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Well Phil.... (Niterider_58) and I headed to St. Louis Sunday morning to meet up with some of the guys in the detecting club. We got there by 8:00 AM...and by 8:45 it was raining! 
The group of 10 quickly dwindled down to 4 
...but we sat it out...off and on for almost 2 hours. It ended up being Phil and I...along with club members Kelly-Stl and smallchange.
We hunted the first park for about 2 hours and I found the 1854 Seated Dime. Yep...I know it's a beauty ...hey at least it's a seated!...and it STILL counts. 
Trust me...if you hold it in the light just right...you can make out the 1854 date. It is my first seated this year and man is it worn paper thin. It was down about 8". I took a second pic of the seated by itself to post separate from the other dimes..but it looks worse than it does here...so I didn't show it cause it looks like a silver slug. 
...actually as I'm posting this and viewing the pic...it looks like a smooth silver slug in this pic too
About 20 minutes later I hit a nutty sounding signal...but it was deep on the gauge so I started diggin' . Got down about 8" and out popped a wheatie. I probed the hole again...and it sang out SILVER. Popped out the 1892 Barber dime
After the rain finally stopped altogether I made 2 or 3 phone calls to try and get some others to hunt with us...but couldn't get ahold of anyone....so the four of us decided to venture to another park. We took the not so scenic route through town ...and promptly stopped at the store so I could buy some DRY socks. 
After hitting every stoplight imaginable...we finally arrived. By now the rain had completely gone away...but had also killed 50% of our hunt time
About 20 minutes in...I dug the Roosey..and then it hit me...all I need now is a Merc. for the grand slam. Problem was that IF we did hit a target to dig...we needed a jackhammer to dig the plug.
The clay ground was nasty hard! Well after another 30 minutes or so Igot an iffy hit...but it interested me enough to spend 15 minutes or so chiseling away until...out popped a 1942 Merc. Yippee!...my first grand slam in over 20 years. 
At this point...my arms and hands ached from digging in this stuff...so we moved to a different part of the park. I dug a memorial cent down 7"...then a nice green 1919 wheatie down only 3"??
About 15 minutes later I got another shallow clad dime type of hit..so I dug about a 3" plug...then dug some dirt out of the hole...then ran the probe in the hole...nothing. Ran the probe over the 3" plug...and it sang clad dime. Sure enough...sitting there in the 3" plug was a nasty.grayish/brown coin I thought for sure was a wheatie. When I snatched it up however...I saw the "one dime" on the back. Upon closer inspection...sure enough...a second Barber dime...1899...from 3" down. 
I'm not complaining...but What the heck...a 1919 wheatie...and now an 1899 barber dime...BOTH from less than 3" down?? 
I'm still puzzled by this as I type...not complaining...just puzzled.
Thanks for sharing my GRAND SLAM with me. I suppose with the seated being so worn... it might be kind of an "inside the park homerun" 
...but it IS a GRAND SLAM nonetheless....and it's all mine. Good luck to everyone on your next hunt.
The group of 10 quickly dwindled down to 4 ...but we sat it out...off and on for almost 2 hours. It ended up being Phil and I...along with club members Kelly-Stl and smallchange. We hunted the first park for about 2 hours and I found the 1854 Seated Dime. Yep...I know it's a beauty
...hey at least it's a seated!...and it STILL counts. Trust me...if you hold it in the light just right...you can make out the 1854 date. It is my first seated this year and man is it worn paper thin. It was down about 8". I took a second pic of the seated by itself to post separate from the other dimes..but it looks worse than it does here...so I didn't show it cause it looks like a silver slug. ...actually as I'm posting this and viewing the pic...it looks like a smooth silver slug in this pic too About 20 minutes later I hit a nutty sounding signal...but it was deep on the gauge so I started diggin' . Got down about 8" and out popped a wheatie. I probed the hole again...and it sang out SILVER. Popped out the 1892 Barber dime
After the rain finally stopped altogether I made 2 or 3 phone calls to try and get some others to hunt with us...but couldn't get ahold of anyone....so the four of us decided to venture to another park. We took the not so scenic route through town
...and promptly stopped at the store so I could buy some DRY socks. After hitting every stoplight imaginable...we finally arrived. By now the rain had completely gone away...but had also killed 50% of our hunt time
About 20 minutes in...I dug the Roosey..and then it hit me...all I need now is a Merc. for the grand slam. Problem was that IF we did hit a target to dig...we needed a jackhammer to dig the plug.
The clay ground was nasty hard! Well after another 30 minutes or so Igot an iffy hit...but it interested me enough to spend 15 minutes or so chiseling away until...out popped a 1942 Merc. Yippee!...my first grand slam in over 20 years. At this point...my arms and hands ached from digging in this stuff...so we moved to a different part of the park. I dug a memorial cent down 7"...then a nice green 1919 wheatie down only 3"??
About 15 minutes later I got another shallow clad dime type of hit..so I dug about a 3" plug...then dug some dirt out of the hole...then ran the probe in the hole...nothing. Ran the probe over the 3" plug...and it sang clad dime. Sure enough...sitting there in the 3" plug was a nasty.grayish/brown coin I thought for sure was a wheatie. When I snatched it up however...I saw the "one dime" on the back. Upon closer inspection...sure enough...a second Barber dime...1899...from 3" down.
I'm not complaining...but What the heck...a 1919 wheatie...and now an 1899 barber dime...BOTH from less than 3" down?? I'm still puzzled by this as I type...not complaining...just puzzled. Thanks for sharing my GRAND SLAM with me. I suppose with the seated being so worn... it might be kind of an "inside the park homerun"
...but it IS a GRAND SLAM nonetheless....and it's all mine. Good luck to everyone on your next hunt.Amazon Forum Fav 👍
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and from looking at the coins it was more then worh it Huge Congrats 
