Seated Silver...SLQ in the Iron....some Injuns...jewelry...tokens

[silverfreak]

What a beautiful weekend. I hunted ALL day BOTH days..and the finds were few and far between...but they did pop out.
I met up for the first time with Coin Magnet...Coin Magnet Jr....and a feller' who wishes to remain anonymous.
I met them at one of their parks....and it has been beat to death over the years just like any other place I frequent. I wouldn't have it any other way.

Coin Magnet pointed out to us where he had found different coins over the years. It was a park that has given up a lot of nice coins in a lot of different spots..so we just started pluggin' away. He told us most areas were hit and miss with fill dirt..so we just took our chances
Coin Magnet Jr. and I started in the most obvious spot of all...right amidst the old playground equipment. I didn't take 3 steps before hitting the first Injun. It was down 8" to 9"...and gave the classic injun tone hit and cursor dance.

I then took another 5 steps and got a decent but strange higher hit. I dug down about 7" and popped out the completely black Merc.
I completed the circle around the one piece of playground equipment..and at the last point...I got a warbly high pitched jumper. The sound was sweet..but strange...kind of like a "sick flute". The cursor was everywhere..and never locked in any one spot. Had I not just dug a merc...and deep injun within 15 feet..I might have walked away. I RE checked the target and got the same thing...but it wouldn't pinpoint like it should...and not only was the depth meter buried...it wasn't even registering. I dug a monster plug down about 10" then ran the probe...NOTHING. I then dug a second hole ajoining the first hole...and ran the probe again...BINGO. I got a nice hit at the bottom edge of the second hole...so I carefully picked at it with my fingers. Finally...there it was....from 10" down and almost straight on edge...out came the 1872 seated dime.

The rest of the day consisted of lots of detecting but not much more digging. I did manage another merc... one more injun...and a few wheaties.

Sunday morning rolled around..and I woke up ready to hit the same park again. It bugged me that I spent the last 2 hours of Saturday's hunt not finding much. I wanted to see if I could pull out a few more deepies...so off I went.
I started out in an area that I knew had some fill spots in it. I decided to grid it in 30 foot sections to see if I could tell where the old dirt was. My first pass provided me with my favorite dig of the day. I got a very iffy signal but it was deep and it had a narrow window that screamed silver...then nulled. From the other direction...it nulled...then screamed silver ...but again...a very short silver hit. I dug down about 9" and the probe now sang...but intermittent. I pinpointed with the probe and dug out a clod. Out popped a standing liberty quarter with an old rusty piece of iron right accross the reverse. You can still see the rusty stripe accross it...so I'll leave it there as a "battle scar". YES...again...I dug a dateless one.
About 20 feet away...I got a nice two merc pocket spill at 9"...so I was now on cruise control.

On the return pass of my first trip...I got a nice sterling necklace with a religous charm on it from 8" ....and also an injun from 9".

The next 2 hours were..... I dug nothing....and it seemed like I was getting into some fill dirt.

I then moved to a different little section of the park where I got a completely black Barber dime...little junk ring... a token...and two more wheaties in about an hour. The barber dime is soaking in some lemon juice so it's not in the pics. It looks exactly like the black merc...and it "ain't purty".

For the last 2 hours...I moved back over closer to the playground area I was at on Saturday. I didn't hunt the same area...but a little area close by. Talk about NO finds for a long stretch. I was getting ticked off...and hadn't even dug a coin the last hour...and it was now geting DARK. I was bound and determined to get one more coin before leaving...no matter what time it was. Finally about 20 minutes after it got dark...I got a very deep injun hit. From 9" down...out it came. I didn't know what it was because it was dark...so I headed for the car. Turned out to be an 1891 injun...and a nasty one...but at least I could now leave in peace because I found one last dig.
I ended up the weekend with 7 silver...some jewelry...some tokens...some injuns...and had a blast. The silver is as follows...1872 Seated dime... 1917D merc...1917S merc....1912 Barber dime...19?? SLQ...1939 merc...1944merc. injuns were...1888, 1891, 1898, 1899.

