November 10th & 11th finds from a couple different spots

[giant056]

On the 10th my brother and I hunted an old house site, I managed to get me a merc, some wheats and clad.

I went to a nearby park on the 11th for a short hunt, I only found two coins one was a zinc and the other was a nice old rosy

 

[aloldstuff]

Not to shabby, some nice silvers and wheat's. Looks like the 1921 merc is a semi-key date :thumbsup02:. How's your weather holding up ?

:congratsn all your keepers.

 

[giant056]

Looks like the 1921 merc is a semi-key date :thumbsup02:. How's your weather holding up ?

I didn't realize the 21 plain was a low mintage coin till I just looked on coinfacts after reading your reply, I knew the 21D was cause I found one about 5-6 years ago, cool :grin: The weather was nasty yesterday and today looks worse, snowy, windy and cold. It won't be long before the ground is froze solid parks and schoolyards etc at this rate. I can handle the freezing weather it's the wind that will get you and lack of sunshine.

 

[Tony Two-Cent]

Congrats on the key date 1921 Mercury Dime, Larry! :thumbsup02:

That's a good one for sure! I have never found a 1921 or a 1921-D, and now you have found both! Hopefully there's a 1916-D in your future!

:congrats:

 

[del]

I'm always a little saddened when I see ol' Abe with the crude lobotomy I do like the semi key '21 Larry , congrats on getting both the plain and the "D" in that year :clapping:

 

[giant056]

I'm always a little saddened when I see ol' Abe with the crude lobotomy

The old house site where I found the coins on the 10th is sitting on what use to be an old golf course and there's no doubt that Abe was lobotomized by the old reel type mower :grin:

 

[MangoAve]

A few nice silver. I do wonder why the '21 is a scarce date. It's 8 years before the depression. It's 3 years after the great war (even tho the treaty wasn't signed by the US until '21 there still was no war for those three years).

there's no doubt that Abe was lobotomized by the old reel type mower :grin:

Interesting when you think a hand mower can do that to a coin and it doesn't have nearly the power behind the blade as the gas powered ones now.

 

[giant056]

A few nice silver. I do wonder why the '21 is a scarce date. It's 8 years before the depression. It's 3 years after the great war (even tho the treaty wasn't signed by the US until '21 there still was no war for those three years).


Interesting when you think a hand mower can do that to a coin and it doesn't have nearly the power behind the blade as the gas powered ones now.

I worked a few years in a mower shop (mid 70's) while laid of my regular job for cash and they were the only shop in town that sharpened the reel type mowers, back then they were still using the big powered reel type mowers on some golf courses yet. I remember when I was a kid my dad had a couple of the old power reel type mowers. I remember Roy (owner of the lawnmower shop) cutting cellophane with them, they were unbelievably sharp.

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[giant056]

Here's a modern Toro, it's diesel and only cost $7000

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[MangoAve]

Here's a modern Toro, it's diesel and only cost $7000

Only?? Haha. If I have any golf courses of my own to mow. I'm looking at the Li 46V regular style they just came out with (non-reel). It'll be nice and quiet. I didn't know they had powered reel style in the 70's and that deisel uses hydraulic to spin the blades. I just payed attention to the design of the old ones the blades were a little thinner and not shaped slightly like a propeller to suck the air and cut grass up and out. They were required to be sharper to work with less power behind them (before engines were fitted on). Yet, even tho, it is obvious the older style was the one that killed the penny. The only thing mine picks up is sand and twigs. Not at all did it pick up any of the screws I dropped from fixing my cantilever deck this summer.

 

[Nesdore]

Congrats on the key date Merc and Wheats :clapping: hopefully it will warm up in December sometime :lol: to cold to early

 

[Digger Don]

Congrats on the 21 merc, Nice Find.
You had a couple of productive hunts.