Eric in RI
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Good evening all! Managed to get out again to the park on my way home from work last night. It was extra hot at 82 degrees. My OFF just came right off due to the heat and sweat! Mosquitos biting me in every part they could. Including thru my shirt and into my back! Anyways, I started hunting a different part of this baseball field. Again, digging every signal unless I was 100% certain it was iron. Although this field is so littered with can slaw, foil wrappers, beaver tails, pull tabs of all various shapes and sizes, bottle caps, it can pretty much bring you to tears with all the mosquito bites just to dig a piece of junk. But, I do stand by digging the junk. Its very common for me to dig a piece of a pulltab and pull out 2 or 3 nails. Sometimes there's even a coin in there! Anyways I hunted for about a little over an hour before I couldn't stand it any longer. I got 1 quarter, 2 dimes, 2 nickels, a crap load of slaw, tabs, foil, you name it!
I did happen upon this rather peculiar signal. It said it was about 4 inches deep, I could hear hints of silver in the tone, but it broke up and rang more and more like a zinc penny rotting away. I went over it from multiple different angles and thought it could be an Indian, but when I went to pinpoint, it showed that it was a "large" target, usually this is a big piece of crushed can slaw. I had my doubts about this signal, but like I said, I dig trashy signals, crappy signals, broken up signals, signals mixed with iron... and this is why.
I cut a nice horseshoe plug, flipped her over and immediatly spotted a chain sticking out of the bottom of the plug. I snatched that bad boy like a little kid that was offered a piece of candy from his parents. LOL! I literally had no light so I used the moonlight, haha, the kids on the bleachers that were watching me probably thought, what the heck is that guy looking at? The moonlight helped, but still hard to read but I could see .925 on the clasp. Sweet, my first silver necklace for the year! It had this little teddy bear charm attached to the chain with a green gemstone for a face. But alas, the charm was plated silver. It started rubbing off when I started cleaning it. A copper alloy underneath. Oh well I dont care, the necklace itself is still silver because the clasp is stamped and the chains themselves shined up real nice!
The chain minus the charm weighed in at 5.8 grams. Not bad. About $6 worth of silver if I had to guess. Every little bit counts and its one more goody scored from this trashy field. I urge everyone, if you're in an old area, dig all! This ballfield / park has been in use since the 1880's. My oldest coin I ever dug here was a 1699 williams the 3rd half penny dug out of a rose bush. Our town was established in the late 1690's so this is period to that point in time. Most large cent signals and silver signals have disappeared. You still get the occasional wheat or silver here and there, but you gotta put in countless hours to get them. I will say this though, the old nickels are plentiful. Another reason why I dig pulltabs and junk signals. Deep nickels dont sound spot on with tone ID, hence why I dig junk. I'd say I've pulled about 30+ buffs, 15+ v-nickels, about 10 war nickels out of this place. I love people who cherry pick, I'll take an old nickel any day of the week! Just another shot at being a key date coin which is my goal as well as a gold coin. Thanks for reading my post and I'll try to get pictures of this years haul tonight. HH!
I did happen upon this rather peculiar signal. It said it was about 4 inches deep, I could hear hints of silver in the tone, but it broke up and rang more and more like a zinc penny rotting away. I went over it from multiple different angles and thought it could be an Indian, but when I went to pinpoint, it showed that it was a "large" target, usually this is a big piece of crushed can slaw. I had my doubts about this signal, but like I said, I dig trashy signals, crappy signals, broken up signals, signals mixed with iron... and this is why.
I cut a nice horseshoe plug, flipped her over and immediatly spotted a chain sticking out of the bottom of the plug. I snatched that bad boy like a little kid that was offered a piece of candy from his parents. LOL! I literally had no light so I used the moonlight, haha, the kids on the bleachers that were watching me probably thought, what the heck is that guy looking at? The moonlight helped, but still hard to read but I could see .925 on the clasp. Sweet, my first silver necklace for the year! It had this little teddy bear charm attached to the chain with a green gemstone for a face. But alas, the charm was plated silver. It started rubbing off when I started cleaning it. A copper alloy underneath. Oh well I dont care, the necklace itself is still silver because the clasp is stamped and the chains themselves shined up real nice!
The chain minus the charm weighed in at 5.8 grams. Not bad. About $6 worth of silver if I had to guess. Every little bit counts and its one more goody scored from this trashy field. I urge everyone, if you're in an old area, dig all! This ballfield / park has been in use since the 1880's. My oldest coin I ever dug here was a 1699 williams the 3rd half penny dug out of a rose bush. Our town was established in the late 1690's so this is period to that point in time. Most large cent signals and silver signals have disappeared. You still get the occasional wheat or silver here and there, but you gotta put in countless hours to get them. I will say this though, the old nickels are plentiful. Another reason why I dig pulltabs and junk signals. Deep nickels dont sound spot on with tone ID, hence why I dig junk. I'd say I've pulled about 30+ buffs, 15+ v-nickels, about 10 war nickels out of this place. I love people who cherry pick, I'll take an old nickel any day of the week! Just another shot at being a key date coin which is my goal as well as a gold coin. Thanks for reading my post and I'll try to get pictures of this years haul tonight. HH!
