Full Metal Digger
10-29-2017, 06:00 PM
Hey Diggers,
Don and I found a small town that looked very promising. The central park shows up on the 1872 map and looked fairly old on Google Earth. Don got there before me and since I still had an hour of driving to go I said hit that park and tell me if you find any Wheaties! About 30 minutes later he calls me back and says he's finding clad quarters as deep as 8 inches. Just before I got into town he calls to let me know he has two permissions already lined up! Two old houses next door to each other.
The finds were few and far between. I'm guessing both had been detected before since we weren't finding the usual junk you get in an old yard. I did manage an indian head cent 8 inches deep right next to the driveway. In the back yard I got a Barber dime at 4 inches deep. Even though it rang in at 12-40, it had just enough squeak to it I thought it might be silver.
At the house next door I got a mercury dime right off the bat and later an 1884 V nickel that is just about worn smooth. In the side yard I got a screaming 12-47 at 2 inches and popped out a 1963 rosie.
We drove around a bit and Don got us another permission at a 1900 home with a large corner lot. He starts popping Wheaties right off the bat but I can't find a good signal to save my life. Finally I got a garbled 12-40 signal that kept jumping between 4 and 7 inches. I cut the plug and flipped it over, grabbed a couple handfuls of dirt and threw them on my drop cloth. Laying right on top of the dirt was a nice green 1866 indian head cent. I thought it odd it would ring up so high since they normally come in around 10-37 for me. I refilled the hole & put the plug back and out of habit I reswept the hole and got a screaming signal right on top of the ground. I looked down and could see a silver rim staring up at me. I yelled at Don "there was a silver in there with the indian!" I picked it up expecting to see a Barber or maybe a seated dime and what a shock, a 1956 ROSIE! Since it is not likely they were lost together I can only assume the dime was coincidently lost right over the same spot the IHC was lost nearly 100 years earlier!
Anyway, it was a fun outing and I enjoyed detecting with Don very much. Thanks for getting all the permissions for us Don! Here's some pics of my finds. Thanks for looking and HH, Dave.
Don and I found a small town that looked very promising. The central park shows up on the 1872 map and looked fairly old on Google Earth. Don got there before me and since I still had an hour of driving to go I said hit that park and tell me if you find any Wheaties! About 30 minutes later he calls me back and says he's finding clad quarters as deep as 8 inches. Just before I got into town he calls to let me know he has two permissions already lined up! Two old houses next door to each other.
The finds were few and far between. I'm guessing both had been detected before since we weren't finding the usual junk you get in an old yard. I did manage an indian head cent 8 inches deep right next to the driveway. In the back yard I got a Barber dime at 4 inches deep. Even though it rang in at 12-40, it had just enough squeak to it I thought it might be silver.
At the house next door I got a mercury dime right off the bat and later an 1884 V nickel that is just about worn smooth. In the side yard I got a screaming 12-47 at 2 inches and popped out a 1963 rosie.
We drove around a bit and Don got us another permission at a 1900 home with a large corner lot. He starts popping Wheaties right off the bat but I can't find a good signal to save my life. Finally I got a garbled 12-40 signal that kept jumping between 4 and 7 inches. I cut the plug and flipped it over, grabbed a couple handfuls of dirt and threw them on my drop cloth. Laying right on top of the dirt was a nice green 1866 indian head cent. I thought it odd it would ring up so high since they normally come in around 10-37 for me. I refilled the hole & put the plug back and out of habit I reswept the hole and got a screaming signal right on top of the ground. I looked down and could see a silver rim staring up at me. I yelled at Don "there was a silver in there with the indian!" I picked it up expecting to see a Barber or maybe a seated dime and what a shock, a 1956 ROSIE! Since it is not likely they were lost together I can only assume the dime was coincidently lost right over the same spot the IHC was lost nearly 100 years earlier!
Anyway, it was a fun outing and I enjoyed detecting with Don very much. Thanks for getting all the permissions for us Don! Here's some pics of my finds. Thanks for looking and HH, Dave.