Remember your first silver?

[bigrig40]

I do easily! I t was a 1946 walking liberty half I pulled out of a well hunted park with a pioneer505.After I found it I think I hunted another 5 min.and drove home and woke up my fiance!How about you? any first silver stories?

bigrig

 

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[Jim Cal]

My first silver was a mercury dime found in my own yard within 20 minutes of buying my first detector and getting it home. I couldn't wait to get outside and try it. I also found my first gold in the same yard under the clothesline...it was the top of an old cufflink with very ornate engraving. I found lots of stuff in my own yard and quite a bit of it was silver. Jim Cal

 

[swizzle]

1874 or 76 seated liberty dime in fine condition. I found it in an old lazyboy recliner on the dump when I was a kid. I figured that maybe the old chair would have change in it. Boy was I right!!! It would be years later before I found my next one. A merc. Gotta love it Jason

 

[jeremiah212]

my first silver find is also my first ring find,and it fits me perfectly!
i haven't taken it off since..

 

[dgaughan]

i was about 10 and my dad had given me a radio shack detector we were at a construction site and he asked to use it. i walked around looking for anything on the ground. i found a 1912 d barber dime and a 1873 ih he did'nt find anything it took 25 years for the fever to resurface that barber is still my favorite find

 

[Zeke]

My first was a 64 Rosie that I didnt know I had until the next day. Me and a buddy had searched around 2 old houses that were getting ready to be torn down to make way for a grocery store. I searched the back of one while he searched the front.

There was a cement walkway from the back door and for 5 hrs I didnt get 15-20ft of either side of it. It was like someone had thrown change out the back door. I ended up finding 91 coins and 3 rings. My legs hurt for 3 days from all the squatting to dig. It was so muddy that day and I was just sticking the finds in my pocket. When I got home I emptied it out....or so I thought....and cleaned what I had found.

The next day when I got home from work, I sit down by the washer in the laundy room to smoke and noticed a penny and a dime on top of the dryer. I thought the dime looked a little odd and upon picking it up saw it was a silver 64. My wife said it was in the pocket of the jeans I had worn the day before. I guess with all the mud, it had stuck inside my pocket.

But my best silver was my second silver find. The 1911 Barber dime to the left.

 

[Monty]

I'm still looking for my first silver! I had a 1944 quarter I kept in my wallet sorta' as a good luck charm since it was the year of my birth. Wel, I lost it somewhere and hope I will find it again among the clad in my yard, which is the most likely place to look. When and if I do I'll post it. Some good luck charm huh? I lost the darn thing!

 

[lonewolfe]

Mine was a 1925 St. Liberty quarter (nothing special by any numismatic standard) it was in VG condition but, the sight of that larger shinny silver piece poping out of the ground for a (what was at the time- a 15 yr old kid!?) Priceless! I'll never forget it

 

[ol ploock]

I sure do remember.It was June of 1945. It was a quarter, next to the sidewalk. It was the most money I had ever held in my hand!
and it was all mine

 

[Jason in TN]

I found two Mercury dimes in the same yard of a 1920s house the same day. They were a 1943 and a 1945 both in good condition. My third time out detecting.

 

[Beach_hunter]

1941 Mercury dime. I found it in the parking lot of an old church. That was in 1968.