERY good shape so I didn't even try to look at it. My next deep signal was a mid-tone (kind of a scratchy pull-tab) signal about 7 inches deep. I told the home owner it was either a gold ring, a nickel, or a really deep piece of junk. I dug out the dirt and was happy to see a nickel size coin. It is almost a smoothie but I could tell right away by its slightly smaller diameter that it was a shield nickel. My second ever!
After about an hour I got a nice strong signal down deep and found an old token. He took it to clean it up and the next thing I know he has his tablet out and has Googled the writing on the token and actually found it listed in a token catalog as a 1914 saloon token!
By now 2 hours have gone by and my back was killing me. I was ready to leave and he says "did you try the back corner by the alley?" I didn't have much hope anything would be there but I started swinging my coil and immediately got a silver signal about 6 inches deep. It was very scratchy and the display was showing junk numbers but the sound in my ears was silver. I dug down and was very happy to see the rim of a silver quarter in the dirt. What a shock. I closed the plug and right next to it got another silver signal at the same depth. I told him "It's another silver." Out comes a 1946 dime. I closed that plug and got another silver signal next to that plug at the same depth!! Out came a 1941 dime! My third silver spill in 3 weeks! I ended up finding 2 more silver dimes (rosie and a merc) and a 1919 wheat cent (all in the back corner where I didn't have much hope)! Lesson learned!
The home owners (David and Peggy) were just the nicest people you ever want to meet. David was showing me some of his arrowhead collection and Peggy introduced me to all her parrots! Here's some pics. Thanks for looking and HH, Dave.
P.S. Check out the amazing condition of the Barber Dime. It has full mint luster on both sides. What do you grade it as?