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I had an opportunity to go watch the Vikings play the Colts this past weekend. I was not in Indianapolis very long but I was very impressed with the city. Very clean, nice and well kept. It really looked much like Salt Lake City. The game stunk tho, as the Vikings lost <img src="/metal/html/frown.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":("> . Anyway,
While in Indianapolis I saw some nice looking places to swing, and I was wondering if anybody on this forum has hit these places. It looked like to me that I could pull a few silvers out of Military Park, then I saw a few parks along Washington Street. If anybody can tell me any stories of this area I would appreciate it very much. I am looking at planning a trip back east to do nothing but swing, but I don
 
Military Park was once a Union POW camp. However it is filled in so deep that you would need a dozer to scrape enough YARDS away and then you'll find squat.
If that isn't enough, Militery Park is now the home of the INDY Jazz Festival. Id you are going for lost jewelery, it might be a good site. But above all Military Park is a STATE Park! No one has been arrested for detecting there that I know of. However, they can.
Parks are now good sites for the Explorer. If you hunt the parks on West Washington street however, be aware that the neighborhoods surrounding those parks are shall I say.....active? Hunt only in daylight and keep your head on the swivel.
Metropolitian Indianapolis can be good hunting. However, if you are going for the old stuff, its called chasing dozers, constantly looking for sidewalk renovation, and construction and demolition in old neighborhoods.
The old coins & artifacts in Indiana are in the FARMFIELDS!! Find the old platt maps, compare them to the newest, contact the owners to get permission.
There is where the old home sites, school houses, sawmills and alike were. You walk the fields and look for broken crockery, chunks of brick and glass. Any non-ferrous contact could be that seated coin.
Steve in Indianapolis
 
I have hunted Indianapoilis in the past and have found a few coins but not enough to keep me going back. Never did find a seated or a barber coin. I haven't hunted each and every place or every square inch of the places I did hunt but you get the idea. I know there have been good ones found there in the past by others. I would think that yards would be a good place there if you can get permission.
 
I went out to a local park/playground area for about an hour and a half yesterday afternoon. I got, among clad, a 1901 Indian Head penny, a 1926 Mercury dime, and 2 Barber dimes, a 1910 and a 1911. Keep in mind that this is not a typical day for me, but I just got a used EXII 2 weeks ago and have gotten silver the last 5 times out. If you want to hunt coins, come to Massachusettts.
 
So far this year I have found 22 seated coins but just not in Indy...good luck!
 
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