For the curious, the coin is the size of an American half dime; slightly smaller than a dime, and thinner.\u00a0 On the E-Trac, came in at a CO of 35 to 37.\u00a0 Not something you would normally dig cause its in the dreaded zincoln zone, but if it has “that sound”, and is deep in an old field giving up colonial relics, you gotta dig em all.\u00a0 Of course, I dug a ton of zincolns today as well.<\/p>\n As much as I love the find, I’d love to nail another American silver of the same age. The universe mocks my every move.<\/p>\n As for the rest of the hunt, of course it was Farewell Farewell day, so the hunt was cut short a bit by a long lunch, but before lunch I pulled a silver Q along with the half reale, and after lunch I pulled 3 rosies, for a fivespot on the day.\u00a0 Not bad.<\/p>\n The site is now officially a “honeyhole”, having given up 41 silvers.\u00a0 I have named levels for sites at 3, 7, 14, 21, 40, and 100 silvers (as I said at 14, nevermind).\u00a0 This is my 9th site to reach 40 silvers; and I’m about 85% done.\u00a0 High 40s is possible here, tho of course we continue to work from expected most productive to least productive.\u00a0 We’ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A couple of days ago, I was whining about not being able to get into that dead zone of 1800-1890 silver at my current site, when coppers, IHs, and modern silver are present, as well as colonial era relics.\u00a0 This … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/102612a.jpg\" "\\"102612a\\"")
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