Still no silver, but...
joefro
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I always seem to find just enough cool stuff to keep me going back out time after time. I decided to hit up a nearby school today before my semester gets even more hectic. No silver, but I did find my first Sac Dollar! IDed as a solid quarter, but the shiny gold busted through the surface at me. It's a 2000-P so I checked it to make sure it's not a Cheerios dollar since I found it on a playground 
I think those were 2000-P Sacs, right? Also found 3 different shells, seems like a dangerous school! Only other abnormal find was this older looking lighter. I have never seen a lighter with a mechanism like this, I'm not even sure how it worked when it did. On the bottom I can still make out "Studio 32 " and just below that is "U.S. Lighter Corp." But then it says JAPAN in tiny letters down the side. Haha. Here are the pics... sorry nothing too exciting. Spent about 2 hours total.
I think those were 2000-P Sacs, right? Also found 3 different shells, seems like a dangerous school! Only other abnormal find was this older looking lighter. I have never seen a lighter with a mechanism like this, I'm not even sure how it worked when it did. On the bottom I can still make out "Studio 32 " and just below that is "U.S. Lighter Corp." But then it says JAPAN in tiny letters down the side. Haha. Here are the pics... sorry nothing too exciting. Spent about 2 hours total. Lincoln Cent & Libertad Collector
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I found my first Sac last spring- it remains the only dollar coin I have ever found while detecting. Mine had been in the ground long enough to get dark. Yours looks much nicer. (Mine is also a 2000-P).
The number of cartridge casings, butllets, and live rounds dug in church yards, city parks and particularly school yards never ceases to amaze me. That's a big sucker you have there at the left side of the picture!
<< <i>I always seem to find just enough cool stuff to keep me going back out time after time. >>
And that's important. I remember in my early detecting days I got discouraged- bought my first modern detector in the spring of 1992, made a few finds in the fall of that year, and then lost interest, and the detector ended up in the closet. It wasn't until August of 1993 that I brought it back out again, and that particular day's hunting was discouraging. I was on my way back to the car to call it a fruitless day when I got a "penny" signal at about 4.5" inches. Figuring I might have myself a Wheatie, I dug. It wasn't a Wheatie, but it sure made me forget about quitting. It was an 1899 Barber dime- not only silver, but my first coin from the 1800s! Within an hour I had gotten silvered again and also gotten my second coin from the 1800s, this time setting my oldest date back to 1875. Prior to that afternoon, my oldest coin had been a 1926 Wheatie.
Hm. I see I made a typo in the picture of that Indian cent. It was found on August 8, 1993, on the same day as the other two.
You've got to find just enough to keep the fires burning and your enthusiasm sharp. Sometimes it's tough- we all have slumps. The afternoon of August 8, 1993 was the day I became a true, lifelong detector buff. I've had my slumps and my lulls many a time since then, but I will most likely always own a detector and will get out to use it at least two or three times a year, until I'm too old and crippled to swing the coil. After you find that first "something special" like the Barber dime was for me, you'll be hooked. It sounds to me like you might already be. Keep on going out, time after time. Good for you- Lady Luck favors the patient and persistent!