The old Guru stumbled upon a mini-bonanza today that includes 11 silvers, some Buffalos, wheats, etc.

[RickIowa2009]

Alot of nice silver

 

[Uncle Willy]

Just think, next year will be much better as you gain more confidence and experience and your finds will increase.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah don't forget those platforms if you ever come across one and searching under the stand, if you can, where coins wind up. Once hunted a stand at a local school and there was zilch around it but I got down on my knees and checked under it and there was about two bucks in the areas I could reach. The path spectators take from the bleachers to and from the stand is a hot spot many times.

Bill

 

[brulon]

great hunt uw. just goes to show, it"s still out there. you just got to look for it.


bill

 

[KRT (Ont)]

Congratulations on a great hunt and the determination that went with it. Us old farts need a hunt like that just to remember what is was like a way back then when the old coins greeted us with every hunt. Your find gives us hope that somewere there is still the old ones waiting for us to uncover them. Congrats again HH Ken

 

[Uncle Willy]

Out here in rain country if they didn't have a platform on the dirt they'd soon have a mud hole. Plus it helps the short folks reach the counter.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

In those days the nickel was the "king" coin as you could buy so many things with one - double-dip ice cream cone plus all other frozen confections on a stick, any candy bar, any kind of pop, a 16 ounce schooner of beer that included a free sandwich, a loaf of bread, quart of milk, two nickels would pay your way into the movies and three more would buy you a popcorn-coke-candy bar, everything in any vending machine was a nickel, and the best - all rides at the carnival or fair were a nickel.

Bill

 

[marcomo]

Wow, Bill, your excitement is contagious.

Your instincts and experience took you where others wouldn't go. What a great hunt!

And you're not old, you're "legendary."

Sounds better, doesn't it?

 

[khouse]

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[PennyFinder]

WTG! Uncle Willy, sure is sweet to the soul to attend a " silver anniversary roadrunner convention"! Nice shootin' and a reckonin'! Congrats...beep,beep! LOL!
Sure glad you had a Garrett detector and not one of those Acme brands, like those silly coyotes use!
A bada bada bada bada, that's all folks!

PennyFinder

 

[kwdstalker]

very nice bunch of silver

 

[Gene]

Great story Bill and some great coins ! Can't imagine how many must have been real close
to that stand many, many times. You made the score though in a big way. Who says that
there aren't many silver coins out there anymore. You and the crow bar made the difference.
Looks like I need to start carrying more tools. Glad to see see you hit it big Bill !
Persistance pays off one more time. HH Gene

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah! Legendary fart. That sounds better.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah it was something else way back then. Course at the time it was just normal. Many years ago I hit a small school in a little logging town in Washington that had never had a detector waved over it. When I walked around in back and took a look at the playground covered in ancient bark chips, bleached white with age, and beat down flat as a pancke I knew I had arrived. When I swung the coil over it in any direction it was the "convention of roadrunners" with beep! beep! everywhere. I couldn't dig the coins fast enough. I spent several hours there huntingall over the school and pulled out about 300 coins, about half of them silver.

The heart breaker was the old stage coach stop in the field next to the school. It was completely grown up in briars. I managed to squeeze inside the building without getting ripped but found only some old silverware buried in the dirt floor. Wrote that one up for one of the treasure mags.

Bill

 

[metalhead]

Hey, that's totally awesome Uncle Willy! CongratsHappy Hunting

 

[cwilk]

You and a crowbar is a scary thought! You must post photos of the carnage.

Chris

 

[roceda]

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[Uncle Willy]

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