A Dime Good Summer

Skamaniac

Skamaniac

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Well, before this summer I hadn't dug any silver coins, mostly because I spent the last two years trying to reconstruct locations of old logging mill and donkey sites. But this summer I got hooked on coinshooting after my first find. For some reason I found the dimes in reverse order though, starting with a seated Liberty and ending with a Rosie.

1887 Canadian dime, 1891 seated, 1900 Barber (same day, same yard) 1943 mercury, and yesterday I pulled a 1950 Rosie (along with a 1964 5 centavos Mexican coin). The three newer dimes are S mint.
 

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I thought you did coinshooting but come up with relics. You always come up with relics no matter where you hunt (as long as you dig the iffy signals that sometimes turn out to be coins). Nice score on those dimes.
 
Lodge Scent said:
Dime shame I didn't find all that silver. Ska, without sounding too much like an ass, what is a "donkey site" ?
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A donkey was a steam powered winch, usually mounted on skids for portability, used to pull logs to a wagon or railroad landing back in the day. They were used all over the Pacific Northwest and if you can find a site where one was in use there's hand tools, axe heads, saw blades, etc around. The donkey boilers and cable drums are almost never found though, because they were stripped away during WWII for metal drives and it makes it hard to pinpoint a site.

Here's more about them, and a few photos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_donkey
 
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