My first demo site...

[marcomo]

Got permission to hunt a site with several vacant houses slated to be demo'd for new development.

Decided to take pictures of the finds as I went along. Except for the 1964 rosie, all the finds were made from 7/10-8/1 at the same demo site with the F75 LTD.

Five houses that dated from the 1920's to 70's. Over half of the good finds were found in the big backyard of one house that my research showed was built in 1945. On my first day of hunting, 7/10, I had my best silver day yet with 6 silvers if you include the war nickels, which I do.

The 1964 dime was from last Sunday and is my silver coin #99. I know a ton of dimes were minted in 64, but I'm still surprised that the two silver rosie dates I've found the most are 1964 and 1964-D with five each now. Because of the rapid removal of silver from circulation, it's a high probability they were dropped between 1964 and 1966 which is a really short window for droppage.

 

[Hombre]

Very Nice!!!!

It looks like the site is a good one, and it would pay off to dig every solid signal in a place like that. You never know what you might find, good luck.

 

[Idaho PRB]

That is really cool! Great finds.

 

[marcomo]

Thanks guys. One last hunt there yesterday for 45 minutes after work turned into an hour and a half as I kept saying one more target trying to find my silver #100. And my 20th "better than wheat" coin from the area. I did find it (same as silver #99 1964 no mintmark, except it was a quarter instead of a dime) along with three wheats in one backyard area I had only skimmed unsuccessfully before. With those three wheats, that brings my wheat total at that site to 96.

I've pounded the yards and I'm probably done hunting there, but I should take my camera and take some pictures before they tear the houses down. Guess I'll have fond memories of what was whenever I see the new development. I was told early in July that the houses would probably come down sometime in August.