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I have dug a few Rosies and Mercs in my time, but since I look for jewelry most of the time I never really minded never finding any other silver coin in my career up to this point.
I really wanted to change that this year, I do plan on knocking on doors and looking for coins in some older neighborhoods but I really haven't had the time to do this so I still hunt my parks.
I was desperate to find a silver quarter, a war nickel, anything besides a dime, although I will surely take all the dimes that I find too, of course...I just want something different for once.
On Tuesday I had to get my drivers license renewed and that turned out to be a 9 1/2 hour process but luckily I didn't have to stay there all day because once I got my number at 7 that morning I got text messages as the day went on to let me know about my place in line.
I went home and did some chores because the wife and I are leaving for a little trip back to Bama for a few days, finished those and then got bored so I went hunting to kill the time.
There is a nice park with a lake 1.5 miles from the license place and I have been hunting that for the last week or so because it opened in 1920 and I thought there might be some older stuff here.
I have hit different places trying to figure out where the good stuff is, but except for some modern clad and one part of an old Slaymaker Rustless lock, I have not had much luck.
This day with a few hours to kill I hunted along a side of the lake I have not hunted before, and then moved over to a modern picnic pavilion which had some trees around it and some shade.
I wasn't expecting much, I had hunted around most of this thing before with a large DD coil and didn't find anything but trash and clad, but today I was on the one side I have not scanned and even though there was a bunch of trash and not many great good signals I did get this good sounding high tone that bounced from 89-91 on the F2 and a couple of dips lower, too.
Usually this would be big can or iron trash but it didn't make those big lower jumps except for a few times and it did sound solid so I dug it.
I opened a small hole, saw a big silver looking reeded edge....
A 1949 Ben Franklin half...and a beautiful specimen at that!
I did dig a lead weight not one inch away from that half and that was what was making that lower number dip, but I use the sniper coils in these trashy spots just for this reason.
Maybe I would have found this coin with a bigger coil over both these targets but I don't know for sure.
Not 10 minutes later and not far from the first one I hit the same exact signal that was a pretty solid 91 when I zeroed in on it.
I couldn't be that lucky, could I?
Well heck yea I could!
The Propointer said a small coin sized target but I really expected a very thick smallish piece of crushed can slaw but again I got a nice surprise.
Love this hobby and it's surprises.
A 1951 D Franklin half.
Is this what they call Deja Vu?
The first one was about an inch deep, the second maybe 3 inches if that, and I have no idea why these were here and so shallow.
Maybe I found an area where there used to be a house, or it might be these were dug up from deeper areas when that pavilion was built but who cares why...this ain't something that happens very often, and nothing like this ever happened to me...till now.
I searched around this area for a while longer and found some more clad but nothing else like these...but I will return here soon and on that you can bet.
This was one of those hunts you remember forever, and to think I was just killing time.
I really wanted to change that this year, I do plan on knocking on doors and looking for coins in some older neighborhoods but I really haven't had the time to do this so I still hunt my parks.
I was desperate to find a silver quarter, a war nickel, anything besides a dime, although I will surely take all the dimes that I find too, of course...I just want something different for once.
On Tuesday I had to get my drivers license renewed and that turned out to be a 9 1/2 hour process but luckily I didn't have to stay there all day because once I got my number at 7 that morning I got text messages as the day went on to let me know about my place in line.
I went home and did some chores because the wife and I are leaving for a little trip back to Bama for a few days, finished those and then got bored so I went hunting to kill the time.
There is a nice park with a lake 1.5 miles from the license place and I have been hunting that for the last week or so because it opened in 1920 and I thought there might be some older stuff here.
I have hit different places trying to figure out where the good stuff is, but except for some modern clad and one part of an old Slaymaker Rustless lock, I have not had much luck.
This day with a few hours to kill I hunted along a side of the lake I have not hunted before, and then moved over to a modern picnic pavilion which had some trees around it and some shade.
I wasn't expecting much, I had hunted around most of this thing before with a large DD coil and didn't find anything but trash and clad, but today I was on the one side I have not scanned and even though there was a bunch of trash and not many great good signals I did get this good sounding high tone that bounced from 89-91 on the F2 and a couple of dips lower, too.
Usually this would be big can or iron trash but it didn't make those big lower jumps except for a few times and it did sound solid so I dug it.
I opened a small hole, saw a big silver looking reeded edge....
A 1949 Ben Franklin half...and a beautiful specimen at that!
I did dig a lead weight not one inch away from that half and that was what was making that lower number dip, but I use the sniper coils in these trashy spots just for this reason.
Maybe I would have found this coin with a bigger coil over both these targets but I don't know for sure.
Not 10 minutes later and not far from the first one I hit the same exact signal that was a pretty solid 91 when I zeroed in on it.
I couldn't be that lucky, could I?
Well heck yea I could!
The Propointer said a small coin sized target but I really expected a very thick smallish piece of crushed can slaw but again I got a nice surprise.
Love this hobby and it's surprises.
A 1951 D Franklin half.
Is this what they call Deja Vu?
The first one was about an inch deep, the second maybe 3 inches if that, and I have no idea why these were here and so shallow.
Maybe I found an area where there used to be a house, or it might be these were dug up from deeper areas when that pavilion was built but who cares why...this ain't something that happens very often, and nothing like this ever happened to me...till now.
I searched around this area for a while longer and found some more clad but nothing else like these...but I will return here soon and on that you can bet.
This was one of those hunts you remember forever, and to think I was just killing time.
