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From two spots, a new corner house permission right on my block and some really old curb strips that have been cherry picked for decades...but still have treasures.
I can't choose which one I want to spend more time at so I split my hunts between both.
Using the Red Racer and big DD coil the first hunt at the home got me a 59 wheat on one quick visit then the next day with th F70 and sniper a 40's wheat and a general service cuff button from either the WW 1 or 2 eras.
It was deep and dirty so not really modern.
I switched to the big DD coil on the F70 and now the good stuff is starting to show up.
Another 1940 wheat along with a 1919 and a 1918.
I can smell silver here so just a matter of time.
At the curb strips with the Racer a cool Tootsietoy aircraft carrier, (first Tootsietoy boat), and a cast crotal bell in perfect condition that after cleaning rings like it was made yesterday.
Gotta be from the late 1800's to early 1900's before cars became more popular.
That was found in front of a neighborhood that is historical and has a park that goes back to 1898 and huge mansions were built around it starting in 1901 and most are still there.
The richest of the rich built these homes and at the time most were on two acre lots.
Legions of hunters have hit these strips in front of this park and neighborhood since the 60's or 70's but from what I can tell they all concentrated on the high stuff so all the low conductors are still in play.
The park and all the homes are private property so hunters have been drooling trying to get in there for decades but I have a friend that lives across the street that wants me to show him the ropes because he has a detector but never uses it and wants to start.
He says he has many friends that live in that enclave and pretty sure he can get us permission to hunt many of those huge properties.
When he told me that I think I tinkled a little.
On the way home in a curb strip near my house I found another one of those cheap, tiny kids locks but different this time in the same hole was two rusty nails...and the tiny key!
The lock was closed but at home I cleaned the dirt out and inserted the key and the silly thing opened!
The next day the F70 and sniper in those strips found me a small Du Barry, Richard Hudnut creme rouge compact with a swivel top that has pat. 4-27-26 on it but I think it was from the 40's or 50's and a wheatie from the 30's and one from the 40's.
All high conductors were evidently not culled from these things because of iron masking problems and I know how to spot them so I am hoping some silver is still there.
Third hunt with the F70 and big DD coil, which is going to be my weapon of choice for the near future, another 40's wheat and a 1927s wheat which now resides in a long time open hole in my 1909-1940 one cent collector book that I have been dragging around with me since 1965.
It is very worn but extremely beautiful to me.
Also one more thing and if it is what I think it is way, way cool!
An elongated coin, a smashed penny and the weirdest I have ever found and I have found a few.
This has the Lord's Prayer on it and it came up green under the dirt like other old coins I have found but I messed that beautiful green patina up cleaning it, darn it.
It has copyright 1933 imprinted on the back which is strange because I didn't know those pressing machines could do that.
Other clues about this thing, I scraped the edge on concrete and underneath the dirt and patina it looks copper or brass.
On the back very faint I can see a small section of what looks like the remains of elongated denticles... those little lines around the rim on both front and back of Indian heads.
The final clue was it did not come in as copper coin high like the other elongated copper coins I have found before, it is too old to be zincoln, a 61-62 usually on my Fisher but it is a mind bending 53...exactly the same area as a few Indian heads I have dug.
Not only an old elongated coin but one made from an Indian...if this is actually true I am going to count this as one of the coolest things I have ever found.
Only a guess but the clues all point to this so I am going with it until I can find some info that proves different.
It could be a brass planchet turned into one of these but I have never heard of any machines or any companies doing that...one cent coins have been used since these rolling/imprinting machines were invented in the late 1800's.
Going back to both sites of course, all kinds of excited on the possibilities and the challenges.
This hobby is just so blasted fun and surprising!
I can't choose which one I want to spend more time at so I split my hunts between both.
Using the Red Racer and big DD coil the first hunt at the home got me a 59 wheat on one quick visit then the next day with th F70 and sniper a 40's wheat and a general service cuff button from either the WW 1 or 2 eras.
It was deep and dirty so not really modern.
I switched to the big DD coil on the F70 and now the good stuff is starting to show up.
Another 1940 wheat along with a 1919 and a 1918.
I can smell silver here so just a matter of time.
At the curb strips with the Racer a cool Tootsietoy aircraft carrier, (first Tootsietoy boat), and a cast crotal bell in perfect condition that after cleaning rings like it was made yesterday.
Gotta be from the late 1800's to early 1900's before cars became more popular.
That was found in front of a neighborhood that is historical and has a park that goes back to 1898 and huge mansions were built around it starting in 1901 and most are still there.
The richest of the rich built these homes and at the time most were on two acre lots.
Legions of hunters have hit these strips in front of this park and neighborhood since the 60's or 70's but from what I can tell they all concentrated on the high stuff so all the low conductors are still in play.
The park and all the homes are private property so hunters have been drooling trying to get in there for decades but I have a friend that lives across the street that wants me to show him the ropes because he has a detector but never uses it and wants to start.
He says he has many friends that live in that enclave and pretty sure he can get us permission to hunt many of those huge properties.
When he told me that I think I tinkled a little.
On the way home in a curb strip near my house I found another one of those cheap, tiny kids locks but different this time in the same hole was two rusty nails...and the tiny key!
The lock was closed but at home I cleaned the dirt out and inserted the key and the silly thing opened!
The next day the F70 and sniper in those strips found me a small Du Barry, Richard Hudnut creme rouge compact with a swivel top that has pat. 4-27-26 on it but I think it was from the 40's or 50's and a wheatie from the 30's and one from the 40's.
All high conductors were evidently not culled from these things because of iron masking problems and I know how to spot them so I am hoping some silver is still there.
Third hunt with the F70 and big DD coil, which is going to be my weapon of choice for the near future, another 40's wheat and a 1927s wheat which now resides in a long time open hole in my 1909-1940 one cent collector book that I have been dragging around with me since 1965.
It is very worn but extremely beautiful to me.
Also one more thing and if it is what I think it is way, way cool!
An elongated coin, a smashed penny and the weirdest I have ever found and I have found a few.
This has the Lord's Prayer on it and it came up green under the dirt like other old coins I have found but I messed that beautiful green patina up cleaning it, darn it.
It has copyright 1933 imprinted on the back which is strange because I didn't know those pressing machines could do that.
Other clues about this thing, I scraped the edge on concrete and underneath the dirt and patina it looks copper or brass.
On the back very faint I can see a small section of what looks like the remains of elongated denticles... those little lines around the rim on both front and back of Indian heads.
The final clue was it did not come in as copper coin high like the other elongated copper coins I have found before, it is too old to be zincoln, a 61-62 usually on my Fisher but it is a mind bending 53...exactly the same area as a few Indian heads I have dug.
Not only an old elongated coin but one made from an Indian...if this is actually true I am going to count this as one of the coolest things I have ever found.
Only a guess but the clues all point to this so I am going with it until I can find some info that proves different.
It could be a brass planchet turned into one of these but I have never heard of any machines or any companies doing that...one cent coins have been used since these rolling/imprinting machines were invented in the late 1800's.
Going back to both sites of course, all kinds of excited on the possibilities and the challenges.
This hobby is just so blasted fun and surprising!
