Popular Post UT Dave Posted May 9, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted May 9, 2022 I got my Nox 800 in Sep. and have been having what I think is pretty good luck with it. Park hunting isn't my favorite, but it's what I mostly do because I can get in an hour or two after work or between honey-dos. My goal for this year, was simply to find an 18xx anything US coin. Penny, dime, whatever, as long as it is 1800's. I had reasonable confidence I'd find one this year. But I never expected it to happen in a park! But it did. Short park hunt today. Not very deep, in some tree roots. A 1895 S Barber! Couldn't hardly believe it! Up till now, I've found only two silver Rosies in the parks around here. The other Barbers and the one Merc I've found were at ghost town type sites. So I was sure my 18xx coin was going to come from a site like that. But, nope, park find! I have been on a tear on the park .925 and gold lately though. Counting today, five out of my last six short park turf hunts have produced silver and one of them produced 14kt gold. From just the last couple weeks of short park hunts: I find those sterling CTR rings fairly regular. I guess because silver coins are so few and far between for me in the parks, I call those sterling CTR's "Mormon Mercs". No offense to my Mormon family, friends and neighbors of course. But they are by far my most common .925 finds. Anyway, stoked to break into the 1800's! And it looks like the 1895 S is a semi-key date to boot! - Dave 20 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F350Platinum Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 Nice finds UT Dave, I've been detecting for nearly two years now in lots of old places but Barber coins still elude me. We have no parks here however. ? Great stuff, and congrats on the silver and gold! That 800 is killing it. ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UT Dave Posted May 9, 2022 Author Share Posted May 9, 2022 21 minutes ago, F350Platinum said: Nice finds UT Dave, I've been detecting for nearly two years now in lots of old places but Barber coins still elude me. We have no parks here however. ? Great stuff, and congrats on the silver and gold! That 800 is killing it. ? I'll trade you my Barbers for that half a half ?. - Dave 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F350Platinum Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 7 minutes ago, UT Dave said: I'll trade you my Barbers for that half a half ?. - Dave Spanish silver is pretty common in Virginia, and apparently in the West. ? I've only found Seated Liberty coins recently, and one Walker. Standing Liberty and Barber coins are still on my list, although a friend found a Standing Liberty at one of my permissions early on. I'm still trying to figure out the progression from seated to standing to walking, no such reference exists. ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Againstmywill Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 2 hours ago, UT Dave said: I find those sterling CTR rings fairly regular. When I moved from Salt Lake to Florida four years ago, my CTR ring finds became non-existent. Before that, silver CTR rings were almost a given at school playgrounds. I only found one gold men's CTR ring, but it is in French. I found it on a hunt with my wife--a rare treat indeed--on a soccer field. Before getting out of the car, I said that we are going to find gold today. I gave her the G2 and I told her to dig all the aluminum signals she got. I was using the E-trac, and about 50 ft from where she was digging, I got a nice signal. Out popped my one and only gold CTR. As I recall, she did have a nice pile of pull tabs.? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calmark Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 Perseverance paid off for you today. Congrats on getting a sub-1900 coin! Also, nice haul of silver rings and the gold too. Not easy to find stuff of quality like that among the junk unless you do a lot of digging. I bet your next sub-1900 coin comes again soon. You have over half the year left to hit your goal again! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valens Legacy Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 Congrats on the silver, the 800 can find it easily no matter where you are at. I love the way it hits on the silver when I get a chance to hunt, and I like the way it has brought me a couple of trimes. They were deep but hit them hard, and I had to look closely just to see them in the dirt I had dug. Keep up the work and you will find more even older. Good luck on your next hunt. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCtoad Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 Hell yeah! Nice collection of rings and congrats on getting into the 19 century? Btw, what’s a ctr ring? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F350Platinum Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 50 minutes ago, NCtoad said: Btw, what’s a ctr ring? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choose_the_right ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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