First Silver!

[Todd S]

Hi all,

I'm still trying to figure out how to post my pictures-too tired to try again tonight after our hunt at the Park.

I have been detecting for a couple of months, mostly with a Bounty Hunter Quick draw that I got for my birthday....and which served to get me addicted! I just bought an M 6, and today March 14, 2008 I found my very first silver-a 1923 Mercury Dime! I have found several wheats, but no silver until today. Quite exciting! There is no comparison between detectors-I love the M 6!

 

[billiard rich]

Well Todd, congratulations on your find. The March date makes me suspect you are trying to post a picture, but it didn't take. By now you probably know that to upload, you click on that paper-clip icon, specify the file name in the new window, and upload it. If you're not sure if the upload worked or not, before submitting the post, press the Preview Post button instead. Then you'll see what the real post will look like, and if your upload worked or not.

One thing to try is taking pictures with less resolution. Find the resolution setting on your camera, bring it down to almost the lowest setting, take a picture, upload it to the computer, them try uploading it to the forum. It might work. (But remember to reset the resolution back to where it was before you take regular pictures.) If you are using a scanner to scan your coin, you will need to bring the DPI setting down to keep the image size down.

Don't give up.

 

[Schrecky]

Way to go, Todd. I love those Merc's, pretty cool that a Merc was your first silver.

 

[Nor'Easter]

Congrats on the Merc. Keep at it and you'll find that gold your're looking for.

 

[OkieDigger]

That is a very nice first!

 

[ironpit]

Still looking for my first merc.
What a great first find.

 

[funnyfarmman]

My camera won't go low enough for uploads and that caused me lots of problems in the begining. If you are getting the "to large" message, open the picture with "paint" which is on every computer sold with windows, and under IMAGE, select STRETCH / SKEW and change values to 50% and try again. You may be having a differnt problem but that is the one that always gets me. I am hoping to find a garage sale camera that is old enough to take crappy pics. My current one starts at 7.2megapixels, and does not go down enough to load without shrinking, so hence I don't post pic's of my finds much.

cb

 

[RickO]

Nice find... Merc's and Walkers are always 'heart thumpers' when they show in the dirt. RickO

 

[Judy]

Congrats on your first silver! Boy it sure took me a long time to get my 1st...but it'll stick with ya for along time to remember!!!

Hope the 1st of many more for ya :tumble:

 

[TerryEastTexas]

Good going. There'll be many more to come.

 

[SeabeeRon]

Sounds like great finds Todd!! You'll get the photo thing figured out.