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Got out again today to a site that has been quite generous, and managed to pull a few more silver dimes, a couple of buffs, and some sterling bling. The ring sounded like silver when I hit it, it is stamped 925, and even tests as sterling with the acid, but I'll be darned if it dosen't look like...

Started this insane hobby a little over 3 years ago, and today I dug my 10,000th coin. That seems like a lot of digging, and you can see the toll it took on my digger, so I treated myself to a new one the other day. Some quick stats: 85% clad, 10% wheaties, 3.8% silvers, the rest large coppers...

41 wheaties today is a personal record (yeah, I'm a stats geek). Tough to make it look interesting in a pic, but below it is. Thursday hit a section of a site I'd been working for the past couple of months, and hit 15 wheaties and 3 silvers in 75 minutes, and figured I'd hit a new hot zone. Was...

Hunted a private property site today with a friend, and pulled a pair of Australian coins from 1943. The silver is sterling (925 fine), and was minted in San Francisco, of all places. (Had it been minted in Australia, it would be a semi-key date). Also pulled an abused merc, dated 1927. Odd to...

Week started out trying to get above 200 silvers for the year, and finding a new site. First new site I hit looked promising from the photos, but I could tell after the first 15 minutes that it was a lemon. Don't know how I knew, but spent another 4 hours verifying that conclusion >{ Second new...

Got a totally abused shield nickel (1868), and IH (1886), and a few silvers today. Hope everyone had a great weekend, and from the looks of the posts, it looks like alot of people did.

Got out today and pulled a dateless buff, 1881 IH, a few silver dimes, as well as a pile of wheats and the usual clad. One of the dimes was the shallowest silver I've ever dug, just a dusting of dirt over it (was in an eroded root system of an old growth tree). Location, location, location. HH...

Got out to the section of the site that produced a barber half on Monday, and pulled a '64 kennedy <: as well as a few other silvers today. The barber was my last target on Monday, and this was my first silver today, so two silver halves in a row. Unbelievable. This was just after I worked a...

Got out yesterday after the hurricane blew thru to a site that had been quite good to me over the summer, tho the pickins had been getting slim lately. I was looking for one more silver out of there to call it wrap for the year, but it wasn't to be -- 5 hours of hunting netted only 1 indian head...

It was nice to get out today for a change, and scored an ugly merc and 5 wheaties. The merc was only one inch deep in a public park. Targets are sparse in this very large, hunted hard park, so it is sweet to get an easy one :happydance01: HH everyone. (And maybe we can have an ugliest find of...

Boy its been a rough few weeks, but I was able to get out today for about 4 hours, and pulled 4 modern silver coins. Nothing jacks the spirit like the sweet sound of silver in the headphones and the shiny stuff in the hole. The silver Q was found 10 feet from a pavilion that I know has been...

Life has been hittin' hard lately, and I haven't been able to get out much or participate on the forum, but I did get out today for a couple of silver dimes, marking it 175 silvers for the year. :happydance01: Also dug this curious coin, which was obviously worn as a pendant by someone. Rang...

Struck out on silver today, but did dig this old key. Anyone have an idea of how old it is; what it might have unlocked? I'm no physical security expert, but that key looks pretty lame in terms of security (maybe locked a china cabinet or something) -- I'm curious 'cause the property owner may...

Got out to a site today that has produced some old coins, but never a silver older than a merc or SLQ. Nailed one today tho, an 1857 seated Q. <: <: <: This was an interesting target, dancing between CO 43 and 45 on the E-Trac at 4 inches; normally one might think it is a clad dime or memorial...

Unusual mix of keepers today, but I pulled a pair of gold rings and a large cent. The LC is classic head with full liberty and I can even make out the 80 making it an 1808 or 1809. Of course, it is so abused that you can't make out any of the obverse without the water and light trick. The gold...

Got out for a few hours today before the rains came >:\ First rain we've seen around here in about a month. It was brutally hot, and the dirt brutally hard, but I scored a merc as the first target of the day happydance02 and also scored this abused copper. :thinkingabout: About the size of a...

Met up with a couple of other guys this morning at a new site, but the ratio of mosquitoes to keepers was about 20000 to 0, so we moved on to another site. The next site was also stingy on targets, but I did manage to nail an iffy rosie happydance02, the sort the e-trac sniffs out. Decided to...

Today was a tough day to start, 3.5 hours and not even deep clad, not to mention silver. But then managed to nail a silver Q in an out of the box location happydance02. Reaslied I had not gridded a particular section (and considered blowing it off, as that section was a dead zone today), but did...

Had a good 3 hour hunt today, managed to pull 7 silvers and buff happydance02. The silvers were hard fought, deep, iffy signals or in with ferrous targets, tho I managed to pull 5 of them within an amazing span of 15 minutes, including 2 in one hole <:. Its so sweet to lift up a silver quarter...

Today managed to pull a seated half <: <: and a couple of common silver coins. Despite the tarnish, the seated has a good bit of detail, and it was quite a thrill to pull out of the dirt, The sort of thrill you'll never forget, really. Thanks for looking and HH.