After work I decided to head down to a local park with my oldest son to do a little detecting. He has yet to get a silver and I haven't dug one while hunting with him until tonight. The first park we went to I have never had any luck at but we managed to get a little clad. Signals were very strange and I was getting a lot of "ghost" signals. I would get an iffy signal and then once I dug nothing would be there. The gnats were driving me crazy also so I figured we would go to another park that is next to one of the older fire stations in town. I had dug a silver rosie in the fire station yard the last time there and didnt get a chance to cover much of the ground due to it getting dark so we figured we would give it a shot. I decided to hit the sidewalk strip first and about 10 foot into the strip I get a bouncy signal that I thought was a dime or quarter. It did bounce a couple times from a 12-45/47 to a 06-45/47 but mainly was reading in the 12-45/47 range. It wasn't but about 3 or 4 inches so I really thought just a clad quarter at best. I about passed out when I rolled a 1936D WLH out of the plug. I litterly fell from a squat right onto my rump. My son thought I had lost it.
After finally recovering I filled in the plug and started forward again. Not 10 foot further I get a signal that was nice and strong but bouncing from a 12-45/47 down to a 12-43. I have had copper pennies do this to me before and even told my son that this was a penny or dime at best. This one was about 4 or 5 inches and after pulling the plug in the side of it I could see the silver edge and new right off by the size it was another half. I just about totally flipped out and my son had to get it out of the plug for me. Right off I spotted the Barber head so I rubbed a little dirt off to read the date. I couldn't believe it was a 1910 Barber Half (Now my oldest coin to date).
We finished out the day with just shy of a $1.50 in clad, the 2 halves and my son also got an older button (no design on it) that was between the two halves. I still probably haven't covered but maybe 1/4 of the area around the fire station but plan on getting back there soon. Looks like maybe I have finally found a place that hasn't been totally hunted to death. I am still so excited I doubt I will sleep much tonight lol. I am just glad my son was there with me for those two coins. We both were pretty excited.
After finally recovering I filled in the plug and started forward again. Not 10 foot further I get a signal that was nice and strong but bouncing from a 12-45/47 down to a 12-43. I have had copper pennies do this to me before and even told my son that this was a penny or dime at best. This one was about 4 or 5 inches and after pulling the plug in the side of it I could see the silver edge and new right off by the size it was another half. I just about totally flipped out and my son had to get it out of the plug for me. Right off I spotted the Barber head so I rubbed a little dirt off to read the date. I couldn't believe it was a 1910 Barber Half (Now my oldest coin to date).
We finished out the day with just shy of a $1.50 in clad, the 2 halves and my son also got an older button (no design on it) that was between the two halves. I still probably haven't covered but maybe 1/4 of the area around the fire station but plan on getting back there soon. Looks like maybe I have finally found a place that hasn't been totally hunted to death. I am still so excited I doubt I will sleep much tonight lol. I am just glad my son was there with me for those two coins. We both were pretty excited.
