Three Day Silver Harvest

[angellionel]

My Internet connection has been down for the past three days now, and I'm not sure when the outage at my ISP will be corrected. :bangahead02: :bangahead02: In the meantime I have kept myself busy detecting at a few locations in CT and MA. :yes:

Friday

This past Friday was a very windy and cold day, but I did take some time to head to a Connecticut park to detect for a while. I was an icicle by the time I had to leave! At least I had four silver coins in my pouch, a 1914 Barber dime and three mercury dimes, dated, 1924, 1940-S, and 1943. I also picked up an old silver signet ring and a part of a bracelet, sterling silver with a gold piece inlaid. :cool:

These are the 1924 and 1943 mercury dimes while encased in soil.

http://www.angellionel.com/myfinds/2010/March/1924mercinsoil_032610.jpg

http://www.angellionel.com/myfinds/2010/March/1943mercinsoil_032610.jpg

My silver take for the day.

http://www.angellionel.com/myfinds/2010/March/silverdimes_032610.jpg

I wish the bracelet had been intact, but I think I got the best of the pieces. I was not able to locate the remaining pieces. :bummer:

http://www.angellionel.com/myfinds/2010/March/silverandgold_032610.jpg

This sterling silver ring sure looks nice.

http://www.angellionel.com/myfinds/2010/March/sterlingsilverring_032610.jpg

A few wheat cents found their way into my pouch too. The small gold piece was in the hole with one of the wheat cents.

http://www.angellionel.com/myfinds/2010/March/wheatcents_032610.jpg

Saturday

This turned out to be a very good Barber day. I returned to the same park to work another section, this time gridding a small part of it and going over the area from different directions. At the end of the hunt I had in my pouch eight silver dimes, a Seated Liberty, dated 1874, four Barber, dated 1901-O, 1905, 1910, and 1911, and three mercury dimes, dated 1917, 1941, and 1944.

There was no doubt as to what this one would be. :grin:

http://www.angellionel.com/myfinds/2010/March/1874seatedinsoil_032710.jpg

The 1917 mercury dime.

http://www.angellionel.com/myfinds/2010/March/1917mercinsoil_032710.jpg

Another eight silver dimes added to the collection. :thumbsup01:

http://www.angellionel.com/myfinds/2010/March/silvercoins_032710.jpg

I'm not sure what this silver piece may have been part of but it's a keeper.

http://www.angellionel.com/myfinds/2010/March/sterlingsilver_032710.jpg

Several more old wheat cents and a 1905 Indian Head cent.

http://www.angellionel.com/myfinds/2010/March/wheatcents_032710.jpg

Sunday

Today I met up with midas to detect at a local site. It was my first time at this particular location, but we felt it had the potential to yield a few old coins. I did manage to dig up four silver pieces by the end of the hunt, a 1942 Washington quarter, a 1944 mercury dime, a 1912-D Barber dime, and a 1897 Victoria Canada Silver 5 Cent piece.

The size of a U.S. half dime, this silver 5 cent piece made for a wonderful find.

http://www.angellionel.com/myfinds/2010/March/1897canadian5cent_032810.jpg

These four bring my total silver for this year to 194, 157 of them this month alone.

http://www.angellionel.com/myfinds/2010/March/silvercoins_032810.jpg

The wheat cents, a 1903 Indian Head cent, a sterling silver piece, and a large copper slug.

http://www.angellionel.com/myfinds/2010/March/coins_032810.jpg

A nice and heavy silver ring.

http://www.angellionel.com/myfinds/2010/March/silverring_032810.jpg

HH!

[z118]

Mental Note: If I want to be happy about the two stinking silver Rosies I found this weekend, then DON'T LOOK AT ANGELS POSTS! :lol:

Holy cow just plain nuts as usual. I bet you can hit 1,000 silver this year. Congrats as always!

[Lowjiber]

Very nice three days Angel. You are amazing.

[Ill Digger]

Man you can hardly tell that the barber dime and the Canadian 5 cent piece are silver coins.
I had to reread the part about the 5 center being silver...I asumed it was a nickel .
There I go assuming again :bangahead02: :lol:
Awesome as usual...and yeah the arrow next to the date gave me butterflys too and it's only a picture !! :lol:
Congrats :grin:

[yazoo]

Damn, You got that silver magnet dialed in mighty good. Great hunts, nice finds and a heck of a lot of silver. H.H. Yazoo

[CTDirtFisher]

Angel, Great 3 days! You rock :thumbsup01:

[coinnut]

Well it's nice to see that you weren't taking a break from silver hunting...I thought you might be slacking :lol: the Seated w/ arrows is real nice. Always fun to find the little Canadian ones :yes: Great haul of silver, too bad you can't get anything off of that large copper? Love the dragonfly ring and the large signet ring too. Nice and old ;) A nice couple of days hunting.

