Quick Hunt When The Rain Stops

angellionel

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Late in the day there was (finally!) a break in the rain, so I took advantage and headed to a local park for a quick hunt. Two hours later I had a few keepers to hold me until the next time I get out. lol

It's always a pleasure to see either of these two show up during a hunt. :smitten:

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Three more Indian Head cents for the pile, currently standing at 99. :happydance01:

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And eight old wheat cents followed as well. Yes, that is yet another 1909 wheat cent, but no 'S'. 8/

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HH!
 
Couldn't have gotten too much time in detectin' since the rain seemed to always threaten. >:# Nice haul and that '09 should have an S on it somewheres :confused: lol Nice couple of silvers though :clapping: I don't care if I don't find anything this weekend, I just want to get out :daydream:
 
RobW link=topic=5892.msg69682#msg69682 date=1305895346 said:
:shocked04: You kill me with your finds! :shocked04:stretcher:

Me too! I wish I could find that many good coins in a couple of hours! WOW!

A question for you, Angel: Do you leave your coins in that state, or do you clean them further?
 
Thanks for the kind words guys. :yes:


Tony Two-Cent link=topic=5892.msg69683#msg69683 date=1305895528 said:
Me too! I wish I could find that many good coins in a couple of hours! WOW!

A question for you, Angel: Do you leave your coins in that state, or do you clean them further?

With coins as the ones above I simply run water over them to remove the surface soil before putting them away. I like the 'natural' look. :yes: The silver coins I do make an attempt at cleaning are those having heavy sulfide on them, as was the case with a 1892-S Barber quarter I found early last year. :yes:

I do clean all of my Indian Head cents though. :grin:
 
angellionel link=topic=5892.msg69698#msg69698 date=1305902432 said:
Thanks for the kind words guys. :yes:


With coins as the ones above I simply run water over them to remove the surface soil before putting them away. I like the 'natural' look. :yes: The silver coins I do make an attempt at cleaning are those having heavy sulfide on them, as was the case with a 1892-S Barber quarter I found early last year. :yes:

I do clean all of my Indian Head cents though. :grin:

Thanks for the imformative reply, Angel. The improvement on that Barber Quarter is remarkable! I wish I had known about that method 25 years ago when I found my 1808 Spanish Reale. I was young and ignorant and performed some ill-advised cleaning on it to remove the black tarnish. While it still doesn't look terrible, it could have looked a lot better if I hadn't been so aggressive with the cleaning. (Yet I still didn't get all of the black stuff removed.)

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yo A

From the land of the Bluenose.....nice scoff on the barber and merc. One of the reasons I broughtthe AT Pro.......love hunting when its raining out. Keep that silve pace a going youz! <;)
 
Tony Two-Cent link=topic=5892.msg69699#msg69699 date=1305904542 said:
Thanks for the imformative reply, Angel. The improvement on that Barber Quarter is remarkable! I wish I had known about that method 25 years ago when I found my 1808 Spanish Reale. I was young and ignorant and performed some ill-advised cleaning on it to remove the black tarnish. While it still doesn't look terrible, it could have looked a lot better if I hadn't been so aggressive with the cleaning. (Yet I still didn't get all of the black stuff removed.)

The method would likely have worked very well on that Reale. It is still a very nice piece. :yes:
 
Congrats on grabbing those keeper between the raindrops :clapping: Seems like it will never end here >:\ >:\ >:\ >:\
 
Glad you were able to get out Angel.
More silver and IH's! :clapping:
Your IH count is climbing rapidly. Perhaps you should go
for a thousand of those this year. :thinkingabout: :yes:
Congrats.
 

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