Finally, after 8 months and untold hundreds of hours of metal detecting I finally found my first silver coin! I was totally caught by surprise too. I started metal detecting back in May of 2013 with my first detector, which was a Garrett AT Pro, then in October of 2013 I upgraded to the Minelab CTX 3030.
I found gold with the CTX right away but silver still had eluded me! It is hard to come by here in the Pacific NW unfortunately! I don't know if it is because we get so much rain that the silver sinks deeper than in other places, but probably most logically is we do not have the history here that the East coast and Midwest has.
The coin is a 1942 s Washington quarter, and it rang up on the target ID on my CTX as 12 & 13:46/47 which told me it could be silver, but I didn
I found gold with the CTX right away but silver still had eluded me! It is hard to come by here in the Pacific NW unfortunately! I don't know if it is because we get so much rain that the silver sinks deeper than in other places, but probably most logically is we do not have the history here that the East coast and Midwest has.
The coin is a 1942 s Washington quarter, and it rang up on the target ID on my CTX as 12 & 13:46/47 which told me it could be silver, but I didn
