Thursday: In the park
This park was built in 1895 and used to be quite popular in it's early years.
8 clad pennies, 1 clad dime, buncha junk (old stoneware pottery shard in upper right...):
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In my yard afterwards, another 1940 wheatie, 5 clad pennies, and in the upper right you can see a strange octagonal brass piece with an L-shaped brass bracket coming off the center of the back...no markings. The big thing on the left is another large chunk of lead pipe:
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Yesterday: In the park again
Lower right are a 1917 and a 1920 wheat (my oldest coin finds at the time!), 2 clad pennies, and 3 clad dimes. The rings in the upper right were all in the same 1.5-sq-ft area and appear to be brass grommets, like from an old canvas tarp or something. The whole area had campfire coals under the top half-inch of sod. On the left is a big piece of lead flashing:
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Softball field, on the way home from fishing
Most of this is from an area where bleachers once sat. 5 clad pennies, 2 clad dimes, and a clad nickel (only my second nickel!):
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Today: Under my pool
We were cleaning out the pool and had dragged it off of the spot we always have it on, a big round recessed area that the previous owner had dug out, to make a flat spot in the slightly-sloping yard. At about 15' diameter, it fits our pool perfectly. Anyhow my wife suggested that I run the detector there while I had the oppurtunity. Well, what a good idea - I can't believe I hadn't thought of it! In fact out came my first indian head penny, and probably my oldest coin find yet! Hopefully I'll know the date once it's done soaking in the olive oil, it's pretty corroded. Also a 1944 wheatie, 2 clad pennies, and a strange thin copper(brass?) disc, with 2 holes and a hinge on it, a lid to some kind of old case, I assume. In the upper left are 2 small chunks of lead, lower left is an empty pistol round that broke up while I was rinsing it off. Can't read the calibre, looks like a .38 or .380 to me:
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So again, my own back yard gives up the best finds yet for me!
This park was built in 1895 and used to be quite popular in it's early years.
8 clad pennies, 1 clad dime, buncha junk (old stoneware pottery shard in upper right...):
[attachment 93078 DSC00018.JPG]
In my yard afterwards, another 1940 wheatie, 5 clad pennies, and in the upper right you can see a strange octagonal brass piece with an L-shaped brass bracket coming off the center of the back...no markings. The big thing on the left is another large chunk of lead pipe:
[attachment 93079 DSC00027.JPG]
Yesterday: In the park again
Lower right are a 1917 and a 1920 wheat (my oldest coin finds at the time!), 2 clad pennies, and 3 clad dimes. The rings in the upper right were all in the same 1.5-sq-ft area and appear to be brass grommets, like from an old canvas tarp or something. The whole area had campfire coals under the top half-inch of sod. On the left is a big piece of lead flashing:
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Softball field, on the way home from fishing
Most of this is from an area where bleachers once sat. 5 clad pennies, 2 clad dimes, and a clad nickel (only my second nickel!):
[attachment 93081 DSC00031.JPG]
Today: Under my pool
We were cleaning out the pool and had dragged it off of the spot we always have it on, a big round recessed area that the previous owner had dug out, to make a flat spot in the slightly-sloping yard. At about 15' diameter, it fits our pool perfectly. Anyhow my wife suggested that I run the detector there while I had the oppurtunity. Well, what a good idea - I can't believe I hadn't thought of it! In fact out came my first indian head penny, and probably my oldest coin find yet! Hopefully I'll know the date once it's done soaking in the olive oil, it's pretty corroded. Also a 1944 wheatie, 2 clad pennies, and a strange thin copper(brass?) disc, with 2 holes and a hinge on it, a lid to some kind of old case, I assume. In the upper left are 2 small chunks of lead, lower left is an empty pistol round that broke up while I was rinsing it off. Can't read the calibre, looks like a .38 or .380 to me:
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So again, my own back yard gives up the best finds yet for me!
