I don't believe any old park is hunted out. Sure, the finds may be thin, or almost non existant. Today I stopped at a city park on an out of the way highway that I had passed a couple of times before, but hadn't hunted. It's really the town spuare with old buiness buildings on three sides, and the highway on the fourth. I had only been there five minutes when an older gentleman came up to me to see how I was doing. In the course of our conversation he said the park was old. From the 1880's. He said every year they have a town fair on the grounds and afterwards it gets swept with metal detectors. No vergin ground there. I continued my hunt. As I went along, it became apparent it had been hit hard. I was finding coins, but mostly zinc pennies. Lots of trash. In the center was a new band stand and a picnic pavillion on one conner of the square. I found a number of new coins around the pavillion, but nothing was deep. Almost all surface coins. I went along the sidewalk around the band stand and got another shallow signal. From one intch down I popped out another dime. I casually looked at it and noticed a lady in a seated position. Truned out to be an 1857 O seated dime. I was stunned that this old coin was just below the surface. Then I started looking at the sidewalk. It looked brand new. My guess is that in the process of putting in a new sidewal, this coin become moved along with the dirt excavated for the sidewalk. A lucky find, but as they say, "timing is everything". I found 44 coins, in all. Mostly zinc pennies. No other old coins and nothing deeper than 3". But, maybe a smaller coil in the junky areas could rescue another old coin.
Thanks for looking,
jimmyk in MIssouri
Thanks for looking,
jimmyk in MIssouri
