Found Seated, Barber, and Mercury Dimes this afternoon, evening hunt failed to provide the Roosie for a Grand Slam

[Chris(SoCenWI)]

Hello all,

I detected a construction site this afternoon and netted three of the dime varieties needed for a Grand Slam. I haven't made a Grand Slam for years so this evening I headed out for a couple more hours of detecting. Tried some terrace strips a few blocks down from my house. After digging a few deep memorials I should have tried a new area. 20-20 hindsight.

I thought I had found a 1914 Wheat with a mint mark, but after cleaning in H2O2 the mintmark turn out to be a delusion. I don't have many holes left in the Wheat cents folder and that would have filled one more.

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The seated is an 1859-O, pretty worn on the obverse, reverse much clearer. Also got a couple of crusty IH's. This site is a town up the Rock River valley from Beloit. For some reason the soil in Beloit is quite sandy and very kind to copper, east of here and apparently north it is more clayey and most of the older copper is trashed.

Guess I'll have to suffer through missing another grand slam by a silver Roosevelt. Back in 2004 I missed the Grand Slam because of the Roosie several times. Not sure how many times since without digging through a lot of records.

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But at least I found a Seated coin for the 2015 season. And I did find a few clad Roosies. I included one in the picture just in case the rules change.

Happy Hunting everyone.

Chris(SoCenWI)

 

[doc holiday]

Nice finds and good story. Good luck on your quest for GS.

 

[PSS1963]

If getting those 4 series on one hunt is a grand slam, what do we call it if we also hit the bust dime in the mix?

-pete

 

[Chris(SoCenWI)]

I'm not sure if I've heard of anyone ever doing that. I've only found one bust coin and that was a quarter.

Got any suggestions?

 

[PSS1963]

I'm not sure if I've heard of anyone ever doing that. I've only found one bust coin and that was a quarter.

Got any suggestions?

Not me. Two different silver series in one day was the best I've done.

-pete

 

[IBdiggin]

Very cool finds Chris--- I farmed for 35 years near Monroe but I wasn't into detecting at the time. I lived in Janesville for a while and my in-laws were from there as well so I know exactly were that is . Lots of history there.-------HH--IB

 

[Ed (Upstate NY)]

n/t

 

[Ed (Upstate NY)]

n/t

 

[Chris(SoCenWI)]

I'll check my records and see if the seated or the roosie has caused me more grand slam misses over the years. Suspect it would be the seated, just remember the roosie more because it hurts worse.

Chris

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

A great bunch of finds Chris - good job !

 

[wvrick]

Congratulations! Nice finds.