Same small town, produces big silver!

[DiggerAl]

I am beginning to REALLY like that town that me and my dad have been going to. The last few days have produced a "first". Besides yesterday, we have gone there 4 days in a row, and each time produced something amazing. We were going to go to a park in this town to try it, but there were tons of kids and baseball games in all of them, so we decided to ask a few houses again. We knocked on a little old mining house. Turns out it was built in 1865. I felt kind of bad, because I never let my dad use HIS E-trac! Hah! In the front we didn't get much, just a toy car, but in the back, I finally let my dad have the E-trac, but then he gave it back so he could talk to the home owner. Literally not even 5 seconds after he gave me the detector, I got a nice screaming 12-48, 11-47 about 6-7 inches deep. When I got my plug open, I tried digging a bit and hit something big so I figured it was ANOTHER pop can. I stuck the probe in and was getting the same numbers, I pulled out some dirt and put it all on my rag, and the big thing was still at the bottom of the hole, but the signal was gone. I took out my Pro-Pointer, and rubbed it over the top of my dirt pile. In one of the sweeps, I removed the dirt to reveal the face of a Franklin half. I was extremely happy!

[Digger Don]

Nice job Alec. It wasn't that long ago that you got excited about finding wheat cents, now you don't even mention them :lol:
The 1909 you dug tonight was really nice also.

[Skamaniac]

I would love a Franklin half! Nice job.

[milco]

Great find! Keep hitting those sites.

[Tony Two-Cent]

That Franklin Half is an awesome find, Alec! HUGE congrats on that one! I have never found a Franklin Half, it's still on my bucket list.

You're really starting to do well with that E-Trac! :thumbsup02:

:congrats:

[The Rebel]

WTG on the big silver!

[RobW]

:clapping:...awesome find!!!!!!

[don in ny]

Way to go on the silver half. Franklins are far rarer to come out of the ground than Walkers. Found quite a few walkers and even a couple of Barber halves, but only 2 Franklins. Nice find.

[giant056]

Fantastic score on that big SILVER :thumbsup02:

[Full Metal Digger]

Congrats Alec! That is indeed a hard coin to find. They were in production a short time and were very quickly hoarded when we went off the silver standard in 1964. Best wishes and HH, Dave.

[Lodge Scent]

Nice! Yeah, you don't see many Franklins come out of the ground.

[wisconsin digger]

In the last 3 years I have found 1 so that is a great find. Big silver is always nice. Wisconsin Digger

[Otis Campbell]

Very nice find there for sure! Nice Dad too!

[del]

:wow: A Franklin half :smitten:great coin to find Alec :clapping:

[Timewarpdigger]

That's a nice Ben!!! Congrats!!!