Learned my lesson

[WV62]

Today I was back near the same location as were I found the half dollar that I cut pretty badly with my shovel a few weeks ago.

We had been hunting for several hours and nothing but a couple of wheat pennies, so we stopped for lunch. After lunch we were at it again and I got a nice lock on number of 86 on the F75 and the confidence meter was saying it looks good to me. I knew it was a little too high to be a quarter so I thought I would call my brother Greg over and let him run his F5 over it and see what he thought. He checked it and said it is a half dollar at 2” and he has never found a half in his life.

The Lesson: So after pinpointing it I took a nice wide plug and laid it back and there was a nice 1954 Franklin half seeing the sun for the first time in 50 or so years.

This half is only number 5 for me so it is a big deal for me when I find one.

Ron in WV

 

[Elton]

n/t

 

[CZconnoisseur]

Yep, Ben is quite the elusive character nowadays! Fantastic find!

 

[mudpuppy]

Yes Sir! Those are about the rarest half found from what I can tell...my dream coin right there, I have never found one yet...that one is in great shape..Congratulations
Mud

 

[foreign object]

Dang good find.
You done well.
FO

 

[Keith F15D]

Nice Franklin Ron, still on my bucket list.

Keith

 

[Spider-F5]

WooooHoooooo! She sure is purdy. as others, i have never found one either. congrats to ya sir..... and more HH to ya.

<Spider

 

[WV62]

Thanks guys, we are heading back to the same area in the morning. I am changing things up a little, I am switching from my little 6" elliptical to the NEL shooter. My thought is to be able to cover a little more ground and with the extra depth I should be able to hold the coil off the ground when needed to get over sticks and snakes.

Ron in WV

 

[KennyD]

Wow ! That's a beauty Ron, congrats!

 

[IBdiggin]

Absolutely beautiful ---------IB

 

[prankster2u]

Congrats on the very cool find.

 

[pasttom]

I recently found my second CLAD half. Silver is SOOOOOO much sweeter. Nice going Ron!

 

[WV62]

Thanks pasttom and congrats to as well on your half, it is so cool after digging a few thousand smaller coins and then out pops a coin that seems the size of dinner plate. Another trophy for your collection.

I have been hunting since the late 70's and I am still looking for my first clad half.

Ron in WV

 

[Monte]

always a fun find for me. Actually, any silver is a fun find, but when I say 'rare', I refer to the fact that it is a Franklin. Halves were a lot more common in the '60s and through most of the '70a and early '80s, but most that I found back then were Walking Liberties. I kept track of my urban coin hunting finds [size=small](not old-site stuff)[/size] from 1996 thru 2011, and in that span I recovered 46 Half Dollars. A lot of city recoveries were clad, but of the silver halves it was about a 1 Franklin to 13 Walking Liberty ratio.

I'm off for the deer hunt and, hopefully get to work in one old homestead in the woods while gone [size=small](if I get my deer first)[/size]. Maybe there's a half waiting for me?

Monte