Great Find & Good Lessons

[ron@stlouis]

We finally got some soaking rain so my brother and I hit a couple of houses in a small town. We had ten coins one being a 46 wheat, no silver. We went to another area and the third house we hit was probably built in the 1920's. It had been occupied until ten years ago. We pulled up about ten more coins one being a 1910 wheat. I wanted to call it a day but my brother gave me the usual "fifteen more minutes". Ten minutes later he called me over and asked me look around. I didn't see anything. He then pointed out an 1864 Indian head laying about a foot and a half from the foundation laying on exposed mud. The coin had good lettering but unfortunately had a tiny hole drilled though it.

There was a lot of lessons on this. A good coin doesn't have to be deep. His white was set in the coin mode and did not pick up the signal. Afterwards he switched to the coin & jewelry mode and got a signal so watch your settings. I wanted to quit, he didn't and got a great coin just like earlier this year when he did the same and picked up a Barber dime. This house was built in the 1920's. Last year I hit a house built in the 1930's and pulled up an 1841 large cent. Makes you wonder. If someone thought these were good home sites in the 20's & 30's, did someone think the same and build there previously 50 and 60 years earlier leaving behind these great coins?

I hope to do more digging now that my brother retired last month. Now only one of us has to contend with a work schedule.

 

[Dan-Pa.]

But I have found seated dimes at a foot and several at an inch...moved dirt, tree roots, erosion can all attribute to depth....so don't think that shallow coin signal is always clad...