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I made it out for a short hunt today in the cold and misty weather to a newer street project. I have not been hitting this project because there were so many others going and this one is in a newer neighborhood. Now that those are all completed this is about the only one going that I know of in...

I had the day off today and hit a few spots, but just couldn't resist going back to the pond for a little bit. I was there about 1 1/2 hours and found my career #500 wheatie (since 2009) and a 1936 Mercury dime.

Stopped by the tail end of a sidewalk/street project that I have been hunting all year and found a little bit of newly churned up dirt. I had only been there ten minutes and bag, then bag, got these two IH's within a couple feet of each other.

I made a couple stops to the field again that I have been working where I found the two IH's and a Civil War Store Token. Found another Civil War token, this time a patriotic token that has :usaflag:s, a drum and canons on it. The backside is blank and this is a pretty common design, but I still...

On this past Wednesday a group of four of us made it out to several different sites. We started out at a park clearing which was a bit of a bust, then we headed over to a soybean field for some old homesite hunting and then went over to an old beach on a small lake where the low water revealed...

They finally picked the soybean fields and so I made it out for a couple hours and found a nice hot spot in the corner of the field. Found my first Civil War store card token, which I believe is from Kalamazoo, Michigan and also found two IH's. An 1889 and another one that is totally toasted...

I went to a park close to the office on Friday for a little hunt in the woods. Found this half dollar size aluminum token.

A couple of us ventured out to a park in N Il where we have been before and had high hopes. Last time there was two years ago and we all scored silver after the park people cleared out some invasive species. They did some more clearings recently and earlier this year so we decided to change our...

With all of the finds I have been able to pull from the one park pond shoreline I have been hitting all summer, I have been on the lookout for others. There are not too many, but I have thought of another one not too far away in the past just have not made it over there yet. Yesterday I made it...

Here are some finds from my latest hunt at the pond shoreline. Both the war nickel and the small sterling item went in the tumbler with all of the other stuff. I did not realize what they were because the finds were so full of muck! Once again I had a nice assortment of targets including the...

Made it to a spot yesterday and managed to get some nice finds in a very short time, it was a another combination MDing / bottle digging outing.

I made it to the pond yesterday for a very short hunt. I continue to go over different and some of the same areas over and over again, each time pulling out more trash with the hope that next time the removed trash will reveal another old coin. Just before leaving I found this very tarnished...

I planned to go metal detecting today at some house demo sites, but nothin' doin' and no good finds at all in these small urban yards. However the demo workers unearthed a whole bunch of really nice bottles and I was the lucky finder. Unfortunately, I had to stand by and watch the excavator...

I went for a quick hunt yesterday to the tot lot contruction projects in Washington Park. These projects are almost done, but they spread out just a little more dirt in one spot. I am glad I swung over there for a short bit since I got this nice 1923 Merc just under the surface of the freshly...

I believe this small little item, about 2 1/2 long, to be the remnants of a small little promotional pocket shaver probably from the late 1800's. Found on a sidewalk project, I didn't realize it had writing on it until I got it home and cleaned up my finds. It reads: Sign of the blue...

This past weekend I made it over to the pond again and found more clad, misc and a nice 1907IH that was near the edge in the water. Also found three more wheat cents.

I found this recently at a sidewalk tearout with two wheat cents. This little dime bank was advertising for Sen Sen gum. There is a little slot in the top where you could insert dimes and then a mechanical dial inside that would rotate everytime a dime was inserted, and through a hole in the...

Spent a good two hours at the pond again over the weekend and managed to pull a few more wheat cents from the 1940's and a 1901 IH, plus three marbles. The bracelet is not real, too bad!

Well, this project is coming to an end and will be done and fully sodded after tomorrow. I managed one last hunt in there today. Turned out to be a good one since I came away with a 1901 Barber Dime which I extracted from amongst some tree roots. Sorry to see this project completed, but the good...

I made it out to the pond for another hunt this past weekend. The good signals are getting fewer and farther between, but I know there is more silver there. I found one 1917 wheat cent and a brass compact very deep, about 8 inches. I also found a Gillette razor blade container, plus the usual...