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...not just a wheatie.
Last November I finally found a coin that I could put in a space in one of my old books that I have been hauling around with me throughout most of my life.
I have nothing else left at all from my early days growing up as a kid but for some reason I managed to hang onto these 3 books I started as my coin collection back when I was 8 years old.
2 Lincoln cent books from 1909 to 1965 and a Jefferson nickel book from 38-61.
I was into filling these for awhile finding coins in change and I also was doing some coin roll hunting back then thanks to my grandparents that filled up some cigar boxes with cent rolls and gave them to me on each birthday.
I did pretty good and filled most of the later Lincoln book, lots of the early book and about half of the nickel book, but as most things in life when you are a kid I eventually moved on to other interests and put these books away.
Why I dragged these through my life or how they never got lost through all the moves I have no idea but I still have them.
Last November I finally found a 1935 wheat cent that filled one of my open slots thanks to this great hobby, and all the old feelings and memories of those early years of my life and the love I had for my grandparents came flooding back.
Yesterday, it happened again.
At a new site to me I found a 1920D really wrecked wheatie, but it looks beautiful in that little round hole where no other coin had ever been for the last 50 years.
This little park had some history but for some reason I missed it and never hunted it in the past.
It was supposed to be a public lake site but it was sold to a private family back in the late 1800's who in turn eventually filled in the lake and now has a small grassy area for me to play in and is also the site of a few ball fields and a community water park that was dedicated in 1968 after the family that owned it donated it to the county parks department.
Not only do I have a new little park to hunt that is in my area, I also found some clad, a few nickels, a couple of toy cars and a key and I don't think this park has been hunted much in the past because of the type of targets I dug up at this my first very short hunt at this site just to check it out.
At the very least if it has been hunted it was not hunted very well or only cherry picked.
Whatever, I am looking forward to spending some time at this beautiful place this summer because of what it might hold and the nice amount of shade trees it has on this site when it gets hot.
Not to mention the possibilities of a few more dear memories I might be able to bring back and experience with a few certain type of finds...if I am lucky.
Last November I finally found a coin that I could put in a space in one of my old books that I have been hauling around with me throughout most of my life.
I have nothing else left at all from my early days growing up as a kid but for some reason I managed to hang onto these 3 books I started as my coin collection back when I was 8 years old.
2 Lincoln cent books from 1909 to 1965 and a Jefferson nickel book from 38-61.
I was into filling these for awhile finding coins in change and I also was doing some coin roll hunting back then thanks to my grandparents that filled up some cigar boxes with cent rolls and gave them to me on each birthday.
I did pretty good and filled most of the later Lincoln book, lots of the early book and about half of the nickel book, but as most things in life when you are a kid I eventually moved on to other interests and put these books away.
Why I dragged these through my life or how they never got lost through all the moves I have no idea but I still have them.
Last November I finally found a 1935 wheat cent that filled one of my open slots thanks to this great hobby, and all the old feelings and memories of those early years of my life and the love I had for my grandparents came flooding back.
Yesterday, it happened again.
At a new site to me I found a 1920D really wrecked wheatie, but it looks beautiful in that little round hole where no other coin had ever been for the last 50 years.
This little park had some history but for some reason I missed it and never hunted it in the past.
It was supposed to be a public lake site but it was sold to a private family back in the late 1800's who in turn eventually filled in the lake and now has a small grassy area for me to play in and is also the site of a few ball fields and a community water park that was dedicated in 1968 after the family that owned it donated it to the county parks department.
Not only do I have a new little park to hunt that is in my area, I also found some clad, a few nickels, a couple of toy cars and a key and I don't think this park has been hunted much in the past because of the type of targets I dug up at this my first very short hunt at this site just to check it out.
At the very least if it has been hunted it was not hunted very well or only cherry picked.
Whatever, I am looking forward to spending some time at this beautiful place this summer because of what it might hold and the nice amount of shade trees it has on this site when it gets hot.
Not to mention the possibilities of a few more dear memories I might be able to bring back and experience with a few certain type of finds...if I am lucky.
You got some pretty bad weather yesterday huh?