1950's School Yard Shocker

[JimmyCT]

I have hunted this 1950's grammar school many, many times over the years as well as every person that has owned a detector. The most I have ever found in all the years were wheaties and not one piece of silver....that is until the other evening. This was definitely a shocker as I never envision a SLQ coming out of this place. I couldn't even muster a Rosey dime lol

The signal was a bit of a difficult one and didn't present itself in tone or ID correctly. Performing little wiggles right over the target I could hear the tone trying to climb. (This is precisely why I utilize 50 tones on the Equinox.) If someone isn't using 50 tones, you are not going to hear or experience this. Glancing at the numerical readout, TID was 24 and sometimes flickering 25 but that was it.

Thanks to fwcrawford, he identified it as a Type II Standing Liberty Quarter produced from 1917-1924

These quarters are very elusive!! This is the 2nd one I have ever found.

Equinox 800 Settings:
Park1 - Multi
GB - 0
"all-metal"
sensitivity - 23
50 tones
Iron Bias - 0
Recovery speed - 4
very slow sweep speed

 

[Ronstar]

Purely makes me want to keep swinging even when the old bones go nope, nada, done for the day.......

 

[laplander]

Nice little squeaker! SLQ's don't show their face very often.
HH Jeff

 

[still looking 52]

I posted on the f series forum a couple days ago where I found a silver quarter and your quarter looks "EXACTLY" like the one I found.
We were hunting a junior high school that was built in 1949, we've taken over 100 clad coins out of this place in the last three hunts with only four wheat Pennys so getting this silver quarter was a shocker.
Nice find Earthly.

 

[Mark kus]

Nice find love the SLQ type 1 also was changed because of the exposed "boob" on lady liberty..
Mark

 

[kaolinwasher]

I like that Jimmy

 

[JimmyCT]

Thank you Gunnar

I like that Jimmy

 

[kschae4]

Nice save, one of my fav's to find.

 

[wildwilly]

Never thought about the "boob" before. Got to start really looking at the coins I find. Nice finds.