Uncle Willy
New member
Went back to the park where I found some nice rings awhile back and found another one out in a big open area where folks play with frisbees and toss footballs around. The ground was rock hard in spots and I just stuck my big scewdriver in the ground and leaned on it and the ring was my first silver find. Found two con spills. One was three quarters and a dime.
While scanning around and between the roots of a big oak tree I got a mixed signal of ring-a-dings and the display was bouncing from half to a dollar and back, so I stuck my big screwdriver in the dirt as far as I could and leaned on it. Out popped a rock hard clod and stuck in the clod was Miss Walking Liberty 1935 smiling at me. AS I admired the little beauty I remembered that mixed signal so scanned the hole again and got another ring-a-ding, ring-a-ding. Poked around in the hole and out jumped Miss Standing Liberty 1927. I couldn't contain myself and danced a little jig. A young fellow nearby hollered over, " Boy that must have been a spectacular find."
I replied," Yeah it really made my day."
Walking over to see what I had found I handed him the half and he remarked, " Damn, I ain't never seen one of these. What a beauty. To think we used to have real money like this."
I said, " Yeah not many young folks have ever seen one as they have been out of circulation for many decades and there weren't that many lost."
After ogling the coins a bit he of course inquired about getting a detector. I informed him that he need look no further than what was in my hand. It's been a year since I found my last silver coin so this was a banner day for me and will be tough to top for some time.
Bill
While scanning around and between the roots of a big oak tree I got a mixed signal of ring-a-dings and the display was bouncing from half to a dollar and back, so I stuck my big screwdriver in the dirt as far as I could and leaned on it. Out popped a rock hard clod and stuck in the clod was Miss Walking Liberty 1935 smiling at me. AS I admired the little beauty I remembered that mixed signal so scanned the hole again and got another ring-a-ding, ring-a-ding. Poked around in the hole and out jumped Miss Standing Liberty 1927. I couldn't contain myself and danced a little jig. A young fellow nearby hollered over, " Boy that must have been a spectacular find."
I replied," Yeah it really made my day."
Walking over to see what I had found I handed him the half and he remarked, " Damn, I ain't never seen one of these. What a beauty. To think we used to have real money like this."
I said, " Yeah not many young folks have ever seen one as they have been out of circulation for many decades and there weren't that many lost."
After ogling the coins a bit he of course inquired about getting a detector. I informed him that he need look no further than what was in my hand. It's been a year since I found my last silver coin so this was a banner day for me and will be tough to top for some time.
Bill
One fellow on another forum couldn't figure out how the 250 got mixed signals on the two coins because his DFX wouldn't do that. What can I say.