Finally Got The Safari Over Silver

[ngrelic]

Went to an old church that is no longer in use yesterday. Got a 1943 mercury dime @ 9 inches, also some clad. Really had to work for the dime, it was under 6" of hard packed gravel and then 3" of red clay. Took a picture but I can't get it small enough to post.

Barry

 

[Elton]

n/t

 

[Ray in WA]

Great find, ngrelic!! And at nine inches, that is quite an accomplishment! My deepest silver is only at 7" thus far. Give us some details on that deep silver...what mode? ferrous or conductive tones? What did the signal/tone sound like?

Ray

 

[ngrelic]

Thanks Guys, I was hunting in conductive audio, C/J mode rejecting -10 thru +5 and +40. Sensitivity @ 16. The signal was a high "flutie warble" and the numbers bounced from 36 to 38. My digger has a 7.5" blade and the dime was another inch and a half deeper, and that's being conservative.

About half of the face of the dime has a black crust on it that will not brush off, may have been laying on a piece of iron in the ground???? Hopefully I'll find more silver before time to start relic hunting again.

Barry

 

[Captain Hook]

Congrats on the silver! Sounds like you really had to work for it.

 

[ngrelic]

Thanks Dale......Yeah it took a little while to dig it out, more like chip it out.