Tony Two-Cent
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Saturday, May 17, 2014:
Yesterday I met up with a father and son that I had met through YouTube. Tom and Neil are great guys and it was a pleasure meeting them finally. They live in the Peoria, IL area and we agreed to meet up for some detecting. We picked a few small town parks in central Illinois to hunt. After finding only a few clad coins at the first park we decided to try the older town square park in the same town. At this park I found a Shield Nickel in the very first hole I dug. Hard to read the date but it might be 1869. We tried an old school yard and another park after that, and we all got lots more clad and I got a couple of wheaties. It was a pleasure hunting with Tom and Neil and I'm sure that we'll get together again.
Sunday, May 18, 2014:
Last night I got a call from zrickkid and he was going to be in central Illinois today so we decided to meet up for some metal detecting. We met at a small town park that was about halfway between our two locations. At this first park I found 2 Mercury Dimes and 2 silver Washington Quarters pretty quickly in one small area, but then the finds seemed to dry up.
After about 3 hours at this park we decided to move on to the next small town. To be honest, I was about to give up on this park because I had found only 1 wheat cent in about 45 minutes. But then I got an iffy 12-46 signal that was about 6" deep near the old bandstand. I cut a pretty deep plug and when I flipped it over there was a silver dime visible in the bottom of the plug. I could see stars on the obverse so I knew it was an oldie! I went back to my car and and got my cup of leftover diet Coke from McDonalds. Ricky shot video of me washing the coin off with Diet Coke. It was a really nice 1859-O Seated Dime! I couldn't believe it! Only 480,000 minted, it might be the lowest mintage coin I've ever found.
After that I found another Merc and then a Rosie at the last park we hunted. It was a pleasure meeting zrickkid and it's always nice to hunt with another forum member. He's a very nice guy and I hope to hunt with him again someday.
Here are all of the coins from this weekend:
Here are the keepers before cleaning:
Seven silvers today:
Here is the Shield Nickel I found yesterday:
And my best find of the weekend:
Thanks for looking and happy hunting! :beerbuddy:
Yesterday I met up with a father and son that I had met through YouTube. Tom and Neil are great guys and it was a pleasure meeting them finally. They live in the Peoria, IL area and we agreed to meet up for some detecting. We picked a few small town parks in central Illinois to hunt. After finding only a few clad coins at the first park we decided to try the older town square park in the same town. At this park I found a Shield Nickel in the very first hole I dug. Hard to read the date but it might be 1869. We tried an old school yard and another park after that, and we all got lots more clad and I got a couple of wheaties. It was a pleasure hunting with Tom and Neil and I'm sure that we'll get together again.
Sunday, May 18, 2014:
Last night I got a call from zrickkid and he was going to be in central Illinois today so we decided to meet up for some metal detecting. We met at a small town park that was about halfway between our two locations. At this first park I found 2 Mercury Dimes and 2 silver Washington Quarters pretty quickly in one small area, but then the finds seemed to dry up.
After about 3 hours at this park we decided to move on to the next small town. To be honest, I was about to give up on this park because I had found only 1 wheat cent in about 45 minutes. But then I got an iffy 12-46 signal that was about 6" deep near the old bandstand. I cut a pretty deep plug and when I flipped it over there was a silver dime visible in the bottom of the plug. I could see stars on the obverse so I knew it was an oldie! I went back to my car and and got my cup of leftover diet Coke from McDonalds. Ricky shot video of me washing the coin off with Diet Coke. It was a really nice 1859-O Seated Dime! I couldn't believe it! Only 480,000 minted, it might be the lowest mintage coin I've ever found.
After that I found another Merc and then a Rosie at the last park we hunted. It was a pleasure meeting zrickkid and it's always nice to hunt with another forum member. He's a very nice guy and I hope to hunt with him again someday.
Here are all of the coins from this weekend:
Here are the keepers before cleaning:
Seven silvers today:
Here is the Shield Nickel I found yesterday:
And my best find of the weekend:
Thanks for looking and happy hunting! :beerbuddy:
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n all your keepers.
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