Hi everybody...
So I stayed out a little late the night before last after work and it didn't help in getting up early for a hunt with my buddy Larry yesterday. First spot we hit looked good from the outside but was rock and gravel fill that only turned up modern clad and metal trash. So we went for a drive to a spot I'd found a while back - an old 1800s picnic site. I'd got some 40s wheats and silver in one location, but the only target period coin my first time hunting here had been a BEAUTIFUL 1879 Indian:
A nearby baseball field had always looked enticing, and today the groundskeeper was there. He approached us and asked if we could help him find a sprinkler head; I said sure, if we can hunt the fieldHe said no problem, and when I found the head 2 minutes later, we were hunting.
Unfortunately it was just deep clad 8/
So I wandered around some more, still hurting from the night before, getting tired and thinking about where I was going to lay down for a nap, not a wheat or even an indicator to my name after 6 hours. Then I went to the little spot that had given up the Indian.
I dug a bottle cap. Then a zinc at 2 inches. Then I went right to the central area I'd pounded last year after the Indian came out. And got a somewhat decent signal. Dug down 2 inches thinking anything shallow here must be a recent drop... clad dime... Wait, that's not orange... It's greyish. And thin. This could be old... Just then Larry walked up. I think it's silver... this could be old...
Got it in my fingers and brushed off some dirt. And there it was; my day was suddenly complete.
A little bit greyed, but still pretty to me The reverse... Pretty worn, definitely a period drop for the picnic grounds that began in the 1870s:
After that I decided to strip-mine the little iron-infested patch of dirt, digging all non-ferrous signals. Nothing too deep, because of the iron...
Dug 19 ring pulls, 38 bottle-caps (which never get dug otherwise), and handfulls of other trash. When I reached down to pull out yet another ring pull, I noticed this one was a little different:
It was so clean I knew right away it wasn't silver...
The old dime was all I needed, but this was icing on the cake.
Looks like a setting for a pretty nice piece of ice... I couldn't find the diamond in the hole, so I dug out all around it and brought the dirt home in a plastic bag to sift through later(a good suggestion by Larry.)
At the end of the day, way more trash than good targets, but quality well over quantity. Thanks for looking!
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thumbsup01 8)
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Given the size of the prongs on that ring, I would have brought home two or three wheelbarrows full of dirt to sift 
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