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71 coins

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Herb Jones

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I dug in a local park yesterday...The town was established in 1832, I don't think anyone has ever detected there,...Targets everywhere.

71 coins total
17 silver dimes
3 silver quarters,
1 buffalo nickle
and a lot of pennies
 
1892, first year of the Barber. Missed seated by 1 year , sweet find though. Go hit it again Herb, I'll bet there's more.
 
old train station in a dilapidated almost vacant old town. town was formed when the railway came through in 1832.
 
Very Nice Day!
 
This is just from the initial sorting... I have never cleaned a single coin. Was thinking of getting into that soon.
 
Herb, that is quite the haul in silver. You must live in an area where nobody knows what a metal detector is :rofl:

p.s. I like your signature lol
 
20 silvers from park turf in one day ? That's sick. SICK SICK SICK ! How deep were the silvers ?
 
I don't think anyone has checked these areas before.. it's rural, and poor, very few people anywhere around into this sort of thing.
I suspect I have LOTS of places to cherry pick...a local LEO .... officer Moody showed up with his son and an old defective detector. I worked with them for a while trying to sort out the problem, to no avail. Synchronicity is the strangest thing....Someone had given it to him years ago, and he recently dug it out and ordered a battery.... it had arrived that day, he had charged it and was in his front yard trying to figure it out when his sister Came home and told him I was in the park... I think I am going to make a gift of my old groundhog so he and his kid can good off... he's a good guy, doesn't make much money, and is totally committed to trying to be a positive influence on his community.. I figure if my old detector can bring him a little joy, and maybe influence some kids in a positive way,then it would be a great way to part with my first detector... it's rarely used anymore....I let him swing the compadre, and filmed him find, and his son(8yo) dig, their first coin together. ... a wheat penny.... that 72nd coin they dug was the coolest thing I've seen in a while.
 
Not really a park. More
Of passenger staging area where an old railroad depot
Once stood. Very rural, and economically depressed
Area almost Completely depoplulated once the railroad stopped
Running... I seriously doubt anyone has ever detected it before... I was running a compadre so
Everything was Less than 6" in good moist soil. I had the discrimination maxed out, so I figure there
are a hand full of old. Ickes there to be had. I studied maps and did a lot of research before starting out. This spot was on a list of area to check around this old
Town. I compared old to new maps to see what no longer existed... and it's those areas a began searching first. I suspect I could detect around town for years and find goodies. I found 10-15 of those original 71 in a spill Under a set of monkey bars. Sounded. If like an aluminum can.
Began digging and voila

My list of future dig sites is crazy long.
There is a ghost town nearby that dates back to the early 1700s and began as a Spanish outpost.... I am determined to find that old place
I spent 18hrs searching a vast track of land for
Signs of it last week... found an old bridge in the woods that no longer has roads leading to or from it
So I know I am
On the right track...


It all begins with studying and comparing old and new maps for me
 
earthlypotluck said:
Herb, that is quite the haul in silver. You must live in an area where nobody knows what a metal detector is :rofl:

p.s. I like your signature lol
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I do believe that is the case. Small town far from
Any big cities. I think I was the first to ever detect there. Way too many shallow
Coins... people ask
What I'm doing and look at me like I am
A total fool wasting my time
 
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