Carnival coins

[JimmyCT]

tonight I headed to an old carnival site. (now a baseball field) There is a construction company coming in to bulldoze the lot and install better drainage. I thought for sure they would have started the work. Once I arrived, I realized they only spray painted orange lines on the ground. So since I was at the site, I mine as well swing away.

Five minutes into my hunt, I get a real iffy variable ( jumped around a little) 164, 165, 166 on my meter. So I starting performing the super wiggle and managed to get that bad boy to climb 164, 165,166,168......172 174 175 176 man my arm was ready to fall off trying to get this thing to climb. ultimately landing at 177. I then turned and the same thing. I managed to get 177 with the super wiggle out of a 164 initial slow sweep. I knew this bad boy was going to be deep as I could hear it and because of the wiggle work I had to perform. An easy 10" inches down (according to the lesche digger) and out pops an 1899 Indian Head cent! The first one I have ever pulled out of this field. When I got up to 176 on my meter it hung there like it just didn't want to climb any further. Then it flipped like a digital odometer to 177.

The 1937 wheat was down about 6 inches and had to do a little wiggle work with this coin too. Nowheres as bad as the IH cent though.

Thanks for looking. I am starting to understand more of this tip given to me months back. Thank you for sharing the tip! - Jim

 

[Crispy Critter]

Sweet finds!

 

[GunnarMN]

NICE''''''' nativ american coin and it looks like it will clean well, just think whats going to come up when they start digging WOW I hope you get thear when they do . DASM, THATS NICE

 

[JimmyCT]

Crispy critter I love your signature! lol. Gunnar, Yep I can't wait for them to start clearing the top soil so I can go play in the dirt with my machine

 

[Neil]

EPL and Gunnar, your posts are great

 

[JimmyCT]

Thanks Neil - much appreciated

 

[Critterhunter]

Wait until they start digging. With a 10" Indian you can bet there are deeper or masked coins that will be revealed by the dirt being moved around. We had hit a grass lot next to some railroad tracks that used to be a depot and many silvers came out of there. But after a while we couldn't get anything anymore to surface. The ground was mineralized and had a lot of iron in it. Then one day they scraped off about 12" of top soil and we started popping coins again. I never forget that when hunting a site that people think is worked out. It's not really worked out, it's just that the coins left are either super deep, being masked some way, or are laying on edge.