{"id":2400,"date":"2014-03-03T18:51:08","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T23:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapsurfer.com\/blog\/?p=2400"},"modified":"2014-03-03T18:58:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T23:58:34","slug":"virginia-silver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/archives\/2400","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Silver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scored my first silver of the year, on 02\/27.\u00a0 Whohoo!\u00a0 Lets show that one big, strong, and proud, cause I ain&#8217;t seen one come out of the ground in a very long time &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/022714.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2401\" title=\"022714\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/022714.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/022714.jpg 645w, https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/022714-300x274.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/022714-327x300.jpg 327w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is still too much snow around here to detect, but I took a roadtrip to Mississippi to escape the cold and snow (not with any intent to detect, but I threw my detector in the car just in case), and I stumbled upon a sweet looking site along the way in small, remote town in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>In the first 5 minutes, I had a bottlecap, wheatie, and silver.\u00a0 I figure its a 50 to 100 silver site, but I had to press on.\u00a0 Too bad, cause I don&#8217;t know when I&#8217;ll be back that way.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t have a chance to do any other detecting on the trip.\u00a0 Too bad, cause its still to cold and snow-covered around here.<\/p>\n<p>So, Virginia is my 11th state where I&#8217;ve found a silver coin.\u00a0 Finding silver on the road actually turns out to be kinda hard, cause its not the thing you are gonna waste time researching, so you have to luck into driving by silver sites.\u00a0 In this case, tho, I might research the site and go back someday (but only if on the way to another goal).<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;ve found a total of 8 coins so far this winter.\u00a0 3 coppers, 2 wheaties, 1 silver, and 2 clads.\u00a0 Nice ratio, I guess.\u00a0 Hopefully, winter will be over soon, we&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scored my first silver of the year, on 02\/27.\u00a0 Whohoo!\u00a0 Lets show that one big, strong, and proud, cause I ain&#8217;t seen one come out of the ground in a very long time &#8212; There is still too much snow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/archives\/2400\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2400"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2403,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions\/2403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}