Hi all! Hope everyone is having a great new year so far. I haven't got out much since the start of the new year, but the few times I did have been productive.
I found my first silver of the year a couple of weeks ago. Just didn't get around to post it. No biggie. It is a 1940 Merc. On Sunday I got out and it was pretty nice weather for January I must say.
So, I was bopping around for a long while not making too much headway. I found a clad dime, and some old junk jewelry. I made my way down to a trail along a waterway and that's when things got interesting. I had a killer solid signal on my F2. Ringing up clad quarter. But after digging the hole a brown disc pops out. I said, That ain't no clad quarter! Sure enough, I could tell I have a largie here. It was about 3 inches deep. A foot away I get the same signal saying it's on the surface. I brush away the leaves and I'm like, No way! It looks like another largie sticking out of the ground!
mg: It must have been deeper at some point, but erosion must have exposed it. My best guess is that they are two Draped Bust LC's. They are too toasted to get dates off of. I can make out a zero on one and I can barely make out the nose on the right facing bust.
The rest of the coins were all an inch deep or so. In all I cleaned out the 2 largies, 5 Indian Head pennies, 1 wheat and 1 shield nickel, all within a 20 foot area. (Plus a musket ball!) I also found two more wheats and two memorials in another spot, giving me TWO penny trifectas!! :happy: No silver, but hey, I'm not complaining. lol
Thanks for looking and happy hunting!! :groovy:
I found my first silver of the year a couple of weeks ago. Just didn't get around to post it. No biggie. It is a 1940 Merc. On Sunday I got out and it was pretty nice weather for January I must say.
So, I was bopping around for a long while not making too much headway. I found a clad dime, and some old junk jewelry. I made my way down to a trail along a waterway and that's when things got interesting. I had a killer solid signal on my F2. Ringing up clad quarter. But after digging the hole a brown disc pops out. I said, That ain't no clad quarter! Sure enough, I could tell I have a largie here. It was about 3 inches deep. A foot away I get the same signal saying it's on the surface. I brush away the leaves and I'm like, No way! It looks like another largie sticking out of the ground!
mg: It must have been deeper at some point, but erosion must have exposed it. My best guess is that they are two Draped Bust LC's. They are too toasted to get dates off of. I can make out a zero on one and I can barely make out the nose on the right facing bust.The rest of the coins were all an inch deep or so. In all I cleaned out the 2 largies, 5 Indian Head pennies, 1 wheat and 1 shield nickel, all within a 20 foot area. (Plus a musket ball!) I also found two more wheats and two memorials in another spot, giving me TWO penny trifectas!! :happy: No silver, but hey, I'm not complaining. lol
Thanks for looking and happy hunting!! :groovy:
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