Went hunting this morning at one park, played around with some settings, found clad, got tired and came home.
Rested up a bit and watched Prospectors on the weather channel then the wife comes in, steals all the remotes, switches over to Roku and finds some stupid British Hammer film horror pic so I said I am going out hunting again.
I went up to another park in the neighborhood but I expected nothing...I was just there for something to do.
An old park but I have been there so much lately I am starting to get bored with several areas plus no rain in awhile so it is crazy hard to dig anything deeper than an inch or two.
No matter, I walked around a bit looking for new areas to hunt.
I ended up in a small area at the edge of the park right between one of the frisbee golf goals on one side and next to a fence of someone's backyard on the other.
Some iron signals here, I dug some kind of an old copper electrical strap hoping it was an old wheatie, one older piece of can slaw but there wasn't much around here, not even any tabs or pop tops.
I figured not much went on in this spot over the years.
I swung a lot but didn't get any great signals so I didn't dig for awhile then I get this solid high tone and the numbers show a steady 98-99 on the F70.
Never got a signal like that before.
Depth says 4"deep and I raise my coil high expecting to still get a can signal, after all this had to be a full can, I thought, but I lost it as I raised the coil higher.
My Deteknix pinpointer couldn't pick it up but that is normal on deeper stuff.
I still innocently thought deeper can but what the heck I gotta dig it and find out.
I dug a shallow hole and the handheld started to pick it up.
I dug a bit deeper scraping the hard soil as I went and finally got to about 4" and stuck the point of my digger to the side of the hole, dug down and pried up the hard dirt in the middle. I saw a shiny round object covered in dirt pop up and I swear I thought, great...the top of an older thick can.
I grabbed it but it felt strangely heavy and I rubbed the dirt off the top with my thumb and saw that liberty head and the year 1922 below it.
Then I stopped rubbing and I think I also stopped breathing for several seconds.
I always wanted to dig a silver dollar, dug a few clad Ikes in my time but I never thought that would happen here in dirt where you can't get deep and in a public park.
Evidently I know nothing and now I have hope there still could be other great coins around here I might possibly find one day.
I dug a Walker half once, this is way better and I will be flying over this one for awhile.
If you see grass or dirt hit it no matter what preconceptions you might have.
You never know!
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You can thank your wife for stealing the remote 
Originally Posted by OxShoeDrew
what a beautiful coin DIGGER27 
