I spent both yesterday and today driving around to some new towns trying to find a new hot spot to detect. Yesterday I headed northeast, today I went southeast. I tried many different parks in several different towns. I don't know if I found any hot spots, but I did end up with a few keepers.
Yesterday (Saturday) I found a 1946 Washington Quarter along a sidewalk strip in front of the community building at the first town I went to. The quarter was my 99th silver for the year. Not much else except a bunch of clad and two identical thimbles that were about 5 feet apart.
At the second town I went to, I found a 1935 Mercury Dime along a sidewalk strip by the little league ball field for my 100th silver of the year. First time I've ever accomplished that. Didn't find much else there except a few wheat cents.
At the third town I went to, there was a town square park right in the middle of town. I didn't find any silver coins there, but this park did give up five Indian Head Cents. I love finding Indian Heads, so that was a lot of fun. I also found a sterling silver pilots wings in this park.
Today I headed to a small town park that I had hunted briefly once before when I first got my E-Trac. I didn't find much of anything on that first hunt, but I wanted to see if I would do any better now that I am more experienced with the E-Trac. Well, today's hunt wasn't going any better at this park, I hadn't found a single old coin after more than an hour. So I decided to think outside the box and try to find a spot where maybe nobody had hunted much. I went to the back side of the park right along the edge of the alley. After only 5 minutes along this strip I got a perfect 11-47 signal at about 6" deep. It sounded so much like a silver quarter that I got my video camera out just in case. I got the coin coming out of the hole on video, and it was a beautiful 1917 Standing Liberty Quarter. By far the nicest SLQ I have found. (And oldest.) The only other keeper I found at this park was a 1925 Buffalo Nickel.
On the way home I stopped briefly at an old park that I had hunted twice before, and this time I found a 1900 Barber Dime that I had missed the other times.
Another really fun weekend of detecting, and the weather was absolutely perfect!
Here are all of the coins from this weekend's hunts:
And here are the keepers:
All five of these Indian Heads came from the same park on Saturday:
Sterling silver pilots wings came from the same park as the Indian Heads:
I found two identical thimbles about 5 feet apart yesterday. Not sure if 1892 is the date?
World's smallest brass padlock? I thought it was neat. Found in a park, sounded just like an Indian Head.
Here is the SLQ that I found at a park this morning. I was elated to find an early one that still has a legible date, 1917 Variety II:
Barber Dime that I found at the last place I hunted today:
And some of the other miscellaneous relics that I found over the weekend. (Including a beautiful blue and white marble!):
As always, thanks for looking and happy hunting!
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Is the religious pendant silver also? Looks like it in the pic
Originally Posted by BHNugget link=topic=11264.msg122611#msg122611 date=1347236397
. Hopefully my e-trac will come back from the factory this week and I can get out MDing next weekend! Keep your fingers crossed. Best wishes and HH, Dave.
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What a weekend! 
It's a good one for sure. 
