Late Winter Big Silver By The Lake

We have had some warmer than usual weather here in SE Wisconsin that has allowed me to get out detecting earlier than usual. While most flat grassy areas are still frozen, hillsides that get sun are thawed.

I've been out to a park along Lake Michigan, just north of Milwaukee, three times in the last two weeks. It was an old homestead that became a park in 1929. I have found three silver Roosevelt dimes there in the past.

The first two hunts didn't yield much, but last Saturday afternoon I hunted the very southern end of the park in a hilly wooded area right by the lake.

I didn't find anything but a zinc cent for the first hour, but moving up from the beach to a flat area of the woods just above the beach, I got a solid half dollar signal on my ACE-250. It's a signal I hardly ever get. I dug a big plug and out popped a 1935 Washington quarter!

About fifteen feet away another signal yielded a five Wheat cent spill: 1929-S, 1938, 1942, 1944-D and 1945. Judging from the wear on the coins I'd suspect they were lost in the late 1940s.

I hope to get back there again this week.

The photos show some ice along the shore, the 1935 right after I'd pulled it out of the ground and the Wheat cent hole with the lake in the background.