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Thread: Reached 900th Silver Coin since 2012

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    Reached 900th Silver Coin since 2012

    I was away on a fishing trip to Canada and was anxious to get back to swinging being only 4 silver short of 900. Went out to an old Church I have depleted pretty well but managed a Rosie and a couple of wheats. After taking my son fishing on Fathers day I planned on hunting a couple of hours in the evening (really HOT in Wisconsin) hoping to find 3 silver. The Park I went to has some mixed history. It has a ballfield now but many of the coins I've found predate the field as the field does not show up on 1939 aerials. The problem at the field is the old coins are really deep and the grass is pretty tall. The Park should yield some nice coins next spring when the grass is low. Hunt started out pretty slow as I was barely finding any clad much less any old coins. First decent signal was really deep and a decent high tone. I was expecting a silver dime at best but was shocked to see a bigger silver rim. Coin spill, as I got a 1912 "V" nickel pasted to the face of a SLQ. This was my first Hi-relief SLQ with a date, 1920 "D". That would of made my night but I continued and got another weaker deep signal. This turned out to be a 1902 Barber Dime. Now I was one away from 900. Not long after the Barber dime I got a surprising pretty decent 12-45 really deep signal again. Another surprise when I found the coin was quarter size. A slight brush of the dirt and I was shocked to see a Barber head dated 1908, Number "900". After that I just decided to go home as I didn't think anything could make this hunt any better. That was the 3rd Barber coin from this small Park. Happy camper in Wisconsin on Fathers Day. Keep swinging Wisconsin Digger
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    Total silver 3 - Goal 50 (2024 Finds) - 0 Washington - 0 Barber Dimes - 0 Mercury Dimes- - 3 Roosevelt Dimes - 0 V Nickels - 0 Buffalos - 0 War Nickels - 0 Indian - 10 Wheats - $ 3.44 in clad
    Relics: MILESTONES since 2012: 1700 silver coins - 8000 Clad Quarters - 500 Roosevelts - 750 Mercury Dimes

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    Elite Member Digger_O'Dell's Avatar
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    Huge congrats on number 900! Great way to beat the heat
    I was baking in the Illinois sun this weekend too, it was terrible. But it funny how often you find coins that predate the site your hunting.
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    Minelab: CTX 3030, GPX 4800, X-Terra 705. Whites TDI SL.

    2023 Silver: 1 Gold: 0

    Best finds: 28 silver dime spill, 1800s Dutch customs seal.
    Oldest/best coins: 1837 Upper Canada large cent, 1877 Seated Dime
    Oldest find: 1800 Sailors Luck token
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    Grats on the milestone. Now for another 100 to go. I'm still a long ways off for that number. lol.
    Future goals: Capped bust coin, Flowing hair LC, Classic head LC, VT copper, MA copper, Pistareen, Two-cent pc, SLQ, GW inaugural button, Excelsior button, Civil war token, and a gold ring.



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    3 awesome silvers! Congrats on #900! Can you get to 1000 by the end of this year? Well it should be fun trying!
    Detectors I use: Minelab Equinox 900 & Manticore
    Favorite finds I have made:
    1,000+ silver coins
    92pcs of 1700's Trade Era Silver
    Copper Culture Indian Artifacts
    125+ War of 1812 Era buttons and relics
    My wife
    (probably should have started with that one)

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    Elite Member Digger Don's Avatar
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    on #900
    WOW, THAT"S A LOT OF SILVER COINS.
    Oldest Coin: 1699 William III Halfpenny


    20
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    Silver 4
    Indian 3, Buff 1, V Nik 1, Rosie 2, Barber Dime, SLQ 1,

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    Congrats Wisconsin Digger, from someone in the NW part of the state. 900 is an amazing number and shows you and your machines have tremendous skill and capability. It WAS hot here too yesterday, I myself scored a couple silver but lost about 5 pounds of sweat doing it. Good luck as you begin the next 900, maybe our paths will cross someday.

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    Very nice finds, congrats on all those shiny ones!
    Minelab Equinox 600 & Whites Coinmaster, Garrett Propointer, Lesche Digger
    Oldest silver: 1853 Half-dime & 1876S Seated Quarter / Oldest coin: 1849 US Large Cent / 1854 Upper Canada One Penny Bank Token

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    Veteran Member leslie(nova scotia)'s Avatar
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    Great bench mark....the 1000th acannot be that far away. Congrats!
    From the land of the Bluenose.....life is a beach at least till the tide comes in and the Bud is all gone. Swish and dig at the drop of a dime!

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    Wow. Might take me the next 20 years to get to that.
    2017 Total:
    Mercs= 2
    Wash=1
    Seated=1
    total slivers=4
    Wheats 8.
    Indians=4 (1864,1865,1888)
    LG cents=1
    1 Sliver Pendent, 2= 3-ringers, 2 tokens

    Most Valuable find ever: 1834 C.B. dime, Oldest 1776 1/2 Reale, Biggest 1822 CB half.
    Detectors: E-trac and F75LTD2

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