first Franklin half

[DougF]

A little chilly this morning, 38 degrees, with a steady 20-25 mph wind blowing. I wanted to get out one more time before the Turkey day holiday. Started out on the lawn area at the park, but we are in a drought situation and the digging was hard. Also out in the open the wind was tough. Moved to the wooded area where I have found a lot of silver coins. I hoped that with the vegetation killed by the freeze, I might be able to get to some new areas. After an hour or so, found a honeysuckle patch where I could get pretty close to the ground and got the 1952D Roosevelt. Went over to a spot where I found four Wash. quarters and got a solid 00-27. Wasn't sure about it, since I had found a lot of aluminum can ends like in the photo, and they sometimes give that type of signal. This one was 4 inches deep though and the can ends normally near the surface. Turned out to be a 1952 Franklin half. Total time was 2 hours and 15 minutes. Pic is everything I dug, except I dug (or picked up) about ten more of those can ends.

 

[MikeO]

Congrats on your first Franklin Doug.
Nice big hunk of silver for sure.

 

[BigTony]

Doug, congratulations on those cool finds! I was just talking about this exact issue, how to find a half. Or why haven't I found more then two over the years.
Thanks for the numbers because I feel I am missing silver and have recently started digging 00-27.

 

[UtahRich]

Congrats on your first Franklin Half Doug!

Rich (Utah)

 

[park pirate]

Nice one....

 

[JeffInMass]

Congrats on the awesome Franklin- still chasing my first one of those after 25 years.

-- Jeff --[size=large][/size]

 

[0z0ne]

Sweetness!

I'm also waiting on my first silver half. My dream is for it to be a Franklin!

Way to go!

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[TwoRivers]

Real nice finds...........