Tony Two-Cent and Ill Digger chisel through the frozen tundra...

[Tony Two-Cent]

I got a phone call from Ill Digger (Tim) this past Saturday. He just couldn't take it any more, he had to get out for some metal detecting. However, the ground is completely frozen up north where he's at, so he was thinking about heading down here where it isn't quite so cold. We decided to meet somewhat halfway in the middle at a park he had hunted once before with good results.

We met at the park at about 9:00 a.m. on Sunday, it was nice and sunny but the temperatures were still in the teens. There was a frozen crust of about 1 but after you got through that the digging was easy. However, there were some areas of the park that were frozen hard as concrete, but fortuntely these areas were not widespread.

We detected for 8 straight hours with just a couple of short snack breaks. Boy, my body was feeling it after not detecting for a month, but the finds kept us going.

I ended the day with 1 Indian Head, 11 Wheat Cents, 1 Buffalo Nickel, a 1941 Jefferson Nickel, 2 Mercury Dimes, a 1954 Mexican Cinco Centavos, and a pile of clad.

Here are my finds for the day:


And here are the keepers:


1890 Indian Head, 1928 Buffalo, 1919 Merc and 1926-S Merc:


Only one old nickel, the 1928 Buffalo:


The 1926-S is a semi-key date:



This Mexican coin is about the size of a large cent and sounded like big silver on the E-Trac:



It was so cold that even the tokens turned blue! lol


And just in case you think everything I dig is something good, here is my junk for the day:


Tim was still detecting when I left at about 5:15 p.m. He found several keepers as well. We had a very enjoyable hunt, it was definitely good to get out!

Thanks for looking and happy hunting!