I had made the decision early in the year that I was going to curtail my posting of finds as much as I used to and only post finds from hunts that have a little special flavor to them. To some extent, this is one of those hunts.
You may recall from a couple of my previous finds posts that my hunting buddy and I had run into a spot that was loaded with clad along with some silver jewelry finds and a fair amount of wheat cents, 30, had also come to light, but not one silver coin had been found. We were both pretty be-fuddled of why no silver coins had shown up, but a pretty good batch of wheat cents had. After our yesterdays hunt we got to talking about the "bank" as we had dubbed the spot since it had yielded us over 600 modern coins over three different hunts and maybe silver was deeper and maybe we should give the spot another shot and rig our 75's up with the larger 11" coil. And, thats what we did this morning.
As fate would have it, I finally got my coil over 3 silver coins, but only 1 had some reasonable depth to it. My 1st silver was the 64d Rosie and it was about 5" deep. My 2nd was the 44 Washington and that one did have some depth...at least 8". My 3rd silver item was the 925 arrow head pendent and it was near 6" deep. My last silver was the 42d Merc. and it boasts a depth of 4-5". Also dug 7 wheat cents, 10, 18, 20, 20, 42, 55 & 55 along with 82 modern coins. Of which, 37 were Memorials. My buddy also dug 8 wheat cents and 100 + modern coins. So, we are now pushing the 50 wheat cent mark from this spot and nearly 800 clad and cents.
Numerous 2 and 3 coins coming up in the same hole along with co-located junk and coins, too, so silver might just be hiding. We shall see. HH jim tn
You may recall from a couple of my previous finds posts that my hunting buddy and I had run into a spot that was loaded with clad along with some silver jewelry finds and a fair amount of wheat cents, 30, had also come to light, but not one silver coin had been found. We were both pretty be-fuddled of why no silver coins had shown up, but a pretty good batch of wheat cents had. After our yesterdays hunt we got to talking about the "bank" as we had dubbed the spot since it had yielded us over 600 modern coins over three different hunts and maybe silver was deeper and maybe we should give the spot another shot and rig our 75's up with the larger 11" coil. And, thats what we did this morning.
As fate would have it, I finally got my coil over 3 silver coins, but only 1 had some reasonable depth to it. My 1st silver was the 64d Rosie and it was about 5" deep. My 2nd was the 44 Washington and that one did have some depth...at least 8". My 3rd silver item was the 925 arrow head pendent and it was near 6" deep. My last silver was the 42d Merc. and it boasts a depth of 4-5". Also dug 7 wheat cents, 10, 18, 20, 20, 42, 55 & 55 along with 82 modern coins. Of which, 37 were Memorials. My buddy also dug 8 wheat cents and 100 + modern coins. So, we are now pushing the 50 wheat cent mark from this spot and nearly 800 clad and cents.
Numerous 2 and 3 coins coming up in the same hole along with co-located junk and coins, too, so silver might just be hiding. We shall see. HH jim tn
HH jim tn