3 silver quarters and a Seated

longbow62

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I got out awhile with my buddy Garrett today. The first tear down we hit was a bust, just a little bit of clad. Terribly trashy. We finally decided to move. He was swinging the 900, and I was swinging the Manticore. We moved to another empty lot where a house had once stood. The house has been gone for several years. It had been hunted before by Garrett, but not with any SMF detectors that we know of. Right out the gate Garrett comes walking over with thin dime in a clod to play the one dime game. It was very thin so I called Seated. Boom! It was, and only his second Seated ever. The place was very trashy in places, and constant iron grunts. Melted aluminum blobs, can slaw, the typical urban blight tear down spot. It was old though so I dug more trash than usual not taking any chances. I had dug a little clad and a lot of junk when I got a quarter signal bouncing 88-90 one way. If you turned on it then it got nasty sounding. The trace on the Manticore was a blob on the non-ferrous line one way and the other it was ferrous pulled down into the non-ferrous line. I dug it and there was iron the hole. It ended up being two silver quarters that had been touching. I probably separated them digging around for them. One quarter appeared to have iron adhering to it. There was a werid flat piece of iron in the hole near both of the quarters. That was my first ever two silver quarters in the same hole. A few minutes later Garrett gets a another silver quarter. Anyway it was getting late when we got there, and we are going to go back tomorrow and see how it goes. It's not a lot of fun swifting through that mess until you find silver.
 

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Most EXCELLENT!!. Tear down sites are just like dumpster diving. Sometimes you just have to dig through the trash to get to the real good stuff. You did good.
 
That was some good digging. Every time you find a keeper in the junk, it’s reinvigorating to keep up the search. Hope you find more goodies!
 
I got out awhile with my buddy Garrett today. The first tear down we hit was a bust, just a little bit of clad. Terribly trashy. We finally decided to move. He was swinging the 900, and I was swinging the Manticore. We moved to another empty lot where a house had once stood. The house has been gone for several years. It had been hunted before by Garrett, but not with any SMF detectors that we know of. Right out the gate Garrett comes walking over with thin dime in a clod to play the one dime game. It was very thin so I called Seated. Boom! It was, and only his second Seated ever. The place was very trashy in places, and constant iron grunts. Melted aluminum blobs, can slaw, the typical urban blight tear down spot. It was old though so I dug more trash than usual not taking any chances. I had dug a little clad and a lot of junk when I got a quarter signal bouncing 88-90 one way. If you turned on it then it got nasty sounding. The trace on the Manticore was a blob on the non-ferrous line one way and the other it was ferrous pulled down into the non-ferrous line. I dug it and there was iron the hole. It ended up being two silver quarters that had been touching. I probably separated them digging around for them. One quarter appeared to have iron adhering to it. There was a werid flat piece of iron in the hole near both of the quarters. That was my first ever two silver quarters in the same hole. A few minutes later Garrett gets a another silver quarter. Anyway it was getting late when we got there, and we are going to go back tomorrow and see how it goes. It's not a lot of fun swifting through that mess until you find silver.
Awesome!!! Congrats!!!
 
Some very nice finds Longbow! Since I’m always looking to expand my horizons, a question. You say an “empty lot”. Is this a city/town/village owned piece of property and if so, how does one find out? Thanks!
 
I got out awhile with my buddy Garrett today. The first tear down we hit was a bust, just a little bit of clad. Terribly trashy. We finally decided to move. He was swinging the 900, and I was swinging the Manticore. We moved to another empty lot where a house had once stood. The house has been gone for several years. It had been hunted before by Garrett, but not with any SMF detectors that we know of. Right out the gate Garrett comes walking over with thin dime in a clod to play the one dime game. It was very thin so I called Seated. Boom! It was, and only his second Seated ever. The place was very trashy in places, and constant iron grunts. Melted aluminum blobs, can slaw, the typical urban blight tear down spot. It was old though so I dug more trash than usual not taking any chances. I had dug a little clad and a lot of junk when I got a quarter signal bouncing 88-90 one way. If you turned on it then it got nasty sounding. The trace on the Manticore was a blob on the non-ferrous line one way and the other it was ferrous pulled down into the non-ferrous line. I dug it and there was iron the hole. It ended up being two silver quarters that had been touching. I probably separated them digging around for them. One quarter appeared to have iron adhering to it. There was a werid flat piece of iron in the hole near both of the quarters. That was my first ever two silver quarters in the same hole. A few minutes later Garrett gets a another silver quarter. Anyway it was getting late when we got there, and we are going to go back tomorrow and see how it goes. It's not a lot of fun swifting through that mess until you find silver.
Congrats to you and your buddy on the silver longbow. Sounds like a pretty good day. Good luck. Mark
 
Always love seeing seated come out of the ground. And how amazing is it when quarters are the icing on the cake!
 
Some very nice finds Longbow! Since I’m always looking to expand my horizons, a question. You say an “empty lot”. Is this a city/town/village owned piece of property and if so, how does one find out? Thanks!
We use a website connected to our county accessors office to find out who owns it. We actually ask the guy who is in an investment group that owned the property. We have a general permission to metal detect all that groups empty lots. This group buys up dilapidated housing and tears it down to get rid of some of the blight in the area. Depending on the area something eventually goes back up in it's place. Of course the worse the area the longer it will be before being reclaimed.

We hunt many tear down lots. Actually that's where a good portion of my silver has come from. Another couple of corporations has bought up and torn down many houses in older parts of town. Some we just hunt without asking as no one has ever said a word to us about it. These are as I said a corporation or investment group owned, not by a single individual.
 
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