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Got these 2 on a couple of hunts last week.They were pretty grungy but cleaned up nicely.

They were kind enough to give me 2 weeks off from work so I was able to do a few of my favorite things:golf and detect. I was most happy with the 1961 rosie (who's face I gouged up due to digging in bone-dry soil) and the 1928 merc. I got both on a sliding hill at a pounded park 2 miles from my...

This is my 4th year detecting and my favorite thing to see in the hole has always been a silver coin. I know that in order to find gold, one must dig a lot of junk which I never do. But Saturday, I paid a visit to the park that I used to visit as a child and later played my midget football in...

I stopped over to visit my son before work today. He lives in a 3 family house in the historic district in the south end of Hartford. His back yard is mostly parking lot but it has a patch of lawn no bigger than 30' x 15'. I found this less than 2' deep. Also found 5 pennies (no...

Less than a mile from my house is a house that's been abandoned for a few years and is deteriorating quickly and was built in 1920 so I stopped in to swing a coil over the overgrown tiny back yard that is only a 50 x 50 foot square. The 1st target is a wheat penny. The second target is a wheat...

I returned to the park that I had dug 98 wheats from to see if I could hit 100 and got those 2 and 12 more, including a 1909 VDB. I had to wait a few more days to get some silver,a 1948 Rosie and 5 more wheats at an old horse farm that the town bought, apparently to provide me with another place...

Sounds like a broken record, but I went back to the same park that I've been going to in New Britain and found 3 more silver dimes ( a 1941 Merc and two 1946 Rosies) and 11 more wheats, the oldest was 1923 and what looks to be a handmade I.D. bracelet (didn't find the rest of it). You can...

Took my last trip for awhile to my favorite park on Saturday in a windstorm and found a 1946 rosie for my 11th silver coin in a relatively small area. Also found 10 more wheaties, oldest was 1919,most were from the 40's. That made 83 wheats I've found in basically the same area. Hardly ever find...

The snow at last has melted enough to go digging again! I returned to the park where I had so much success at the end of last year for a little pre-work 2 hour hunt and went to the same little hilly area next to the baseball field that I found 7 silver coins. I must have scoured that hill a half...

I just got back from the cafeteria at work where I went to eat tonight. The tab came to $6.90. Here's what I got back in change. Spring can't come quick enough around here.

My best 2 finds were the GW inaugural button and my first Barber quarter (p.s. I'm not trying to sneak in 2 more coins, they just happen to be in the only photo of the Barber I had on my cell phone).

Unusually nice weather in the Northeast let me get out for a couple of short hunts in the last couple of days. Saturday I found the non-silver earring, 1948 rosie and the lone wheat. Returned today for an hour and got 6 wheaties, 3 were in a spill with a nickel that may be a war nickel, have to...

I had to do some shopping today and got done about 2:00. So it's 38 degrees out and I had to be in work by 3:30. What better time than now to do some detecting. I had about 45 minutes to hunt and hit my new favorite park in New Britain on the way to work. Got a good hit about 5 inches down and...

My friend Ron recently moved into a 2 family house built in 1925. So Sunday morning before football began, I checked out his new yard for old goodies and dug up a 1943 Washington, 2 wheaties, a neat Joie Chitwood Auto Thrill Show good luck token and the usual 2 bucks in clad. The temp outside...

I had to go back to the park I scored 3 silvers at last week and found a 1940 Merc, a religious medal (not silver) and a wheat on Sunday in about 2 hours. Went back today and got a 1942-S Merc and a couple bucks in clad before I went to work. This place is loaded with wheaties as I found 11 more...

On a beautiful fall afternoon MangoAve Jim and I hit a park in a nearby town that Jim had been to recently. I was fortunate enough to find a 1925 Merc about 8" deep in center field of the baseball field, a 1951 Rosie on the hill next to the 1st base line and my 1st Barber quarter, a well-worn...

Had an hour to kill before work so on a hunch I stopped by an old golf course on the edge of an old Hartford park and hunted on a side hill. Didn't find anything spectacular but did find 5 wheats (oldest 1918), a buck in clad and a golf range token. Still got a lot of area to cover ( attention...

Went for a cellar hole hunt with Mangoave (Jim) last Saturday. The day was awesome up in Jim's neck of the woods in Northern Ct. We hunted a cellar hole he researched and found these goodies. The first 2 pics are a half dollar sized flat button, the heart-shaped thing has what I think says "I...

Just wondering how you guys present yourselves and ask permission when knocking on random doors to gain access to someone's yard to detect ? I've never done it before but the time has come to start. Any pointers will be welcome.

About 4 months ago I detected an old factory yard no more than a mile from my house. I had been there before and all I found were a few wheats and some clad. I had an hour to kill so I stopped there and hunted a little. All I found were a few clad coins and a crusty old button. There were no...