It took me 16 years to find this BIG SILVER today !

PL8MAN

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I had the day off so I meet up with Ryan at an old location that will give up a silver still . Today it opened up BIG TIME ! I'll start with the first good find , about an hour into a 2 1/2 hour hunt I got a sweet +81 at one inch . I pulled back the grass and saw ring #7 and it was silver
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. Then a good 30 minutes later I was getting lots of +74 and +77 at all depths , all were pennies and dimes . One target was jumpy at 6 inches going between +74 , +77 and even hit +80 twice . I dug down and saw the sweetest thing ever , a BIG SILVER COIN EDGE !!!! I call Ryan over to see it . I was thinking silver half dollar but no it was the coin I had been looking for
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. I couldn't believe it , I was shaking
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. It was my first ever Morgan silver dollar ! It's a 1883 with no mint mark . I still can't believe it
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. I remember two years ago watching Ryan find his first Morgan
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. It was hard to hunt after that I was almost unable to focus on the hunt do to being so happy . After all that I did manage one more good old coin , a 1904 V nickel . It's been awhile since I found one .
When I got home and started cleaning my finds I had one more item in my pouch that I couldn't identify till I cleaned it . It turned out to have writing on it that says , GGIE WORLDS FAIR 1940 S.F. CAL. . It's my first Golden Gate International Exposition find . Maybe a lid to something ?
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All I can say is it was one great hunt !
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HH
Glen
 

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Awesome score on that beautiful old Morgan there Glen, I've found only one myself :thumbsup02:

............................................... :congrats:
 
That is a sweet one! I'd be on cloud nine for about 3 days after a find like that. Then the endorphins would wear off and I'd be out looking for my next fix. :detecting: Congrats!!
 
WTG on a HUGE find! How the heck people lost those and no one noticed is amazing! Looks like it wasn't in circ. for very long either. :envious:
 
Wow :shocked02: What a beauty. Still on my to find list and probably will be forever:lol: Congrats on finding it, but even more for not scratching it.:clapping:
 
Congrats on that gorgeous Morgan. I'm normally pretty reserved, but I think I would have freak out if I dug one of those.
Very Cool :wow:
 
A big congrats to you Glen!!! Glad to see you found the big one. :smitten:

It's great to hear Ryan was able to be there for your first one... just like you were there for his.

An 1883 is an early one. :shocked04: She's in beautiful shape!

Congratulations
 
congrats on a fair to middling hunt! (i jest!!) the moment when you realize what you just found is an awesome feeling isnt it? congrats on joining the silver dollar club!
 

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