This year I had not been to any of the parks located in Central MA, so today I took a long drive to detect at a few of them. I split my time detecting at three parks in the hopes of finding some old silver. Upon arriving at the first park, a small one I had worked last year, I saw that the area I had planned to detect was being used by a small group of people interviewing and filming several children. I'm not sure what it was for, but I knew I would not be able to detect at that park for long. I gave the outer edges of the park a cursory sweep of the coil before moving on to park number two.
The second park was better, though a bit active with people walking their dogs or jogging. I selected an elevated part of the park away from the crowd and began to detect. I spent a good amount of time there during which I dug up four silver coins, a 1907-O Barber quarter, a 1946 Washington quarter, and two mercury dimes, dated 1939 and 1941.
The surface trash made it hard to accurately pinpoint one target. I was a bit off when cutting the plug. If it hadn't been for the probe I likely would have nicked the coin. It turned out to be a 1907-O Barber quarter.
It was now late afternoon, so I drove to the third park. It had yielded some old coins in past hunts. This time I picked up two silver coins before I had to leave, a 1923 mercury dime, and a 1900 Barber quarter.
I would have been happy with just one old silver coin, but I'll take more when the park offers them.
The three parks yielded a few wheat cents too, with some old ones in the bunch.
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