{"id":695,"date":"2012-05-24T18:06:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T22:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapsurfer.com\/blog\/?p=695"},"modified":"2012-05-24T18:06:38","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T22:06:38","slug":"barber-silver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/archives\/695","title":{"rendered":"Barber Silver"},"content":{"rendered":"

Got out today to the site I’ve been working recently.\u00a0 Blew it off yesterday cause it was grass mowing day (note to newbies — get friendly with the maintenance people and learn the grass mowing schedule (the detecting is always better the day after, for obvious reasons), and if you can get in a rhythm of cycling sites based on grass mowing day (and yes, it takes some luck, but it is possible), you will find more silver).<\/p>\n

Today started out dead, dead, dead, dead, and, then, did I mention catastrophically dead?\u00a0 My arm hurt from the lack of targets.\u00a0 I even dig clad when in this state to rest my arm, and could not even find that.\u00a0 But, that section of the site ended (which, BTW, was 2 feet at one edge from a silver from the other day, so it wasn’t totally irrational), and I moved on to another, less promising section.<\/p>\n

But, first hit was an 11-47 on the E-Trac, which is always a clad quarter, and I dig ’em cause they become beer money, but I was shocked to see the shiny disk not 3 inches deep.\u00a0 Thought it was a bottlecap at first.\u00a0 Why 11-47, I dunno, must have been affected.<\/p>\n

Next target was a deep, iffy signal, sort of like a 35-50 silver, but with more bounce, and more of a sweet sound, and it was a 1913 barber dime.\u00a0 Nice.\u00a0 This silver was definitely affected, as there was a marble-sized blob of iron in the hole with it..\u00a0 Also pulled 6 wheaties from this section, the oldest being a 1930.<\/p>\n

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But, there’s more.\u00a0 Check out this ring I dug.\u00a0 The f’ing thing is the size of a quarter.\u00a0 Who has fingers this big?\u00a0 Too bad it was base metal; had it been gold, I could retire now.\u00a0 Geez.\u00a0 Also dug this cool looking 6gr silver ring, which I forgot to post with the above silver coins.\u00a0 This ring marks my 100th career silver bling\/relic (as opposed to coins, which is in a completely different ballpark, of course).<\/p>\n

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