I have been looking at small town parks on Google again, and today I decided to try one out. I had never been to this town before, it is about a 2 hour drive for me. I got there at about 8:30 this morning.
This town has a large city park that takes up one full block, but I elected to hunt the smaller park that is right across from Main Street. Within 2 minutes of firing up my E-Trac I found an 1880 Indian Head, a good sign of things to come. I hunted this park for six straight hours and found 9 Indian Head Cents, 16 Wheat Cents, 1 Shield Nickel, 2 V Nickels, 1 Seated Dime, 2 Barber Dimes, 1 Mercury Dime, 1 Silver Washington Quarter and 5 store tokens.
Here are today's finds:
Here are the keepers:
I found 9 Indian Heads today which was a new record for me. My previous best was 7 in one day.
The oldest Indian Head is dated 1868. I didn't spend a lot of time on it yet, I think it will clean up better.
I found three old nickels today: 1 Shield Nickel and 2 V Nickels. The Shield Nickel was about 12" away from the seated dime and I wonder if they were from the same spill.
All three of these dimes were pretty deep, about 8" to 9".
I had great luck with the old store tokens today too, I've never found so many in one hunt before!
Gold plated ring, junk ring, lead bag seal, trinket and a whatzit:
What a fun day!
Thanks for looking and happy hunting!