Mississippi Yankee
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New to Forum .... would like to share my "1st Silver' experiance.
Hello all !!
A friend recently sent me a link to your GREAT site & I have been reading about some of your finds. I am now STOKED to get back out & using the MD again. ( My health & the Mississippi heat index of 100 PLUS every day put the brakes on for a while
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I would like to share my first SILVER Coin find of a year ago. I understand fully some of your disappointments of how long it takes to actually learn to use the equipment & to zero in on something "worthwhile" !!
I was coin-shooting a property here in south-central MS hoping just to find SOMETHING. I got a Dime signal fairly close to a large tree & figured ... GREAT ...tree roots to contend with !! I, sure enough, probed just 2 inches down to run into a large root. I dug around the signal on both sides till I had a 6" under & around where the signal was, but still nothing !! I rescanned the root & got the signal again which explained WHY I had nothing but dirt for my work. Then I noticed the root had some sort of elongated knot in it .... stuck my knife in there ... & out of the bottom of the root, falls a small clump of dirt with a dime STUCK to it. Figured, "Cool" ... then looked closer at the dime & started grinning ear to ear. It was a 1926 Merc !! My FIRST Silver. The one coin I will NEVER forget where, when & how I found it no matter how bad the memory gets through the years !!
Hope you all have your finds etched into the 'ole memory banks also !!
"Of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most"
Hello all !!
A friend recently sent me a link to your GREAT site & I have been reading about some of your finds. I am now STOKED to get back out & using the MD again. ( My health & the Mississippi heat index of 100 PLUS every day put the brakes on for a while
)I would like to share my first SILVER Coin find of a year ago. I understand fully some of your disappointments of how long it takes to actually learn to use the equipment & to zero in on something "worthwhile" !!
I was coin-shooting a property here in south-central MS hoping just to find SOMETHING. I got a Dime signal fairly close to a large tree & figured ... GREAT ...tree roots to contend with !! I, sure enough, probed just 2 inches down to run into a large root. I dug around the signal on both sides till I had a 6" under & around where the signal was, but still nothing !! I rescanned the root & got the signal again which explained WHY I had nothing but dirt for my work. Then I noticed the root had some sort of elongated knot in it .... stuck my knife in there ... & out of the bottom of the root, falls a small clump of dirt with a dime STUCK to it. Figured, "Cool" ... then looked closer at the dime & started grinning ear to ear. It was a 1926 Merc !! My FIRST Silver. The one coin I will NEVER forget where, when & how I found it no matter how bad the memory gets through the years !!
Hope you all have your finds etched into the 'ole memory banks also !!
"Of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most"
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