Ronstar
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Ok, originally the weather forecast was supposed to be a bit cold and wet snow this morning so figured I really was done for the year. Nope, revised forecast has this as a warm day followed by rain tomorrow and snow moving in Thursday night. At 11:30 this morning it was 50 degrees and an easy decision to grab and go.
There are a couple out of the way city parks that might get me a bit more change so headed there first. Nope, city had a small backhoe and dump truck in there so no place park and I left. I grew in this neighborhood and the house I lived in from 1955 to 1975 is nearby and owned by my step sister who moved in around 1978 and been there ever since. What the hay, maybe she will let me play.
Knock on door but no movement but as I stepped off the porch she answered, so we chatted..... Ya see this house was built in 1897 and continually lived in by my family and now by hers. I’m pretty sure detectors were scarce or if even a thing in the mid 50s or earlier so pretty sure its never been searched, she agreed. Have fun she said and if I find a jar of gold we will need to re-talk, lol. Also she said, from doing a lot of landscape improvements, there are a million nails. Not what I wanted to hear....
Off I go, yup even the F75 with DST was sounding like a secretary on speed whacking away on an old manual typewriter. Nonetheless I was getting some fairly deep signals at 8-12” but hard to tell as the only coil I had was the SEL Butterfly. Finally after about an hour I hit a dime signal at 3-4” that ended up a ‘68 penny. A bit later I get another good dime signal at 3-4” that came out a ‘58 Wheat, showing promise.....keep working the side lawn area and get several more good and some iffy dime/quarter signals back down deep. Problem is the ground was still rock hard frozen a couple inches deep and frozen plugs hard to replace and deal with. A bit farther by the street edge I dug a ‘55 Wheat but again frozen and it was only 2” down. Now my story takes a HOLY MOLY turn.
Next to the old sidewalk leading up to the original front of the house (on corner lot so when upstairs had a separate apartment the house was allowed two address, one for each street side) I hit an 85 (quarter) signal and a 93-94 (so far thats been half dollar/dollar territory). Finally a quarter I tell myself! Pinpointer was saying 2” so pulled the carrot and sure enough it buzzed almost solid, so I dug. At first I thought I had a typical tarnished half dollar but nope, it was an older carwash token just slightly smaller that a half buck! Thought I had something didn’t ya!!!!! Lol. Put frozen divot back and place and the carrot is still buzzing.... turn it off, restart, place tip back on ground and it buzzes again. Sweep coil over top and 93-94 and solid. This spot was no more than 1.5” from the token and showing same depth so cut another divot and turned the trowel over.
Now I have no idea what I did to make the Gods smile on me but this is what was next to the token....... I am truly shocked at my luck with big silver for the year. 1907-O in pretty decent shape.
There are a couple out of the way city parks that might get me a bit more change so headed there first. Nope, city had a small backhoe and dump truck in there so no place park and I left. I grew in this neighborhood and the house I lived in from 1955 to 1975 is nearby and owned by my step sister who moved in around 1978 and been there ever since. What the hay, maybe she will let me play.
Knock on door but no movement but as I stepped off the porch she answered, so we chatted..... Ya see this house was built in 1897 and continually lived in by my family and now by hers. I’m pretty sure detectors were scarce or if even a thing in the mid 50s or earlier so pretty sure its never been searched, she agreed. Have fun she said and if I find a jar of gold we will need to re-talk, lol. Also she said, from doing a lot of landscape improvements, there are a million nails. Not what I wanted to hear....
Off I go, yup even the F75 with DST was sounding like a secretary on speed whacking away on an old manual typewriter. Nonetheless I was getting some fairly deep signals at 8-12” but hard to tell as the only coil I had was the SEL Butterfly. Finally after about an hour I hit a dime signal at 3-4” that ended up a ‘68 penny. A bit later I get another good dime signal at 3-4” that came out a ‘58 Wheat, showing promise.....keep working the side lawn area and get several more good and some iffy dime/quarter signals back down deep. Problem is the ground was still rock hard frozen a couple inches deep and frozen plugs hard to replace and deal with. A bit farther by the street edge I dug a ‘55 Wheat but again frozen and it was only 2” down. Now my story takes a HOLY MOLY turn.
Next to the old sidewalk leading up to the original front of the house (on corner lot so when upstairs had a separate apartment the house was allowed two address, one for each street side) I hit an 85 (quarter) signal and a 93-94 (so far thats been half dollar/dollar territory). Finally a quarter I tell myself! Pinpointer was saying 2” so pulled the carrot and sure enough it buzzed almost solid, so I dug. At first I thought I had a typical tarnished half dollar but nope, it was an older carwash token just slightly smaller that a half buck! Thought I had something didn’t ya!!!!! Lol. Put frozen divot back and place and the carrot is still buzzing.... turn it off, restart, place tip back on ground and it buzzes again. Sweep coil over top and 93-94 and solid. This spot was no more than 1.5” from the token and showing same depth so cut another divot and turned the trowel over.
Now I have no idea what I did to make the Gods smile on me but this is what was next to the token....... I am truly shocked at my luck with big silver for the year. 1907-O in pretty decent shape.
. Reread my narrative and two things to clarify..... the two families have occupied the house since 1955, not since 1897. Also, after I filled the divot from the token I reached for the carrot and it was buzzing because it was essentially on top of the Barber. I run silent so I almost jumped when I grabbed it. Slid the coil over it and if no reaction (iron discriminated out) I would have moved on. Meanwhile, the 58 Wheat turned out to be 53S which I believe is her birth year so I will give it to her as a good luck charm. Then I’ll go clean up all those nasty nails for her 