[del]

:shocked04: wow :shocked04: you deffinately wern't slacking :lol: :lol: great silver. Angel the seated is really a good looking coin and a very nice
fish scale as you don't see'em to often down this way. congrats again.

[Epi-hunter]

Beautiful coins, as usual :) And a very nice ring. What is the greenish thing at the top right of the photo below the 'AP Mechanic' photo? It looks like it has a stone in it.

[Cheap Thrills]

Great going angel . That silver bar that says AP mechanic adds on to a US Army qualifications badge ( like a Marksman , Sharpshooter or experts badge ) other examples off an add on would be
M-16 , M-14 , 45 pistol etc . That was a sweet 3 days . :thumbsup01:

H H ,
Baba

[xzlr8n]

I would be happy finding your silvercount in wheats, that says alot about my hunting grounds. Great job again :thumbsup01:. Hope your dial-up-connection speeds up :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[angellionel]

Thanks, everyone! :yes:



Mental Note: If I want to be happy about the two stinking silver Rosies I found this weekend, then DON'T LOOK AT ANGELS POSTS! :lol:

Holy cow just plain nuts as usual. I bet you can hit 1,000 silver this year. Congrats as always!


:lol: :lol:

A 1,000 year? :confused: You have been talking to Angie, haven't you. :lol:



Well it's nice to see that you weren't taking a break from silver hunting...I thought you might be slacking :lol: the Seated w/ arrows is real nice. Always fun to find the little Canadian ones :yes: Great haul of silver, too bad you can't get anything off of that large copper? Love the dragonfly ring and the large signet ring too. Nice and old ;) A nice couple of days hunting.


Unfortunately I haven't been able to make out any details on the copper. :bummer: It still counts though, right? :cheesysmile: :lol:



Beautiful coins, as usual :) And a very nice ring. What is the greenish thing at the top right of the photo below the 'AP Mechanic' photo? It looks like it has a stone in it.


That greenish piece is an old piece of fake jewelry, I think. :confused: Yeah, it's going into the 'pile'. :lol:



Great going angel . That silver bar that says AP mechanic adds on to a US Army qualifications badge ( like a Marksman , Sharpshooter or experts badge ) other examples off an add on would be
M-16 , M-14 , 45 pistol etc . That was a sweet 3 days . :thumbsup01:

H H ,
Baba


Ah! That is good to know. Thanks for the ID. :thumbsup01:



I would be happy finding your silvercount in wheats, that says alot about my hunting grounds. Great job again :thumbsup01:. Hope your dial-up-connection speeds up :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:


I have my connection back. No dial-up though. :lol: It was painful to not be able to get on the forum. :)

[coinnut]

Unfortunately I haven't been able to make out any details on the copper. :bummer: It still counts though, right? :cheesysmile: :lol:


Of course it counts, it only doesn't count if it'a a SLQ. :lol:

[angellionel]

Of course it counts, it only doesn't count if it'a a SLQ. :lol:


I have to keep remembering that. :lol:

[Ferrous]

AP mechanic, airframe and power-plant. It designates an aircraft mechanic. I am in aw of your silver finds. Keep em coming.

[CyberSage]

How do you get those coins out of the ground still in the dirt clods? I have always loved the way that looks in a picture. I guess my soil just wont hold together like that. I have tried with every dig to get that shot! Oh well, once again I lay down my V3 at your feet and give praise...

Long live Angel! God of Silver ;)

Jack

[SeabeeRon]

Yeah, you had Internet connection problems, yeah, riiiiiight......... :poke:
Awesome finds as usaul buddy!! :drool:

[upsmanpa]

:yes: :yes: :yes: Wow!! What a weekend! Way to go!!

[angellionel]

AP mechanic, airframe and power-plant. It designates an aircraft mechanic. I am in aw of your silver finds. Keep em coming.


Thank you Ferrous, and thanks for the additional details on the sterling silver item. :thumbsup01:



How do you get those coins out of the ground still in the dirt clods? I have always loved the way that looks in a picture. I guess my soil just wont hold together like that. I have tried with every dig to get that shot! Oh well, once again I lay down my V3 at your feet and give praise...

Long live Angel! God of Silver ;)

Jack


Not all the parks I frequent have soil that clump as shown in the photos, but for those that do it helps to break into the soil from the edges and carefully lift upwards once the plug has been cut. :yes:



Yeah, you had Internet connection problems, yeah, riiiiiight......... :poke:
Awesome finds as usaul buddy!! :drool:


:lol: :lol: I did! Really! :cheesysmile:

[John M]

Looks like a bountifull harvest Angel.

[Beefcake]

I can't think of a better way to spend 3 days. Amazing totals Angel! Should we start a pool for the end of the year totals... I'm guessing 784 for the year.

