Shallow Silver !!

[JohnTN]

I found a 1941 Mercury Dime at 2". I have dug many deep coins in the 8" - 10" range just never found a shallow one in this park where modern clad can sometimes be 6" - 7" deep. I usually walk right over shallow coin signals as I hate digging clad. The Etrac is so distinctive on the sound it makes for silver that I could not in good conscience walk over this shallow target that sounded like silver and bang the sound is right even though the numbers are pretty much the same for a clad and silver dime.

 

[davew0710]

I got two merc's yesterday at 4." The numbers for silver are the same as clad, but you sure can tell silver by that screaming warble. Personally, I dig any signal that gives me a warble.

 

[C&RHunter]

The only Morgan dollar I have found was 2"- 21/2" deep with a clad dime right above it. The area has been hunted by others, and a hunting partner had been over it minutes before me. (He was looking for silver tones and deeper signals) Too bad for him good for me...So sometimes a nice coin is shallow, not often, but enough to make me dig shallow targets....But that is a choice we all have to make for ourselves..HH

 

[McNickle]

I found a 1941 Mercury Dime at 2". I have dug many deep coins in the 8" - 10" range just never found a shallow one in this park where modern clad can sometimes be 6" - 7" deep. I usually walk right over shallow coin signals as I hate digging clad. The Etrac is so distinctive on the sound it makes for silver that I could not in good conscience walk over this shallow target that sounded like silver and bang the sound is right even though the numbers are pretty much the same for a clad and silver dime.

[size=large]I know how it feels.................I hunted in an old park for 5-6 hours,and had no silver......Yet when I started to walk back to the car...just by the play ground 100 foot from the car....I decided to catch up on my clad count,& started digging Shallow targets...(4" and less)......cond 45 and up.. I had not went 10 feet,and dug a merc at about 3".......
.....................................................................................In another old park my buddies were getting skunked........It was Insane Trashy,and after about 2 hours they were ready to leave......we took a break,and were talking..They were saying " Have not seen many targets over 5-6"......this place is way too trashy....want to hit another spot near by ?....I said .' I'm doin fine......Got 3 mercs'.They looked at me puzzled and said..' How Deep?'..............I said......all about 2 to 4 inches ..........L.O.L.......................We stayed most of the day,and pulled out a total of 11 silvers for the day between 3 E-Tracs..............I only left with those 3 mercs tho..................on another day.....I took a friend (with his E-Trac).....and his Father with his (DFX) tO A GOOD SPOT (TRASHY THO)........i DUG A MERC & BARBER DIME....... mY e-tRAC BUD DUG A ROSIE ,ih.AND OTHER GOODIES..AND JUST BEFORE DARK.HIS DAD GOT A S E A T E D D I M E ....@ (1")...........Must have been dropped by a sad hunter soon ago. [/size]
[size=x-large]Hey,,,,,a P.S. to this......................Have you ever dug a merc at 4",,,,,,,,,then 15 - 20' further down ....dug 8" for a Clad Quarter ???.......I have..........and it's a heart stopper ...........L.O.L.[/size]

 

[Magicman]

Odd how that happens. Lately I have been finding wheats not even an inch and a couple inches away is a clad dime that is deeper. I was in Atlanta at a park and I was telling my brother about looking around old trees and there on the ground was a wheat for someone to pick up......... I dug an SLQ at two inches and the clad around was four... The stories the coins could tell if they could talk.

 

[terrywl]

My first Merc with my E-Trac was on the surface!, good tone, repeated, looked and there it sat. Lots of rodent mounds in the area, so thanks little guy is my guess.

 

[akelley]

What a coincidence! I found a 1942 Mercury dime at ~1" next to a tree in a local park in San Francisco this weekend. I was so excited, given this was my first Merc ever (I've been detecting since Jan'09). Well my excitement was short lived after I realized I had scratched the back of it. Being so close to the surface, I thought it was just another clad and so I wasn't being careful enough with my digging. After digging over 1000 coins, I just couldn't believe I scratched my first Merc . I hope someone will remember this the next time they get a 44-46 signal close to the surface.

-Alex

 

[Magicman]

I treat almost everyting I dig as a speical coin, unless I am sure it is a penny.

 

[D&P-OR]

Some time back my wife found a Barber dime in the grass roots in the grassy strip between the road & the sidewalk right beside where we parked the car.----Just a few days ago, I found a "47 Rosie one inch deep in an old park.--That same day & in that same park & in that same area I was digging clad at 6" deep--go figure! Fill dirt?--I dunno!--But I could give you a lot of stories like that.--It get's wierd sometimes. ------Del