08-07-2015, 09:10 PM
I did take a couple days off because of the heat and work related complications and today I really didn't expect to find anything out of the ordinary because I have been through this very large section of woods a gazillion times and there is so much more territory to cover I just couldn't resist. But these woods have produced, so far this year, 22 silver coins. And today, 10 feet from a few rather large stones I never saw before, which could have been a campfire ring, up pops this very rotten looking 1918 S (S of all things) Mercury dime. I wish I would have taken a picture of it when I first found it. It was so dirty and crusty I thought it was a clad dime. A little scrub with my nylon brush and some water in the field and up she comes being a Merc. I cleaned it up a bit more at home and I cannot describe the color on the obverse with the staff and the S mark except that it's a brilliant steel gray. The color on the reverse with the date is about as close as I can get after taking about a dozen photos of it under different lighting conditions. It looks like it was in the campfire or under the leaves during a small forest fire. I'll never really know, but most silver I find doesn't come out looking like this! She was 4 inches down in clay soil that was hard as a rock under a thin layer of leaves.
And the usual fare when out in the woods, headstamps, a few old memorials, 3 -.45 slugs, 2-.22 bullets and one lonely 22 long casing.
Have fun out there and HAPPY HUNTING!!
ODF
And the usual fare when out in the woods, headstamps, a few old memorials, 3 -.45 slugs, 2-.22 bullets and one lonely 22 long casing.
Have fun out there and HAPPY HUNTING!!
ODF