Thanks for viewing and good luck hunting. Enjoy it before the weather gets bad. I'll probably be blowing off work today to meet up with a couple fellers' to do some more hunting. It's just to nice to be stuck inside the YMCA today.

 

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[John Deere Digger]

Sweet digs Bryce. Your posts continue to amaze me, WTG.
JDD

 

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[Weasel_Loader]

What a weekend for you Bryce. Pulling that seated was an amazing feet. Looks like that park will have you work hard for your treasures. Thanks for sharing!

 

[halfdime]

Congrats on a superb weekend! Every time I read your posts I wonder what I'm missing; I never dig coins as deep as you do.

 

[TimC (North Alabama)]

Wow Bryce, cool beans dude, you are on fire with that SE and finding all that silver and copper. You are truly an inspiration for all of us SE users. Did you use the Pro or SEF coil. How do you like the SEF?

 

[wwwtimmcp]

cool digs, is that a stone with the mounting prongs bent over ?

 

[1491]

Silverfreak, awesome as always and the narrative is great. Tell me, is there a lot of clad coinage and trash at your parks that you have to ignore? A form of "reverse cherry-picking" of a site?

Jim

 

[silverfreak]

Silverfreak, awesome as always and the narrative is great. Tell me, is there a lot of clad coinage and trash at your parks that you have to ignore? A form of "reverse cherry-picking" of a site?

Jim

Thanks Jim. Actually the parks i hunt are so void of signals...I can concentrate on deep hits. Some parks do have some clad...but it's easy to ignore.

cool digs, is that a stone with the mounting prongs bent over ?

Thanks buddy. Yep...it's a stone set in a gold mounting.

Wow Bryce, cool beans dude, you are on fire with that SE and finding all that silver and copper. You are truly an inspiration for all of us SE users. Did you use the Pro or SEF coil. How do you like the SEF?

Thanks Tim. I have both coils...but I have been using the SEF coil exclusively. No way it will be coming off any time soon.

Congrats on a superb weekend! Every time I read your posts I wonder what I'm missing; I never dig coins as deep as you do.

Thanks HD. I always view your posts. You "ain't" missin' nothin' my friend.

What a weekend for you Bryce. Pulling that seated was an amazing feet. Looks like that park will have you work hard for your treasures. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks Weasel. Yep...it's hard work..but also fun

Sweet digs Bryce. Your posts continue to amaze me, WTG.
JDD

Thanks JDD

 

[weasel606]

silverfreak your just plain awesome ! and some great finds you got there to , congrats on another excellent hunt

 

[Colonial Copper Zeus]

Bryce, how do you do it man? Do you just stand there and whistle through your teeth and say, "Here silver silver silver" and those silver coins probably just pop out of the ground and come running to daddy silverfreak. You are awesome dude.
Chris

 

[silverfreak]

Bryce, how do you do it man? Do you just stand there and whistle through your teeth and say, "Here silver silver silver" and those silver coins probably just pop out of the ground and come running to daddy silverfreak. You are awesome dude.
Chris

Thanks Chris. I have never tried that method...but it sounds like it would be much easier than what I'm accustomed to Take care buddy...and pop out some more colonial goodies before the ground freezes.

silverfreak your just plain awesome ! and some great finds you got there to , congrats on another excellent hunt

Thanks Weasel.

 

[crazyjarhead]

Excellent finds SF. Those injuns are sweet and green

 

[Mirage]

What, a dateless SLQ?! Just like the ones I find.

Blowing off work to go detecting? Shame on you. I wanted to go fishing today but had a telecon in the afternoon. I was able to get in a lunchtime hunt which rewarded me. Almost too warm today (about 69 for a high). We still have yet to get a hard frost. Lake Erie water temp at 52 keeping us warm.

Bob