nugget108 1,125 Posted August 10 Nice walker Bill. Great job. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Terry Soloman 656 Posted August 10 Congratulations Bill! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
azdigger 1,262 Posted August 10 Another great Video, and a Super find Bill , very nice. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Randall 113 Posted August 10 Nice chunk of silver there Bill...Congrats! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mike Furness 1,177 Posted August 10 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Desertpilot 358 Posted August 12 Nice chunk of silver! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nugget Shooter 3,829 Posted August 13 Yeah I am Jazzed about that one, wish it wasn't been abused, but mine now and likely never another. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fredmason 859 Posted August 14 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CyHawkGold 2 Posted September 4 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BMc 433 Posted September 4 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 . . . Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nugget Shooter 3,829 Posted September 4 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fredmason 859 Posted September 4 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
