Hit a huge field today, only the second time at this site.  There are the visible ruins of a very old house, which I hit the first time I was here last fall, but came up empty.

Today I hit the area around another house that shows up on the 1930s era aerial photo, but there is no trace if it now.  Just 10 minutes into the hunt hit an 11-46 on the E-Trac, which is usually a clad quarter, and was quite surprised and elated when this popped out.  My first ever 4 reale, and only keeper of the hunt.

A bit weird to have a hole in one side but not the other. Looking at the hole, it looks like a small image of the king in it.  I don’t know enough about these things to know if that was intentional at the mint, or post circulation, or I’m just seeing things.

I now have the half reale, 1 reale, 2 reale, and 4 reale.  Just need the big one.  Good luck with that.

These are from a huge field I’ve been working off and on over the past few years. It can only be worked when the hay isn’t up. Its given up about 8 coppers, but only one silver. I like detecting here as it is a nice place with a nice view, but as a silver guy, it can get quite tedious if you are into the excitement of silver in the hole.

Today I dug a musket ball and a toasted KG III. I rarely dig musket balls, and they are quite a thrill for me. It wasn’t a military site (AFAIK), so I imagine the owner trying to shoot a deer or turkey back in the day for dinner.

Only 4 silvers so far this year, and 2 have been half dollars.  This is the same site I found the walker at, and posted about a week or so ago.  Only site that has given up silver this year, tho I have only been on 5 hunts.

This was a measured 10 inches deep, and that is not counting the turf, so call it 11.  I rarely find coins this deep, in fact, this is easily my deepest measured coin find.  And it sounded pretty good on the E-Trac too.  And, as I mentioned earlier, this is a hunted out site.

I don’t know that I can ever get away from the E-Trac; I guess I’ll try the Nox when the E-Trac stops hitting them.

First copper of the year.  This is from a site I was hitting a bit last summer, and it gave up 20 silvers including a double digit day, but the good areas seemed to have run out.

This copper gives hope to the seemingly dry areas.  I thought the site dated back to the 1920s, but I looked at a map from 1901, and found a house near where I found it.  Around here, if a building is on those maps, it is usually from at least 1800, so there is hope.

Back to the the site of the walker, and managed to squeak out another silver in 2.5 hours of 40 mph wind.  This was one of those E-Trac deep silvers where you just know it is a silver before you dig, and you know other machines missed it.  The Nox may be a better machine, or so they say (but my jury is still out), but the E-Trac is just more fun.

Even tho this site is on the stingy side, it always seems to give up something, and as it has given up a reale and a copper in the past, you always have a chance at a big fish.

This site is hard hit.  I see other plugs and other detectorists here all the time.  Just proves machine and skill still have some value.

Well, I’d like to be finding more silver, but we’ll take ’em one day at a time.  I intend to hunt mostly fields this year, so I don’t see a big silver number at the end of the year, but it is nice that this field, based on its history, can give up modern silver when the old fish are not biting.

3rd hunt of the year, and 3rd this week.  First hunts since last fall, and managed to snag a walker.  Sparse site, but it often gives me something good; I’ve pulled a reale and a barber quarter out of here in the past.

Grass is only mowed once a year, so you can only hunt it in the spring.  2 hours in, I had only 4 coins, and nothing old, so I was getting frustrated.  This was a real screamer, and I didn’t think it had much chance of being a big silver, but there is was, at the bottom of the hole.

This part of the site is difficult to work, as there is alot of high tone trash in the area, and it is tough to work around.  Large pieces of copper from who knows what, and after digging a few, you get burnt out, and have to go by size and sound, and hope for the best.

I imagine that is how this was missed, as it is a difficult guessing game.