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    1906 Abandoned House

    Got permission to hunt an abandoned 1906 house. Amazed how few signals there were. Must have been hunted numerous times over the years.
    I did break my silver drought though.
    First hit was what looked like a half dollar, though very crusty and looked like clad.
    Wasn't till I got it home, and after 10 tin foil, baking soda treatments, discovered it was a 1953 D Franklin Half Dollar!
    I hit a Mercury Dime 1919, a 1946 wheatie, and just a handful of 70's lincolns.
    A Palmolive token.
    Assorted other bits and pieces, including a nice square nail.
    ****update I did some more work on the purple car underneath. It's a Tootsietoy Purple 1955 Jaguar D-Type Race Car, USA. ****

    First two photos, the Franklin before cleaning.

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    Last edited by AussieOkie; 06-26-2019 at 05:28 PM.

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    You did good! Congrats on the Franklin Half! That is one coin that still eludes me. I have been detecting for 40+ years and still haven't found one. You did a good job of cleaning that one. It was hardly recognizable before.

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    9 Large Cents, 415 Indian Heads, 2 Two Cent Pieces, 1 Capped Bust Half Dime, 1 Seated Half Dime, 10 Shield Nickels, 68 V Nickels, 124 Buffalo Nickels, 31 War Nickels, 16 Seated Dimes, 131 Barber Dimes, 405 Mercury Dimes, 249 Rosies, 4 Seated Quarters, 18 Barber Quarters, 19 Standing Liberty Quarters, 89 Silver Washingtons, 1 Seated Half, 3 Barber Halves, 16 Walking Liberty Halves

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tony Two-Cent View Post
    You did good! Congrats on the Franklin Half! That is one coin that still eludes me. I have been detecting for 40+ years and still haven't found one. You did a good job of cleaning that one. It was hardly recognizable before.

    Thanks. 🖒🖒 Yes, it was so encrusted I couldn't tell what it was except for being a half, thought it was clad. I was very excited after about it's 4th dip in the pool to see silver. First Franklin for me as well

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    Looks like that Franklin might have been in a fire. Nice job on the cleaning!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Digger Don View Post
    Looks like that Franklin might have been in a fire. Nice job on the cleaning!
    Thanks 🖒 It may have been, it was hard caked. I was surprised by what it was

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    Nice job AussieOkie. Good to identify what silver that is.
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    Great bunch of finds. Congrats on the Big Silver. WD
    Total silver 3 - Goal 50 (2024 Finds) - 0 Washington - 0 Barber Dimes - 0 Mercury Dimes- - 3 Roosevelt Dimes - 0 V Nickels - 0 Buffalos - 0 War Nickels - 0 Indian - 10 Wheats - $ 3.44 in clad
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    Quote Originally Posted by badgers325 View Post
    Nice job AussieOkie. Good to identify what silver that is.
    Thanks🖒🖒

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    Quote Originally Posted by wisconsin digger View Post
    Great bunch of finds. Congrats on the Big Silver. WD
    Thanks 🖒🖒

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    That franklin half clean up real nice. Looks like you had a good hunt
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    Nice finds and nice work on resurrecting the Franklin .Those dog tags look like ones from the San Mateo county of California , they wouldn't happen to be from there , would they ? Welcome to the forum .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cooper View Post
    That franklin half clean up real nice. Looks like you had a good hunt
    It did, wish the weather wasn't so hot...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cheap Thrills View Post
    Nice finds and nice work on resurrecting the Franklin .Those dog tags look like ones from the San Mateo county of California , they wouldn't happen to be from there , would they ? Welcome to the forum .
    Thanks! No from adjoining county here in TX.

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