Chris(SoCenWI)
Well-known member
Hello All,
I had a treat this past weekend. Met up with Mike Moutray, GOLDDIGGER, and Ted from St. Louis, and Tom from Milwaukee for a little playing in the dirt action. Found more camaraderie than coins and that was o.k.
I got a 1893 V Nickel about 45 seconds after meeting up with the group and not even a clad coin after that. I don't think anybody found anything while I was with them, hmmmmm, that's kind of troubling. But it was good to finally have some faces to go with names and I helped them burn a few gallons of gas as we traveled from town to town. Don't think I have what it takes to go on a 1000 mile weekend road trip unless it involves poo nanner and even then doubtful.
Today was fun; most silver coins I have found in quite some time.
I have a friend that I discuss local history with and he told me the name of someone I would need to ask for permission to detect a older farmstead. Randomly ran into this person at my watering hole last Saturday and was given the go ahead. Snuck out of work early today as the weather was beautiful. Got there about 5 p.m.
Started out in the front yard with the 10" Stock and wasn't finding much; got the couple of Roosies first. Wandered about the rest of the place; as usual with farmsteads trash everywhere. I then returned to the front yard again and the second time around things started happening.
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Had a lot of coin spills today. First one was a 1898 V nickel that was dancing cheek to cheek (reverse to reverse) with a 1905 IH for the last hundred years or so. Both the nickel and IH are uncoroded where they were touching. Signal was kind of funny, sounded like a penny with iron in the hole. Every time I've found a penny/nickel touching combo in the past it has hit much lower than IH. Just when you think you know something for sure the explorer will eventually prove you wrong again. The 1892 IH was in the same hole, but not in contact with the other two.
1911-D Barber and 1919-D merc where in the same hole.
Other Barber is 1905-S. Oldest IH was 1880. Also got about 30 wheats and some of them were combos.
It was past dark and I had 8 Silver. I didn't have my headlamp so towards the end I was just digging and putting stuff in my pouch. Thought I might be digging clad because some of it was so shallow, but one of the spills included the 58-D Quarter so I was pretty sure the pennies were wheats.
I decided to head home. I cleaned up what I had and heard from the girlfriend that she was busy with the kids so I grabbed my LED Headlight and went back. I hadn't had a 10+ silver day in years and also was a seated away from a grand slam. Seemed like the thing to do.
This time I put the 4.5x7 on and headed to the area closer to the house to mix it up with all the iron. A little while later got a decent hit, dug, first coin was a merc, stuck my probe back in the hole and still something there, saw a big silver rim; out came the half, and probed again and found another merc.
Kind of discombobulating to be out in the country at an old abandoned home site with headphones on and a teeny little head light that lets you see only 10 ft. in front of you. Had a group of kids show up on bikes wondering what I was up to. They pretty much had to run over my toes before I noticed them. Glad there are not many ferocious creatures about any more.
Said to heck with the seated. If I find one there later I'll probably be miffed; haven't had a grand slam for a couple of years either. Battery was low and my shoulders were aching so headed for home.
Did find one cool civil war token from Durand, Il. Haven't found anything on it on the web but sure looks civil war era.
Chris
I had a treat this past weekend. Met up with Mike Moutray, GOLDDIGGER, and Ted from St. Louis, and Tom from Milwaukee for a little playing in the dirt action. Found more camaraderie than coins and that was o.k.
I got a 1893 V Nickel about 45 seconds after meeting up with the group and not even a clad coin after that. I don't think anybody found anything while I was with them, hmmmmm, that's kind of troubling. But it was good to finally have some faces to go with names and I helped them burn a few gallons of gas as we traveled from town to town. Don't think I have what it takes to go on a 1000 mile weekend road trip unless it involves poo nanner and even then doubtful.
Today was fun; most silver coins I have found in quite some time.
I have a friend that I discuss local history with and he told me the name of someone I would need to ask for permission to detect a older farmstead. Randomly ran into this person at my watering hole last Saturday and was given the go ahead. Snuck out of work early today as the weather was beautiful. Got there about 5 p.m.
Started out in the front yard with the 10" Stock and wasn't finding much; got the couple of Roosies first. Wandered about the rest of the place; as usual with farmsteads trash everywhere. I then returned to the front yard again and the second time around things started happening.
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Had a lot of coin spills today. First one was a 1898 V nickel that was dancing cheek to cheek (reverse to reverse) with a 1905 IH for the last hundred years or so. Both the nickel and IH are uncoroded where they were touching. Signal was kind of funny, sounded like a penny with iron in the hole. Every time I've found a penny/nickel touching combo in the past it has hit much lower than IH. Just when you think you know something for sure the explorer will eventually prove you wrong again. The 1892 IH was in the same hole, but not in contact with the other two.
1911-D Barber and 1919-D merc where in the same hole.
Other Barber is 1905-S. Oldest IH was 1880. Also got about 30 wheats and some of them were combos.
It was past dark and I had 8 Silver. I didn't have my headlamp so towards the end I was just digging and putting stuff in my pouch. Thought I might be digging clad because some of it was so shallow, but one of the spills included the 58-D Quarter so I was pretty sure the pennies were wheats.
I decided to head home. I cleaned up what I had and heard from the girlfriend that she was busy with the kids so I grabbed my LED Headlight and went back. I hadn't had a 10+ silver day in years and also was a seated away from a grand slam. Seemed like the thing to do.
This time I put the 4.5x7 on and headed to the area closer to the house to mix it up with all the iron. A little while later got a decent hit, dug, first coin was a merc, stuck my probe back in the hole and still something there, saw a big silver rim; out came the half, and probed again and found another merc.
Kind of discombobulating to be out in the country at an old abandoned home site with headphones on and a teeny little head light that lets you see only 10 ft. in front of you. Had a group of kids show up on bikes wondering what I was up to. They pretty much had to run over my toes before I noticed them. Glad there are not many ferocious creatures about any more.
Said to heck with the seated. If I find one there later I'll probably be miffed; haven't had a grand slam for a couple of years either. Battery was low and my shoulders were aching so headed for home.
Did find one cool civil war token from Durand, Il. Haven't found anything on it on the web but sure looks civil war era.
Chris
Very nice selection of Coins you found. Nice looking Walker also! I can bet that you will be going back sometime soon and hope there is a Seated there waiting for you. But if there is, I can almost bet that there will be more than one in the hole! If you get time, post a Pic of that Token you found and just maybe I can try and help ID it for you. I have a Tokens Book for all the States and if lucky, it just might be in there. Continued success buddy and Good Luck and HH.