First silver half...It's a Barber!!!!

Hit some more sidewalk strips and got lucky again.  After a couple of wheats, I hit the merc.  Just a few feet later I got a 08-47 on the E-Trac.  I thought it was going to be a quarter.  I flipped it out of the ground, and saw it was a silver half.  I thought for sure it was a Kennedy, or a Franklin,  or maybe a Walker.  Nope, BARBER!!!!

I found the ring a little later.  What a great day!!

Another sidewalk silver. #4

Had a nice hunt this morning.  Hunted a few different sidewalk strips, and one yard.

5 wheaties and a 1960d Rosie.

Anyone know what the Elgin item is?

More silver from the sidewalk strip!

A first for me, a silver quarter.

 A cool old watch fob too!

Another sidewalk strip Merc!

Hunted a private yard today with mediocre results. I did find one wheat, but mostly clad.  I moved over to the sidewalk strips, I don't know what they're called... you know the strip between the sidewalk and the street?  Yeah, that's the one I hunted.  I found another wheat and the Merc.  I am loving this machine.

Third hunt with E-trac first Merc!!!

Lovin' it!

I can't believe I'm finally finding old silver coins.  It is why I started detecting in the first place.

2nd hunt, first silver!!

Didn't take long!

E-Trac time!

I finally sold all of my Ace250 gold, and bought the E-trac.

Four new Records!!!! One Hunt!!!!

I broke four records today, and tied a fifth!
First I broke my nickel record that I set yesterday. Yesterday from the cold wet ground I dug 15 nickels, a new record after two years of beeping. Today, I broke it with a total of 19 nickels. I broke my penny record, previously 85, today 103. I tied my previous dime record of 28. I broke my number of coins record previously 139, today 177. I also broke my total clad count record, previously $9.77 today $12.28! It was a great morning in the wood chips!

10-01-2010 Challenge finally completed!!!!

It took way longer than expected, but it is done. The totals are, 75 quarters @ 18.75, 91 dimes @ 9.10, 40 nickels @ 2.00, and 261 pennies @ 2.61. For a total of 467 coins @ 32.46. Take the challenge, let me know your totals!

09-25-2010 California Trip.

I went to a park in California last Friday. It is a good looking park with some old trees. I noticed that someone had recently moved two picnic tables. That is where I started hunting. My first find was a nickel. My second was a 1 gram Engelhard gold bar!! I could not believe it! About three targets later I pulled the 14k 7 Diamond gold ring!! A pretty good day. I noticed I had a flat tire, and had to call it quits. I only hunted about an hour, what a day!