3 Silvers And A Diamond Ring

[Skookum]

Not too shabby for an Arizona weekend. (We don’t have the old stuff you others have got in the ground.) Three straight days of detecting yields an 1898 Barber Quarter, 1945 Mercury dime, 1951 Franklin 50 cent piece, Utah state tax token, 13 Wheat pennies, some other trinkets, and a 14k gold/platinum setting diamond ring. Not shown here was also a serial number stamped on a plaque from an 1880s sewing machine and a whole pile of other junk. I’m most excited about the Barber and the 50 cent silver. The quarter was about 6-7 inches down and on edge. It sounded good both ways, but swinging inconsistent numbers on the Equinox 800 in Field 1 with the 15 inch coil. I surmise the yard had been cleaned out before even though the owner thought it had not. That was one of it’s only few coins in 8 hours of detecting it—and the yard was massive. Conversely, the Merc., Franklin, and most of the Wheats came from the another small 8’ by 16 ‘ front yard that took only a couple of hours to detect. The diamond ring came from the old school house. Left by someone else unwilling to dig a repeatable number 12 target. Can’t wait to do it again, but going to need some muscle recovery time from all those lunges and precision digging. 

 

 

[kac]

I usually take a soft toothbrush clean water and some baking soda to take the dirt off the silver. 

[Skookum]

I've found that works really well for cruddy coins, as well.  I wanted to baby this one, so I brought it home dirty and put it in the sonicator.

[GB_Amateur]

Great haul, even for a long weekend!  In particular you must have been getting baked.  Not sure why you're downplaying your finds by saying:

2 hours ago, Skookum said:

We don’t have the old stuff you others have got in the ground.

unless you're talking to the Brits.?  Yes, the East coast has some older stuff but they still have to dig through all the modern coinage (and trash) to find it, and even for them they're a pretty rare find.  Thanks for posting such good photos and hope you can make it out again soon.

[Skookum]

Thankfully, we made it to the mountains. Maybe I would have died in the heat if I tried doing that here in the Valley. 

[MichaelDigger]

Nice finds! The coins are in a good conditions. ?

[Skookum]

Thanks.  I did some minor cleaning to the Barber.  The Franklin and the Mercury didn't need anything!

[Mark Gillespie]

Fantastic hunt.  Never found a 90% silver half.

[Skookum]

I imagine I may never, again, as well!