My finds of 2013

[JdsCoins]

Full 46 minute video of all my finds is uploaded to my YT channel. =)

Living in Tennessee this year was challenging, because I had to stick to mediocre public properly not having many leads for private permissions (or knowing the area well) But I still made the best of it and had a great time. Moving twice put a dent in my hunting time. I got about 9 silvers before I left PA last January when we had a bit of an indian summer.

Funny that I got 3 big silvers this year and only 1 is a US coin.

The silver ring pictured is my first ring ever found with a real diamond.
Also got my first gold this year, a 10k gold and sterling silver ring. The metals are literally welded together on different parts of the ring. (It's a 1936 class ring)
The charm bracelet is all sterling. Funny thing is I found the last 3 pieces hunting the same spot 3 MONTHS after I found the 4 first pieces. It was scattered everywhere.

I can say I worked HARD for these finds. About half the silvers came from 4 different spots. So without finding a few go to spots it would have been very tricky. But I was more than happy to clean them out.

I hope you all have a great 2014 hunting season!

Coin finds & silver/gold jewelry finds:

Clad:
Dollars: $7.00
Halves: $0.50
Quarters: $289.50
Dimes: $128.60
Nickels: $34.60
Pre 1960 Nickels: $2.10
Copper Pennies: $16.31
Zinc Pennies: $3.72
Total: $482.33
Indian Head Cents: 3
Wheat Cents: 362
Shield Nickels: 1
Liberty Head Nickels: 1
Buffalo Nickels: 6
War Nickels: 11
Mercury Dimes: 52
Silver Roosevelt Dimes: 53
Barber Quarters: 3
Standing Liberty Quarters: 3
Silver Washington Quarters: 9
Walking Liberty Halves: 1
Silver 50 Centavos: 1
Off Center Copper Pennies: 1
Silver Foreign Coins: 3
Non-Silver Foreign Coins: 12
Total Silver Coins: 136

Sterling Silver Rings: 22
10k Gold & Sterling Mixed Rings: 1
Misc. Sterling Silver Items: 4

[JdsCoins]

Oh, and here is the interesting off center copper penny find.
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[coinnut]

Nice finds. Love the big silvers and the charm bracelet pieces. That off set penny is real cool too. You had a good year and it must have been hard to find new sites not being familiar with the area. You should do even better this year.

[Full Metal Digger]

Nicely done JD. I didn't realize you had found 22 sterling rings. I haven't found that many in 4 years!

[JdsCoins]

Nicely done JD. I didn't realize you had found 22 sterling rings. I haven't found that many in 4 years!

Thanks Dave. When the old coin spots were far and few between I focused on looking for jewelry. The school sports fields were really good to me for the rings this year.

[del]

the large silvers are in really nice condition JdsCoins and nice when they are a different ones from the norm too. great looking finds you did extremely well .
hope next year is just as kind to you in the finds department.

Dan

[wisconsin digger]

I watched your year end summary video. Nicely done and nice job on a good year. I have a brother in Tenn (western half) and hope to sneak down there in March. Nice job.
PS are you able to hunt year round in Tennessee. Wisconsin Digger

[Digger Don]

I watched your entire video. Well Done
You had a great year
Congrats

[Timewarpdigger]

Congrats on the year and especially with the fact that you moved to an unknown area, well now you have the winter to locate the hot spots. Good luck and I was always told to speak to the older people in the area, they are the greatest source for local history. Safe & HH

[OxShoeDrew]

136 silver coins is an impressive haul
Nice eagle hat pin too. Good luck this coming year.

[JdsCoins]

I watched your year end summary video. Nicely done and nice job on a good year. I have a brother in Tenn (western half) and hope to sneak down there in March. Nice job.
PS are you able to hunt year round in Tennessee. Wisconsin Digger

Thanks. Not sure about year round hunting. Just depends on how cold it gets. The big freeze looks like It's going to hit down here too, so it might be frozen for a week or so. But we still get a lot of temps in 40's and 50's so even if it does freeze it probably won't stay that way long.

[PL8MAN]

Great year ! Congrats on all your finds

[Fire Fighter 43]

Congrats on a very nice year and good luck in 2014.