This measly haul represents 4 hunts this week; one merc from Monday at my “bulk silver” site, now up to 20 silvers included that seated quarter, and a new site, a sort of out of the box field between where 2 old farmhouses were.

2 hunts at the field produced the merc, a buff, and a handful of wheaties.  Its always the sort of site you can get a big fish, tho.

Someone on a forum suggested that they no longer got excited about finding mercs.  If its not a seated or reale, forget it.

Me?  Never!  I love the experience of finding even a lowly rosie, and the hope, when you get “that sound”, it could always be something spectacular.  You’ve gotta dig the mercs to get that big fish.

As for the title, Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito is an awesome book I just finished.  Its fiction, for those who read science books, but it is not science fiction.  It is also hilarious, which is rare in science books.  It is hard to describe.

I didn’t know this was a thing, but apparently you can make rings from coins.  There are a ton of videos out there on how to do this (basically, you hammer down the edges into a ring shape, then drill out the middle, at least that is how they appeared to have made this one).

Well, I found one of these yesterday, at the same site I’ve been working recently that has given up some barber silver and a few IHs.  You can see the lettering from the edge of the coin on the inside of the ring, if you look hard enough.

This one was made from an SLQ; you can see the words “QUARTER DOLLAR” and the stars.  No date, so it was probably one of the dateless ones.  Good thing, I suppose, as I would have had a heart attack if it were a 1916.

Also found a regular silver quarter (1934), which I got pretty well with my digger.  Oh well, good thing that wasn’t a 1916 SLQ either.

Back to the seated quarter site, which, aside from that coin, is really modern silver site. So, scored 3 modern silvers from the site over the last 2 days.  Site is up to 19 silvers given up, not too bad as these things go.

Six hours of detecting, 3 silvers, so 1 for 2 hours.  A far cry from the one per half hour days, but the thrill of seeing the shiny in the hole never goes away.

I suppose I’ll just have that experience less frequently.

Back to the site where I found that seated quarter (duh, who wouldn’t), and no more silver coins after a long hunt, but at least a sterling ring.

Then back to another site in my current rotation, an old site that has given up several Indians, and a handful of silvers, including 2 barber dimes, where I am certain I am going to get a real old silver, but today, a 1910 wheatie, a modern silver quarter, and a 1893 Chicago/Columbus World’s Fair medallion to show for a morning of heat and bugs.

And some idiot drilled a hole in the medallion, presumably so they would not lose it.  How did that work out for them?

I did find a picture of it online, but no info on rarity; it is probably a common one, and given its condition, its likely worthless even if a rare one.

Now, why couldn’t that 1893 medallion been an 1893 quarter?

Finally got my seated I was hoping for over the past few weeks, but not at the site I expected.  And not at the field either, but at my bulk silver site.

4 hours of hunting, and nothing but clad.  Clad clad clad.  Quarter after quarter, and since I’ve found a couple of silver quarters here, and even a half, I was feeling like, statistically, I should have found a few by now.

Eventually I got a shiny coin in the hole, and figured it would be a 40s or 50s quarter like all of the silver here, and was shocked when a seated quarter popped out of the ground. Not only that, but a CC silver on top of it, my first ever.

Then, not 15 feet away, I found 2 dimes in the same hole for a hat trick of silvers on the day, but the seated quarter is one of my nicest, and I am still stoked about it.  Only career seated #7 for me.

Hit a new site for me, an old house in the woods. Not many good signals, but I did find two coppers in one hole.

One was an 1847 LC, and the other was a copper pendant, looks like from around 1914 and railroad related [info from the Token Catalog]

In the process of alternating between 3 sites right now — the site with the indians where I’ve found a couple of barbers and hope to find a seated, a huge field with no silvers yet but a handful of coppers and an indian, and the third site being a “bulk silver” site that  dates to the 50s.

Worked the latter the other day, and pulled a walker and a quarter.  12th silver from the site; site is huge, hope there is more there.