she ain't purty but she's mine

McCDig

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Jan 31, 2015
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Baltimore, Maryland
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Fisher F75
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Metal Detecting
Got out today with John C today; it had been two months since we last hunted together. We hit one elementary school and John was the first to score silver, finding a shallow silver ring. We made our way over to the street-side strip with older trees and began to find wheats. Good sign and then I got a 27 signal on my Equinox; this produced a NIKE silver ring.
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John had an itch to find something old so we headed further down into the city to yet another public elementary school, a site where he had found numerous silver and nickel targets in the past. I was working a hill and dug a choppy signal that was mostly in the high 20s only to see a thin silver disk in the dirt ball. I figured either a trime or a half dime and a little cleaning with water, I discovered this target to be an 1854 half dime, not pretty but exactly what we were looking for.
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I pressed on an did get another positive target on that hill and uncovered a small STERLING charm in the hole. This is a tiny working mailbox.
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All in all, a pretty amazing hunt and what a way to kick off my first day of retirement.
 

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Cool winds Mike. That's your second half dime in a month. Congrats.
 

Thanks Jamie! My first one came on November 23rd of this year and the second on December 29th, so back-to-back months.
 

Thanks xcopperstax! As you said "a little roughed up", it is bent a little and the obverse took a beating but, gladly, the date is readable.
 

Thanks eyemustdigtreasure! Very happy with the Equinox 600; seems it follows in the example of Minelab's eTrac in the ability to sniff out the silver.
 

Thanks Jesse! Great to get out on what turned out to be a warm December day in Baltimore.
 

Thanks Yak1366! That's some fine work to have the flag and door moveable. From what I can tell the charm dates from the 1940s.
 

Thanks Sub! Retirement will be a reset for me in many ways. Detecting will be part of that.
 

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