I went Saturday to search a sports field at a high school. The same school where I found the silver washer ? This time I was searching the football field and adjacent areas. I had searched some of this area last fall, but wanted to revisit it and search a few smaller areas that I hadn't searched before.
Right off the bat I saw that the vdi display on my F70 was giving me lower numbers than it usually does. I dug a 65 target expecting to recover a zinc cent and it was a clad dime. Then I dug a 75 target and recovered a quarter, normally that would be a clad dime. I was not sure what was causing the lower numbers, but I had come to dig most targets anyway regardless of what the vdi said. I was hoping to recover some gold, that was why I was digging almost all targets, had iron notched out.
The first hour or so was OK, I was digging some clad and some trash targets. I did recover the track and field medal, which evidently is base metal or pot metal, as it is deteriorating in a few spots.
I made my way past the end zone and crossed the track to search a grassy area. Recovered 4 or 5 clad dimes one right after the other. Then I got another signal that sounded just like the dimes I had just dug. Flipped the plug over and was looking at the rim of a large size coin about 2 inches down. It was almost perfectly vertical, had just a slight tilt to it. Picked it up to look at it thinking that it was probably a Mexican peso coin or british half crown. Then I realized what I had was a WL half dollar ! I saw that I had managed to nick it in a few places with my digger. Darn it ! But heck, its a Walker ! Those don't come around very often. I could read that the date was 1938 which I was happy about. So many of the WL's found seem to be from the 40's.
I was really surprised to find the big silver. I hadn't found any silver coins before at this site. Heck, I hadn't even found a wheatie yet at this site. And then out pops this Walker! Such a nice surprise !
Hunted for another hour or so, found some more clad and the junk ring. After a couple of hours, decided to call it a day as it was too cold and windy to stay any longer.
After I got home and cleaned up my finds, I googled walking liberty half dollars and discovered that the D mint mark is the more rare for the year 1938. Nice ! I was sure sorry that I had scratched it, but was still very happy to have found it.
As they say, you never know what might be under the coil.
Right off the bat I saw that the vdi display on my F70 was giving me lower numbers than it usually does. I dug a 65 target expecting to recover a zinc cent and it was a clad dime. Then I dug a 75 target and recovered a quarter, normally that would be a clad dime. I was not sure what was causing the lower numbers, but I had come to dig most targets anyway regardless of what the vdi said. I was hoping to recover some gold, that was why I was digging almost all targets, had iron notched out.
The first hour or so was OK, I was digging some clad and some trash targets. I did recover the track and field medal, which evidently is base metal or pot metal, as it is deteriorating in a few spots.
I made my way past the end zone and crossed the track to search a grassy area. Recovered 4 or 5 clad dimes one right after the other. Then I got another signal that sounded just like the dimes I had just dug. Flipped the plug over and was looking at the rim of a large size coin about 2 inches down. It was almost perfectly vertical, had just a slight tilt to it. Picked it up to look at it thinking that it was probably a Mexican peso coin or british half crown. Then I realized what I had was a WL half dollar ! I saw that I had managed to nick it in a few places with my digger. Darn it ! But heck, its a Walker ! Those don't come around very often. I could read that the date was 1938 which I was happy about. So many of the WL's found seem to be from the 40's.
I was really surprised to find the big silver. I hadn't found any silver coins before at this site. Heck, I hadn't even found a wheatie yet at this site. And then out pops this Walker! Such a nice surprise !
Hunted for another hour or so, found some more clad and the junk ring. After a couple of hours, decided to call it a day as it was too cold and windy to stay any longer.
After I got home and cleaned up my finds, I googled walking liberty half dollars and discovered that the D mint mark is the more rare for the year 1938. Nice ! I was sure sorry that I had scratched it, but was still very happy to have found it.
As they say, you never know what might be under the coil.
