My Father died in March while I was visiting the USA in March this year (I live Philippines mostly now). I wanted to write about the day we buried him. After the burial I decided to go metal detecting in the park where I grew up and started my metal detecting. The park I grew up in is in a county fairgrounds in Southern Ohio. There was a small trailer park located in the county fairgrounds in which we lived. When I was 10 years old I saw someone digging up the park and went over to see what he was doing (this was 196
. He told me he was metal detecting and digging up coins. My Father was a coin collector and I remember going through penny rolls to fill up my penny book with him so I was immediately interested in metal detecting.
So this park has been searched for over 40 years by may people including myself and my best friend I grew up with there. Every time I go home I see someone metal detecting here. The park supervisor owns an Explorer and an Etrac himself and metal detects here constantly with his buddy who also owns an Etrac. Keep in mind this park is only about 150 yards long and 90 yards wide with playground equipment, picnic concrete slabs, and a basketball court; so I have not found silver in years in this park.....but I have not taken the Etrac Minelab there yet (sorry but used the Etrac there since the Explorer XE is here in the Philippines, but I have been posting here for a few years and feel as if I know a lot of you here!!).
After my Dad's funeral I went there to bring back some memories. The first place I decided to metal detect was just behind the basketball court where my Father and I played. One the first signals sounded good so I started to dig and low and behold up came a silver Roosevelt dime. I looked at the date and it was 1958, the year I was born. I turned it over and there was a D mint mark, I teared up because I related this D to mean Dad. I feel as if my Father directed me to this spot and the first coin found was a silver dime minted the year I was born and with a D mint mark. I took this dime and buried it by Dad's headstone.
I went back to this park over the next several days and I found 4 more silver dimes, all Mercury, 3 Buffalo nickels and 15 Wheat pennies. When I was there the park's supervisor buddy came up to see if I was finding anything. I showed him the silver dimes and he just could not believe it. He was metal detecting there the same time I was and found nothing with his Etrac. He wanted to know the settings I was using. I showed him, but I fell he just does not fully understand his machine. So now I am a firm believer no place is "hunted out".
Sorry no pictures since I buried the dime but I just wanted to share this on the Forum with you guys!!!!
. He told me he was metal detecting and digging up coins. My Father was a coin collector and I remember going through penny rolls to fill up my penny book with him so I was immediately interested in metal detecting.So this park has been searched for over 40 years by may people including myself and my best friend I grew up with there. Every time I go home I see someone metal detecting here. The park supervisor owns an Explorer and an Etrac himself and metal detects here constantly with his buddy who also owns an Etrac. Keep in mind this park is only about 150 yards long and 90 yards wide with playground equipment, picnic concrete slabs, and a basketball court; so I have not found silver in years in this park.....but I have not taken the Etrac Minelab there yet (sorry but used the Etrac there since the Explorer XE is here in the Philippines, but I have been posting here for a few years and feel as if I know a lot of you here!!).
After my Dad's funeral I went there to bring back some memories. The first place I decided to metal detect was just behind the basketball court where my Father and I played. One the first signals sounded good so I started to dig and low and behold up came a silver Roosevelt dime. I looked at the date and it was 1958, the year I was born. I turned it over and there was a D mint mark, I teared up because I related this D to mean Dad. I feel as if my Father directed me to this spot and the first coin found was a silver dime minted the year I was born and with a D mint mark. I took this dime and buried it by Dad's headstone.
I went back to this park over the next several days and I found 4 more silver dimes, all Mercury, 3 Buffalo nickels and 15 Wheat pennies. When I was there the park's supervisor buddy came up to see if I was finding anything. I showed him the silver dimes and he just could not believe it. He was metal detecting there the same time I was and found nothing with his Etrac. He wanted to know the settings I was using. I showed him, but I fell he just does not fully understand his machine. So now I am a firm believer no place is "hunted out".
Sorry no pictures since I buried the dime but I just wanted to share this on the Forum with you guys!!!!
