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cwilk

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Answer: None. My new found silver coin style seems to be working out. Silver coin for past 5 of 6 hunts. It is all a matter of site selection. Anyhow, it is my first ever Barber Quarter, my first ever Barber coin with my 2500, my oldest silver coin with my 2500, and maybe a few other superlatives. I got a few Barber dimes with my 250 early in my Garrett days. All but one I was forced to turn over to the homeowner due to a misunderstanding we had where he thought everything I found belonged to him. Back in the day when I was using a BH Tracker 4 I found a much higher percentage of silver coins and older small cents including a few in the 1890s. Then one day when I ran out of old homes to detect I hit my first school (it had never entered my mind that there was loads of loot there) and you all know the rest of that story.

I am super stoked!!!

Got a good silver site planned for either Saturday or Sunday if it isn't too muggy.

By the way. The site was a 4 minute walk from my house and I used my 12.5" imaging coil. (It's also my best find with my big coil.) Took me a few targets remaster pinpointing with it. I was digging some targets down around 8-10 inches many of which were square nails. The quarter was down around 6 inches and was my third dig of a one hour hunt. Luckily I didn't gouge it because my pinpoint was slightly off. Due to the flash, my photo doesn't represent that the coin has a full, but weak, Liberty. The reverse is very sharp. I'd grade it as Fine.

Chris

PS Also got 3 wheats and a bunch of deep clad coins.
 
Nice quarter cwilk!! :thumbup:
 
Minty looker of a find. Congrats !
 
WOW :yikes: thats a stunner of a find Chris :thumbup: congrats hopefully you"ll keep the silver streek up.
lazyaussie
 
Excellent score Chris,:thumbup:

I've noticed that your silver finds are increasing, I like it.:yo: Speaking of gouging those pretty silver coins, I've been thinking that a nice long deer or elk tine might serve better than a screwdriver for rooting around in the dirt, especially if you suspect your target is a silver. I doubt that it would be hard enough to leave a mark on a coin but should have enough tensile strength to not be easily broken. I have one in my bag, ready to go, but have not had a chance to try it out yet. I will test it out on one of my silver GW's and see what happens. I'm wondering if anyone else has ever tried this?:shrug:

Steve
 
Great find!:clapping:I've found many silvers in my day, but that is one I've yet to find. Well done, sir! Happy Hunting!:)
 
The signal made me think silver or deep wheat. The coin was on edge so the signal was only one way and it bounced around quite a bit. I was taking more care than I would with a clad coin I was using the big coil and I stupidly didn't detune to get a really accurate pinpoint. When I went to dig around and below where I thought the coin was I found it in some packed, but wet, dirt on the side of my hole. When I dig clad I do as little to disturb the ground as possible and if I'm really going to concentrate on finding some older stuff I'm going to have to expand my excavations a bit to avoid damaging something good.

I also found one of those pesky iron washers at least a foot deep that was a strong half dollar signal. My arm was down in the whole almost to my elbow. When you get down that deep you have to remove quite a bit of dirt from a hole, a lot more than I'm accustomed to. I should have brought a board to place the dirt on. The ground was soft an crumbly so I was able to use my fingers to probe. Probably why I got cut last Saturday. It would have been hard to manipulate a probe or a deer tine in a hole that deep.

I think I got off topic from your reply. I guess I just have to slow down and get out of the mode of digging 30-40 coins an hour when there is the possibility of old silver coins around. I was lucky not to damage this nice old coin. Maybe adding a deer tine to my arsenal is in order. I would have to reprogram myself which might take some time.

Chris
 
I put the big coil on my 2500 after about 3 weeks and never took it off and I've found a lot of really small goodies with it including both small gold rings and a few silver dimes. It's much easier to locate targets but a little more difficult to single them out.

I tested the deer tine theory on a silver coin and could not get it to leave a permanent mark no matter how much pressure I put on it, how it stands up to prying around in the dirt will take some field testing.

Steve
 
"The coin was on edge so the signal was only one way and it bounced around quite a bit."

Did it still ring up as a B size target?
 
Yep size B but the depth was way off. I think it indicated 2-3 inches.

Chris
 
Nice find! Those Barber quarters are pretty elusive here as well, way to go on getting one in such nice shape.
 
Hey Chris

What is your secret? Fess up buddy.

We all aren't were you are so we are no threat:twodetecting:

I am dying to find coins like that (I am compiling a large list of possible homesites that could cough up many of those beauties!

Don
 
Umm.....luck. Persistance?

Chris

Seriously, I'd say it's persistance.
 
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