A typical days find in the park we usually hunt will include a few wheat pennies possibly an Indian head penny or a silver dime (in the last 2 years it has only given up 3 silver quarters that I or my hunting partner found), this year so far we have collected 20 silver dimes close to 20 Indian head pennies. Needless to say it is very well hunted. Tuesday night after about 2 hours of hunting my partner came up with the first seated dime that I have ever seen dug out of this park. So Wednesday night I was going to hit the park for an hour before dark and try and even out the score, worked an area near an old oak tree and got a good solid silver hit and it showed that it was probably going to be about 7 - 8 inches down. Cut my plug and tipped it over just a very broken up sound from my probe so I dug another 3 inches out, now I got a good solid hit with the probe, dug another 2 - 3 inches of dirt checked the pile with the probe and nothing, looked in the hole and there sat what I thought to be a corroded modern half dollar. How could this be that deep? Oh well I don't get to dig many halves, pulled it from the hole and took a look, now it looks more like a slug, turned it over and rub a little dirt off and could see some lettering, rubbed a little more and one cent appeared in the center -That stopped me in my tracks, put it in my pocket and called my hunting partner to explain what I had just found. Knowing that I had just found my oldest coin I tried to continue my hunt but was not able to concentrate. Went home and carefully cleaned enough dirt off to see the date 1837 LC (This coin is 11 years older than the state I live in) Thanks Harryo for getting me hooked on this hobby
