washingtonian
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Hey all,
Hope everyone is still doing well. I had a slower week of detecting, just been busy with life but I still had a little time to get out. I made it out for one shorter and one longer hunt.
The short hunt was on Wednesday afternoon. Finds were slow and my motivation was low. Here are the keepers from the couple hour outing.
Friday was a different ballgame. I got invited out by some gracious friends to detect one of their permissions with them.
The day started hot as my second signal was a 64-D Rosie.
Within a half hour I added a second silver, a 41-D Washington from 7”+ down. Probably one of the deepest silvers I’ve ever found.
After that, things slowed down for a couple hours. I wandered around the permission just picking up a couple wheat pennies. I was actually headed back to the area where I had my initial success when I found a surprise, 44-S Merc.
15 minutes later and I had a great signal deep down. I removed a pulltab at 4” and kept digging. 7” down I saw the shine of silver. I thought it was a Barber at first and it’s not until I removed it that I realized it was a 1961, Young Lizzie Canadian Dime. I also pulled an old ointment tube out from underneath it. Impressive separation capability from the Nox!
Another 15 minutes go by and I’m getting a 24 at 4” on the Equinox. That’s usually a bottle cap or maybe a penny, I was surprised to see a coin with a wreath on the back. I could tell pretty quickly it wasn’t US.
Turns out it’s a 1919-S (Santiago) Chilean diez centavos. So cool! Never seen one of those before. It’s 40% silver and looks to be holed as if it was worn on a necklace. One of my more unique silver coins ever.
All in all it ended up being a killer day. 5 silvers and 9 wheats including a dime quadfecta (of sorts); Rosie, Merc, Lizzie and Chilean.
Thanks as always for reading along. I haven’t been keeping up with reading posts as well as I’d like the last couple weeks. Hopefully I’ll be back at it soon!
All the best and good luck out there,
W
Hope everyone is still doing well. I had a slower week of detecting, just been busy with life but I still had a little time to get out. I made it out for one shorter and one longer hunt.
The short hunt was on Wednesday afternoon. Finds were slow and my motivation was low. Here are the keepers from the couple hour outing.
Friday was a different ballgame. I got invited out by some gracious friends to detect one of their permissions with them.
The day started hot as my second signal was a 64-D Rosie.
Within a half hour I added a second silver, a 41-D Washington from 7”+ down. Probably one of the deepest silvers I’ve ever found.
After that, things slowed down for a couple hours. I wandered around the permission just picking up a couple wheat pennies. I was actually headed back to the area where I had my initial success when I found a surprise, 44-S Merc.
15 minutes later and I had a great signal deep down. I removed a pulltab at 4” and kept digging. 7” down I saw the shine of silver. I thought it was a Barber at first and it’s not until I removed it that I realized it was a 1961, Young Lizzie Canadian Dime. I also pulled an old ointment tube out from underneath it. Impressive separation capability from the Nox!
Another 15 minutes go by and I’m getting a 24 at 4” on the Equinox. That’s usually a bottle cap or maybe a penny, I was surprised to see a coin with a wreath on the back. I could tell pretty quickly it wasn’t US.
Turns out it’s a 1919-S (Santiago) Chilean diez centavos. So cool! Never seen one of those before. It’s 40% silver and looks to be holed as if it was worn on a necklace. One of my more unique silver coins ever.
All in all it ended up being a killer day. 5 silvers and 9 wheats including a dime quadfecta (of sorts); Rosie, Merc, Lizzie and Chilean.
Thanks as always for reading along. I haven’t been keeping up with reading posts as well as I’d like the last couple weeks. Hopefully I’ll be back at it soon!
All the best and good luck out there,
W
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