Nugget Shooter 4,614 Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 7 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nugget108 1,735 Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 Nice walker Bill. Great job. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Terry Soloman 948 Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 Congratulations Bill! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
azdigger 1,474 Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 Another great Video, and a Super find Bill , very nice. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Randall 114 Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 Nice chunk of silver there Bill...Congrats! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mike Furness 1,513 Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 Hey Bill nice find! I have found 6-7 of them over my lifetime of detecting since 1988. 2 of them fetched a pretty penny from the coin dealer I sold them to in NH back in the early 90's. Have never found one in AZ. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Desertpilot 571 Posted August 12, 2018 Share Posted August 12, 2018 Nice chunk of silver! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Au Seeker 3,153 Posted August 12, 2018 Share Posted August 12, 2018 Nice one Bill! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nugget Shooter 4,614 Posted August 13, 2018 Author Share Posted August 13, 2018 Yeah I am Jazzed about that one, wish it wasn't been abused, but mine now and likely never another. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fredmason 1,135 Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 Bill; I know that is hard ground, but...if you want to find coins without putting a nick in them you need better coin-digging technique....picking and scraping will not do.. please don't ask how I know! fred 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CyHawkGold 2 Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 On 8/14/2018 at 9:56 AM, fredmason said: Bill; I know that is hard ground, but...if you want to find coins without putting a nick in them you need better coin-digging technique....picking and scraping will not do.. please don't ask how I know! fred The damage to his silver half wasn't caused by his retrieval technique. His technique may need to be improved but none of his finds appear to have been nicked in any way. Great finds, congratulations. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BMc 1,035 Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 It's been rumored that he has, on possibly more than one occasion, managed to unearth a gold nugget without nicking, scratching and banging it up. If that's true, I suspect he could very possibly do that with a large silver coin . . . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nugget Shooter 4,614 Posted September 4, 2018 Author Share Posted September 4, 2018 On 8/14/2018 at 7:56 AM, fredmason said: Bill; I know that is hard ground, but...if you want to find coins without putting a nick in them you need better coin-digging technique....picking and scraping will not do.. please don't ask how I know! fred Yeah Fred I center punched a 1913 dime with a pick years back and that sucked lol, I dig around them now and pop them up, the ground here is so hard one of the cheesy little digging tools folks use in parks etc. will not work and shovels either in many places. Like trying to dig in a concrete parking lot 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fredmason 1,135 Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 CY: I know that he didn't do that damage... BMC: you assume he has not damaged a nugget...I know I have and I bet Bill has done so too. Bill, I hear you, my friend...I really did not think you needed any mentoring...but, others might. Somehow those coins are often right at the edge of the hole where scaping is easy...in parks a big hole is not the thing to do. Where you are digging it is fine... stirring things a bit fred Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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