[Epi-hunter]

If you do it mathematically, he is averaging 194 coins/87 days or 2.23 coins per day. If you work that out for the remaining 278 days in the year, he should have an additional 620 coins for a total of 814. So I'll go with that. :grin:

But I set him a goal of 1000 for the year, which seems reasonable. :lol: :rofl:

No pressure Angel :rofl:

[angellionel]

I can't think of a better way to spend 3 days. Amazing totals Angel! Should we start a pool for the end of the year totals... I'm guessing 784 for the year.


A pool? 784? :confused: I don't think anything over 450 will be the case, BC.:lol: I appreciate the expressed confidence though. :yes:



If you do it mathematically, he is averaging 194 coins/87 days or 2.23 coins per day. If you work that out for the remaining 278 days in the year, he should have an additional 620 coins for a total of 814. So I'll go with that. :grin:

But I set him a goal of 1000 for the year, which seems reasonable. :lol: :rofl:

No pressure Angel :rofl:


Reasonable? :shocked04: Goodness!:lol: My goal is 400, not 1000. :cheesysmile: Behave yourself lady. :bop: :lol:

By the way, I removed the crusty dark sulfide from the 1897 Canada 5 cent piece, and then toned it a bit afterwards. I like it. :thumbsup01:

http://www.angellionel.com/myfinds/2010/March/1897canadian5cent_cleaned_032810.jpg

Here is the 1912-D Barber dime. :)

http://www.angellionel.com/myfinds/2010/March/1912Dbarberdime_032810.jpg

[coinnut]

Great job on the silver cleaning and toning. I'm putting in my guess for the number of silvers you find this year. My guess is 3. :rofl: So there you have it, goal exceeded!!! :lol:

[angellionel]

Great job on the silver cleaning and toning. I'm putting in my guess for the number of silvers you find this year. My guess is 3. rofl So there you have it, goal exceeded!!! lol


Now that's a more reasonable number. :rofl:

[Epi-hunter]

Three? :lol:

Those coins turned out beautiful Angel :)

[Ill Digger]

Wow Angel...those turned out real nice!!
Much better :thumbsup01:

[tanacat]

I'll go halfway between 400 & 1000, so ya'll put me down for 700 for the pool.... Btw, did you answer Angie about that one swirly piece with what may be a stone? Was curious about that one too. I love the ring with dragonflies- have always liked bugs for some reason :crazy: The coins cleaned up nice!

[angellionel]

I'll go halfway between 400 & 1000, so ya'll put me down for 700 for the pool.... Btw, did you answer Angie about that one swirly piece with what may be a stone? Was curious about that one too. I love the ring with dragonflies- have always liked bugs for some reason :crazy: The coins cleaned up nice!


I did, but I think it got lost among all the chatter.:lol: I think the greenish thing is an old piece of fake jewelry. :)

Oh, and the goal is still 400. :lol:

[Epi-hunter]

Btw, did you answer Angie about that one swirly piece with what may be a stone? Was curious about that one too.


He never answers my questions Tana :lol:

j/k :grin:

You and I think alike, seeing a possible diamond among all that old green metal :lol:

[angellionel]

He never answers my questions Tana :lol:

j/k :grin:

You and I think alike, seeing a possible diamond among all that old green metal :lol:


I did answer your question, you just skipped over it when using your Evelyn Wood speed reading technique. :lol: :lol:

[coinnut]

I did answer your question, you just skipped over it when using your Evelyn Wood speed reading technique.:lol: :lol:


Alright :thumbsup01: Angels gonna get it now for talking back to the girls :bop: :bop: :bop: Sit back and watch it unfold :rofl:

[angellionel]

Alright :thumbsup01: Angels gonna get it now for talking back to the girls :bop: :bop: :bop: Sit back and watch it unfold :rofl:


I'm a glutton for punishment! :lol:

Sorry Angie. :cheesysmile: :cheesysmile: It was the rum raisin ice cream. :angelic:

[Epi-hunter]

I'm a glutton for punishment!:lol:

Sorry Angie. :cheesysmile: :cheesysmile: It was the rum raisin ice cream. :angelic:


:lol: Come to Kentucky and I'll get you some bourbon balls :lol:

I know when to shut up George ;) :grin:

[tanacat]

Alright :thumbsup01: Angels gonna get it now for talking back to the girls :bop: :bop: :bop: Sit back and watch it unfold :rofl:


:bop: :ticked: he better watch his back - Angie's a tough one :lol:

[magic]

Be carefull Angel...You know what they say about the scorn of a woman!

[angellionel]

Be carefull Angel...You know what they say about the scorn of a woman!


You are right. :shocked04: I better :lipssealed: for now. I think I'll just go detecting and stay out of trouble. :angelic:

[HEAVYMETALNUT]

damn dude!!!! enough said....... :tongue: