utmike
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Had the opportunity to get out a little last weekend. Saturday morning, I did a quick hunt at a lot where two houses had been torn down and managed to find a 1943 quarter. Later in the day, Lisa (shedigger) and I hit a lot that had been recently scraped and had previously produced a silver for her and a few Wheaties for me. Right off the bat, the X-70 locked on to a solid TID of 40 and out comes my first listed trade token from a very old park concession in Salt Lake City.
Sunday, we hit the scraped lot again. This time nothing but some zinkers. On the way home, Lisa remembered some dirt piles we had hunted with friends. We drove to them to take another look and found that they had been leveled by a grader! We had been told where the dirt had been trucked in from and knew that it was from a pretty old area. Lisa nailed a mint condition 1945S Merc. and I got my first ever Barber Quarter and pre 1900 coin. It's an 1895 in rough shape but, I am thrilled to have found it. We called our friends that we had hunted the piles with and shared the news. We all gave it a pretty hard hunt the next morning and The X-70 just about blew my ears out with a loud 46 signal. The find is from a very historic gold mining town that is all but off limits to detecting. It is a press seal similar to the old notary public embossers. I haven't finished the research but, it appears this seal was used to validate the mining stock certificates. What a great few days of detecting!!
Thanks for looking, BEST OF LUCK TO EVERYONE!
Sunday, we hit the scraped lot again. This time nothing but some zinkers. On the way home, Lisa remembered some dirt piles we had hunted with friends. We drove to them to take another look and found that they had been leveled by a grader! We had been told where the dirt had been trucked in from and knew that it was from a pretty old area. Lisa nailed a mint condition 1945S Merc. and I got my first ever Barber Quarter and pre 1900 coin. It's an 1895 in rough shape but, I am thrilled to have found it. We called our friends that we had hunted the piles with and shared the news. We all gave it a pretty hard hunt the next morning and The X-70 just about blew my ears out with a loud 46 signal. The find is from a very historic gold mining town that is all but off limits to detecting. It is a press seal similar to the old notary public embossers. I haven't finished the research but, it appears this seal was used to validate the mining stock certificates. What a great few days of detecting!!
Thanks for looking, BEST OF LUCK TO EVERYONE!