Tony Two-Cent
Administrator
I had a brief window of opportunity to go metal detecting today in between Thanksgiving festivities. We're headed to my parents tomorrow. I went back to "Silver Park" but the finds are definitely becoming more scarce there.
The digging was very difficult today as the top 1" of soil is frozen solid. I hunted for 4 hours but I intentionally ignored the wheat cent signals because it took so long to recover each target. I concentrated on high-pitched tones and nickel signals.
Today I ended up with the following coins:
3 Wheat Cents 1944, 1944, 1946
1 Memorial Cent
3 Buffalo Nickels 1919, 1921, 1930
2 Jefferson Nickels 1940, 1941
1 Mercury Dime 1943
1 Roosevelt Dime 1948
That makes a total of 48 silvers from this park so far.
Here are today's finds:
Keepers:
The old nickels were popping for me today for some reason:
This old token is from the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. It is about the size of a half dollar. It was fairly deep, about 11 inches. Hopefully the front will clean up better.
I found this aluminum item, it rang up like a nickel and was about 6 inches deep. It was folded twice. Typically I would have put it in my junk pocket and discarded it later, but on a whim I unfolded it and I could see that it had writing on it so I decided to take it home and clean it up just for the heck of it. I had no idea what it might be, but when I Googled "Patsy Stoker" I learned that it is an old coal company "scatter tag". The coal companies used to throw these tags in with the coal when they would deliver it to your home. It served as a form of advertising, and let you know where your coal came from. I guess people actually collect these scatter tags. I had never heard of such a thing, so I actually learned something today!
Thanks for looking and happy hunting! :beerbuddy:
The digging was very difficult today as the top 1" of soil is frozen solid. I hunted for 4 hours but I intentionally ignored the wheat cent signals because it took so long to recover each target. I concentrated on high-pitched tones and nickel signals.
Today I ended up with the following coins:
3 Wheat Cents 1944, 1944, 1946
1 Memorial Cent
3 Buffalo Nickels 1919, 1921, 1930
2 Jefferson Nickels 1940, 1941
1 Mercury Dime 1943
1 Roosevelt Dime 1948
That makes a total of 48 silvers from this park so far.
Here are today's finds:
Keepers:
The old nickels were popping for me today for some reason:
This old token is from the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. It is about the size of a half dollar. It was fairly deep, about 11 inches. Hopefully the front will clean up better.
I found this aluminum item, it rang up like a nickel and was about 6 inches deep. It was folded twice. Typically I would have put it in my junk pocket and discarded it later, but on a whim I unfolded it and I could see that it had writing on it so I decided to take it home and clean it up just for the heck of it. I had no idea what it might be, but when I Googled "Patsy Stoker" I learned that it is an old coal company "scatter tag". The coal companies used to throw these tags in with the coal when they would deliver it to your home. It served as a form of advertising, and let you know where your coal came from. I guess people actually collect these scatter tags. I had never heard of such a thing, so I actually learned something today!
Thanks for looking and happy hunting! :beerbuddy:
