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Some inspiration for this year...... MANY pics:yikes:

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Mike Moutray - St.Louis MO

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I had always posted my year-end finds here, for several years, but I missed one year 2003. That year was my best ever, but the sheer number of stuff to sort and photograph kept me from doing it. Anyway I had started dating the lovely lady who would become my wife, so I didn't have the time even if I wanted to. But with the long layoff from detecting recently due to lousy weather, I got a chance to get all the pics together and post them here... kind of a testimonial to a great detector in the Explorer and many long hours hunting all over the midwest and northeast.

I found 578 silver coins that year - 150 of them Barber Dimes with dates: (4)1892,1893,1896,(3)1897,(7)1898,(2)1898O,(7)1899,1899O,(9)1900,1900O,(:geek:1901,(3)1901O,(4)1902,1902O,1902S,(9)1903,(6)1903O,(3)1904,(4)1905,(2)1905O,(:geek:1906,1906S,(3)1907,(4)1907O,(3)1908D,1908S,(2)1909,1909O,(2)1910,1910D,(6)1911,(3)1911D,(3)1911S,(5)1912,(5)1912D,1912S,(3)1913,(7)1914,(3)1914D,(9)1916,1916S. Over 40%of them have full LIBERTY on them, so I was lucky in getting many high grade coins.[attachment 50764 2003BarberDimes.JPG]

I was lucky with the larger Barber Coins too... 15 quarters: 1892,1897O,1898,1898S,1900,1901,1902,(2)1902O,1904,1906,1906D,1906O,1907O,1908. All of them graded full good and better, so I got many higher grade quarters as well. 3 Halves are:
1892S (Key Date), 1893,1908D.
[attachment 50765 2003BigBarbers.JPG]

The next Pic is some of the other big silver... Standing Quarters: 1917D Type1, 1917D Type2, (2)1920,(2)1925,1930,(6)Dateless and 3 Walking Halves: 1918, 1934, 1945.
[attachment 50766 2003BigSilver.JPG]

I found some very good buttons as well... an awesome silver plate Washington Inaugural, some nice Eagle buttons, St. Louis Fire Dept. Button, Portland, ME. Police Button, an Academic design button, and some others:
[attachment 50767 2003Buttons.JPG]

I did pretty good on the large coppers also. Some came from a couple trips to the northeast, but the rest were from the midwest states.
They are: Massachusetts Copper, dateless Draped Bust, 2 Dateless Coronet cents, and the dates on the rest are: 1822,1828,1829,(2)1846,1848,1851,1854.
[attachment 50768 2003Coppers.JPG]

Next Pic is a Hard Times Token and some Civil War Tokens:
[attachment 50769 2003CW-HTTokens.JPG]
Well, that does it for this post... many more pics to follow in next post. Take care and HH in 2007! Mike.
 
I used to always look forward to seeing what all you would find each day, particularly after the weekends.

Skully and some others have began to post some impressive finds regularly and it reminds me of when you were making your frequent hunts. This treasure hunting is exciting but I'm sure that your wife means much more to you than all the nice finds you have made.

Thanks for posting them for the rest of us though!

HH Alton
 
That is one heck of a haul! Very Nice Collection you found that year. Proof of what the Explorer's can do when in the hands of experienced user's. Hope you have a good hunting year this year Mike and look forward to your next Postings. Good Luck and HH.:thumbup:
 
I dont think that I want to hunt behind you.Do you hunt with other people,seems like you could get permission to hunt with one person better then two.That is just a question.Thanks for showing the pics.
crowduck
 
What an Explorer can do in experienced hands..Wish you luck in your new lifestyle and drop in from time to time...As good as an Explorer is I think you found something better...good luck in your ventures and hope you get out on a limited basis at least...With finds like that you should be the centerfold for any Minelab Explorer ad....
Personally would love to see a product report by yourself on the Explorer and would be a field test with many hours in the field....
 
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