Digger_O'Dell
06-18-2016, 09:08 AM
Hi all,
On a 3 day hunting trip with my girl down to Illinois where I had hoped to find some areas that weren't cleaned out already. Figured if I went rural enough there might be a chance of hitting silver again.
Well, as it turns out I wasn't completely wrong. The first site was a little town of 250 maybe that dates back to the mid 1800s. Nice little park, but turned out to be void of anything but a few clad and pull tabs. Then it was off to the main town I was hoping to do much better in. Well, the fairgrounds were apparently hit hard, also only giving up a few clad. There wasn't even trash! Later we hit the one old park that I hoped would turn up something. Well, I wasn't 10 feet into it when I got a shallow 12-43, but decided to dig the penny signal expecting to see the usual zincoln. But about 4 inches down I see a silver rim. Pull it out and was amazed to see a silver dime. Not any dime, buy an 1853 seated! Banged up and worn, but still my first ever seated! The day ended with one more silver Washington.
Off to a couple new sites Saturday, hoping to continue the trend.
54790
On a 3 day hunting trip with my girl down to Illinois where I had hoped to find some areas that weren't cleaned out already. Figured if I went rural enough there might be a chance of hitting silver again.
Well, as it turns out I wasn't completely wrong. The first site was a little town of 250 maybe that dates back to the mid 1800s. Nice little park, but turned out to be void of anything but a few clad and pull tabs. Then it was off to the main town I was hoping to do much better in. Well, the fairgrounds were apparently hit hard, also only giving up a few clad. There wasn't even trash! Later we hit the one old park that I hoped would turn up something. Well, I wasn't 10 feet into it when I got a shallow 12-43, but decided to dig the penny signal expecting to see the usual zincoln. But about 4 inches down I see a silver rim. Pull it out and was amazed to see a silver dime. Not any dime, buy an 1853 seated! Banged up and worn, but still my first ever seated! The day ended with one more silver Washington.
Off to a couple new sites Saturday, hoping to continue the trend.
54790