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42 coins, Atomic Coffee and doggie pooh - what a day!
- Thread starter DavHut
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fightingcancer2005
New member
Not a bad find, for a day that started out so bad 
Is that the park over by the high school ?
Is that the park over by the high school ?Is that the park over by the high school ?
Near SOUTH Aiken High, yes. Most people know it as O'Dell Weeks Park, after a former 20-year mayor of our city. But it's rightful name is "Virginia Acres Park," after the housing development that USED to stand where the park now is. The activity center in the middle of the park is actually the H. O'dell Weeks Center - thus the confusion.
Nowadays, it is a magnet for every newbie with a detector, so I usually find other digs. However, I have pulled many a Wheatie, Buff, Silver Dime and Quarter from that park and not a few pieces of jewelry. I even found an entire linotype ingot there once! I still hit it now and then, as I did this morning.
My first back-to-backers were from there:
a 1945 Merc and 1946 Roosie
Finding the old coins there is a challenge. There is a ton of junk from the demolition of the houses, not to mention all the modern "park trash." Thus the coins are overburdened and deep.
But, I have a "secret" map of the old neighborhood before it was a park. If I get hankerin' to find an oldie for the day, I haul my GTP 1350 over there and put it to the test. I usually score.
There's a clue for you, since your new to this fascinating hobby:
[size=large]DON'T go far from home. Instead, learn what your home looked like before you came along.[/size]
This is S. Carolina, bro - this place was inhabited well before the Revolution. Pick a year, any year and go to work researching it. Mine is 1921, because of the pitiful mintages for coins in that year and because it wasnt so long ago that I lack for accessible records to search.
In Denmark, with it's Euro-immigrant history, I'd say anything after 1880 would be a good starting point, as the town itself wasn't established before the coming of the railways. But, you get the idea.
Near SOUTH Aiken High, yes. Most people know it as O'Dell Weeks Park, after a former 20-year mayor of our city. But it's rightful name is "Virginia Acres Park," after the housing development that USED to stand where the park now is. The activity center in the middle of the park is actually the H. O'dell Weeks Center - thus the confusion.
Nowadays, it is a magnet for every newbie with a detector, so I usually find other digs. However, I have pulled many a Wheatie, Buff, Silver Dime and Quarter from that park and not a few pieces of jewelry. I even found an entire linotype ingot there once! I still hit it now and then, as I did this morning.
My first back-to-backers were from there:
a 1945 Merc and 1946 Roosie
Finding the old coins there is a challenge. There is a ton of junk from the demolition of the houses, not to mention all the modern "park trash." Thus the coins are overburdened and deep.
But, I have a "secret" map of the old neighborhood before it was a park. If I get hankerin' to find an oldie for the day, I haul my GTP 1350 over there and put it to the test. I usually score.
There's a clue for you, since your new to this fascinating hobby:
[size=large]DON'T go far from home. Instead, learn what your home looked like before you came along.[/size]
This is S. Carolina, bro - this place was inhabited well before the Revolution. Pick a year, any year and go to work researching it. Mine is 1921, because of the pitiful mintages for coins in that year and because it wasnt so long ago that I lack for accessible records to search.
In Denmark, with it's Euro-immigrant history, I'd say anything after 1880 would be a good starting point, as the town itself wasn't established before the coming of the railways. But, you get the idea.
Dave sounds like you had a busy day.I found a 1844 Canadian 1/2 cent today and posted it on the Fisher forum no one noticed.I guess I'll have to get a Garrett to offically get on a better forum. HH Ron
Uncle Willy
New member
Sounds like you had a perfect day. 
Sounds like most of mine.
Bill
Sounds like most of mine.Bill