CARTWHEEL OR NOT------HOW PLEAD YOU?????

[D&P-OR]

Bryce's great find on that "silver lady" got me to thinking about this.---Any interesting stories about cartwheel (silver $) finds?--I've found 2-my wife has found 1.-----My first one was in an old town park about 10' from a huge tree. I got a hit with my Explorer (stock coil) and dug down 4-5 inches & hit a huge root. I kept getting a tone coming from under that root and had to burrow off to the side of the root & down-hard going & quite deep. It was a real battle but when I finally brought it out of there-it was an 1879S Morgan. I had "jowed it" a little in the process and I hated that.----My second one was in an old fairgrounds in a really high trash area-using the Explorer (Joey coil). It was an 1886P Morgan. The "cartwheel" wasn't all that deep but the masking around it was terrible.----The sad thing was, in both cases-I didn't bring along a clean pair of shorts!! I guess that's something you should always carry in the car "just in case" you come on a "cartwheel". ha----The third one-my wife found in an old town park-an 1928S Peace dollar. This place had been "beat to death" but that dollar was there for her to find.--She found it with a Fisher CZ-3D (stock coil) & quite deep.--I was as thrilled as she was.----How plead you on this--GUILTY OR NOT??---------Later, Del

 

[NealNoIN]

n/t

 

[BlackX]

...so no good stories.

I thought you meant one of these

until I read it.

 

[D&P-OR]

BlackX------Guess I'm showing my age again-some of us old fogey's used to call the old Morgan U.S. dollars "cartwheels". To be right honest with you-I don't know when they stopped calling them by that "nick name". Whether they were still called that in the Peace dollar series or not. In any case, that grand hunk of silver went out with the Peace dollar-pieces of our nations history that is "no more".------Del

 

[mj-air23]

Never heard the term "cartwheel" before, but I was ready to do one after I found my first, and so far, only Morgan dollar. Actually, when I pulled that big silver disc out of the earth, I looked up, and thanked the big guy upstairs for his gracious gift and then immediately called my wife and told her what I found. After I quit shaking, I went about five feet from where I found the silver dollar and pulled up a beautiful Walker half dollar....What a day! And the best of it all, it was my birthday....awesome!

 

[D&P-OR]

mj-air23-----Well, it's obvious to me----both the Morgan & the Walker were a gift from God to you on your birthday.--- You're right-AWESOME!------Del

 

[Big Fang Coin Biter]

The first one is a cool story. I was hunting around an old abandoned house (had permission). I had found a couple IHs but the place was a junk pile. The ground was dry and hard and after digging some squashed can pieces I figured the large hit was probably more junk. I cut around three sides of a plug and pried on it to get it up. All of a sudden the plug let loose and flipped up, out of the hole, landing upside down. Laying in plain sight on the bottom of the plug was a 1897 Morgan! I about fell over. My second was found this year at some road construction in a mud puddle. It was caked with crap so it was not as exciting a find. Cleaned up nice though.
HH - BF

 

[MAcle1997]

I found a 1901-O about five inches down just a few feet from the edge of the
street. A neighbor had stopped by to see what I was doing. I was explaining
the hobby to him when I got a 00-26 and guessed that it was probably trash.
I had never found a silver dollar before, so I didn't know any better. We were
both surprised when I pulled that coin out of the ground.

Mark

 

[NH Bob]

None of which were silver

 

[D&P-OR]

NH BOB----You did really good!---My wife keeps records & it took me recovering 37,681 coins before I ever even found my first Susan B. Anthony dollar.-and then it was on a sand beach, of all places. ha.---I have found several Sacajawea dollars, but those "Susies" were nigh onto impossible (for me) to find.-----Del

 

[AUDuke]

I found three of em plus some other old coins in the remains of a coin purse when i was detecting a ghost town in 1972.
DV