MangoAve
04-23-2014, 07:18 AM
Having the old maps and knowing town history, I know there only stands one remaining school house out of 12 districts. Looking map over again and comparing to google maps now, I see there is an area next to a new school where the old school once stood. It looks like the school stood where there is a small field area next to a play ground. There is a small section, like three squares, that remain of an older sidewalk.
It started with a ton of old pull tabs from the 70's between 2 and 4 inches deep. Not sure if it was from new top soil that already had trash in it. Then finally something.. clad ranging from 1965 up to 1993. I was surprised to find a penny read in the 80 range and then I was gonna skip a 60 ish reading thinking it was another pull tab but it turned out to be another penny. Pull tabs were reading in the nickel zone. However I found one thing I cannot quite understand. I can put a pic if someone needs. I was getting a reading like a 50 cent, $1 coin. I knew it was a real signal. Thinking back to two weekends ago and people finding Kennedy's, I was thinking I found the same. I dug it up and I see it was just a bit bigger. But it's thinner. It is exactly the diameter of an Eisenhower $1 (or a morgan silver), but it's like the inner layer. I know conduit cutouts are round-ish, but one side is always flat. This is perfectly round. There are such things as sheet metal cutouts used for jewelry, but there is no hole in this. It's non-ferrous; I already checked with a magnet to verify but the redish color seems like some copper content. There are no markings. Even a school award or token would have some markings. To remove the silver layers from a coin would have to be done intentionally. Any ideas?
It started with a ton of old pull tabs from the 70's between 2 and 4 inches deep. Not sure if it was from new top soil that already had trash in it. Then finally something.. clad ranging from 1965 up to 1993. I was surprised to find a penny read in the 80 range and then I was gonna skip a 60 ish reading thinking it was another pull tab but it turned out to be another penny. Pull tabs were reading in the nickel zone. However I found one thing I cannot quite understand. I can put a pic if someone needs. I was getting a reading like a 50 cent, $1 coin. I knew it was a real signal. Thinking back to two weekends ago and people finding Kennedy's, I was thinking I found the same. I dug it up and I see it was just a bit bigger. But it's thinner. It is exactly the diameter of an Eisenhower $1 (or a morgan silver), but it's like the inner layer. I know conduit cutouts are round-ish, but one side is always flat. This is perfectly round. There are such things as sheet metal cutouts used for jewelry, but there is no hole in this. It's non-ferrous; I already checked with a magnet to verify but the redish color seems like some copper content. There are no markings. Even a school award or token would have some markings. To remove the silver layers from a coin would have to be done intentionally. Any ideas?