wisconsin digger
06-19-2016, 09:07 PM
I was away on a fishing trip to Canada and was anxious to get back to swinging being only 4 silver short of 900. Went out to an old Church I have depleted pretty well but managed a Rosie and a couple of wheats. After taking my son fishing on Fathers day I planned on hunting a couple of hours in the evening (really HOT in Wisconsin) hoping to find 3 silver. The Park I went to has some mixed history. It has a ballfield now but many of the coins I've found predate the field as the field does not show up on 1939 aerials. The problem at the field is the old coins are really deep and the grass is pretty tall. The Park should yield some nice coins next spring when the grass is low. Hunt started out pretty slow as I was barely finding any clad much less any old coins. First decent signal was really deep and a decent high tone. I was expecting a silver dime at best but was shocked to see a bigger silver rim. Coin spill, as I got a 1912 "V" nickel pasted to the face of a SLQ. This was my first Hi-relief SLQ with a date, 1920 "D". That would of made my night but I continued and got another weaker deep signal. This turned out to be a 1902 Barber Dime. Now I was one away from 900. Not long after the Barber dime I got a surprising pretty decent 12-45 really deep signal again. Another surprise when I found the coin was quarter size. A slight brush of the dirt and I was shocked to see a Barber head dated 1908, Number "900". After that I just decided to go home as I didn't think anything could make this hunt any better. That was the 3rd Barber coin from this small Park. Happy camper in Wisconsin on Fathers Day. Keep swinging Wisconsin Digger