I've been wanting to hunt a park that's a little drive from my neighborhood, and away from my usual spot. I've had a hard time deciding to leave a place that usually produces to venture somewhere new, but this weekend I made the decision, and it paid off.
There wasn't a lot of trash like I was used to. I was able to drop my MD into Auto Sens +3 instead of my usual Manual 27, and I was getting targets at 9-10". Even the iffy signals were pretty good. The only annoying thing was the kids, and the ghetto adults that were drinking nearby that would constantly ask me if I found anything, and then laugh to themselves. Me finding money, as opposed to them do nothing but getting drunk, and they're laughing at me. Yeah. Anyway, on Saturday my best find was my last dig. It was pretty dark, and I didn't feel safe there anymore, so I dug what I thought was another clad dime. As I was walking back to my Jeep I started to rub the dime to clean some of the dirt off, and then I saw the unmistakable Barber head on it. I thought I was seeing things. It wasn't silver, at least not yet, and it was just a really dark dime. When I got it to the Jeep and turned on the overhead light, I could definitely tell it was a Barber dime, but it was covered in something odd. Tar maybe? I have no idea. I dipped it in some Tarn-X when I got home and as you can see from the picture below it really cleaned up nice. The substance on the dime was sticky. Only saw this one other time on the only Barber quarter I found at my other park.
I was very happy that on my first hunt here I found an old silver, and a Barber dime at that! So today I decided to do a 6 hour hunt, and see what I'd find. It was uneventful for the first few hours finding a Wheat here and there, some clad, but nothing I considered "great". I saw some large trees and noticed the dirt looked more compact around them, so started swinging in and out around the trunks. I hit an iffy but high pitched target that repeated 4 ways, but when I looked on the screen there wasn't the usual heat signature. (CTX) Odd. Still, it kept telling me that 7-8" down was something with a TID of 12-45/46/47. Turned on the camera to record the dig, and started cutting the plug. After a few scoops of dirt I saw the silver edge of a dime that was upside down but flat. I knew it was a Rosie, but wow, at 8"? The soil wasn't really soft, but I've seen weirder things in this hobby, so I didn't stand around pondering how it got that far down. I just cut around it and out came a nice 1949 Rosie. Two days, and two silver. Awesome. Didn't think it could get any better, that is until I walked over to the next tree and my first target was a deep nickel target at about 6-7", and when I dug that one, out popped a 1930 Buffalo!
OK, remember those "annoying" kids? They had a small dirt-bike and Go-Kart with them. The noise was so bad that I couldn't hear the pinpointer anymore, and could barely hear my tones in my headphones because these clowns were driving in and around me, not close, but close enough that I couldn't hear what I needed to. Invest in mufflers! ugh. I started walking off towards a field and swinging. I just wanted to get far enough away so I could hear my targets. I hit a really loud target that sounded shallow, but when I looked on the screen it said 7". Really? Must be junk, or so I thought. It was loud, repeating every which way, and was a steady 7", so I started digging. The soil was VERY soft. I figured I was gonna dig some trash since it was so loose, but when I got my PP on it, and grabbed it with my hand, I felt a large coin! I looked down and saw a large copper. I couldn't believe it was in that soft soil like that. It was pretty mangled though, so on camera I thought it was one of two things. Either it was a Large Cent, or a Colonial Copper. I was gonna wait until I got home to clean it off, but my curiosity got the better of me, so I poured some water on it and used my towel to scrub some dirt off. I immediately saw the Matron head and knew I found a Large Cent. Sweet. 3 really good keepers on the day, a bunch of Wheats, and yesterdays Barber dime. Love this place! Anyway, below are the rest of the pictures. Thanks for reading.
There wasn't a lot of trash like I was used to. I was able to drop my MD into Auto Sens +3 instead of my usual Manual 27, and I was getting targets at 9-10". Even the iffy signals were pretty good. The only annoying thing was the kids, and the ghetto adults that were drinking nearby that would constantly ask me if I found anything, and then laugh to themselves. Me finding money, as opposed to them do nothing but getting drunk, and they're laughing at me. Yeah. Anyway, on Saturday my best find was my last dig. It was pretty dark, and I didn't feel safe there anymore, so I dug what I thought was another clad dime. As I was walking back to my Jeep I started to rub the dime to clean some of the dirt off, and then I saw the unmistakable Barber head on it. I thought I was seeing things. It wasn't silver, at least not yet, and it was just a really dark dime. When I got it to the Jeep and turned on the overhead light, I could definitely tell it was a Barber dime, but it was covered in something odd. Tar maybe? I have no idea. I dipped it in some Tarn-X when I got home and as you can see from the picture below it really cleaned up nice. The substance on the dime was sticky. Only saw this one other time on the only Barber quarter I found at my other park.
I was very happy that on my first hunt here I found an old silver, and a Barber dime at that! So today I decided to do a 6 hour hunt, and see what I'd find. It was uneventful for the first few hours finding a Wheat here and there, some clad, but nothing I considered "great". I saw some large trees and noticed the dirt looked more compact around them, so started swinging in and out around the trunks. I hit an iffy but high pitched target that repeated 4 ways, but when I looked on the screen there wasn't the usual heat signature. (CTX) Odd. Still, it kept telling me that 7-8" down was something with a TID of 12-45/46/47. Turned on the camera to record the dig, and started cutting the plug. After a few scoops of dirt I saw the silver edge of a dime that was upside down but flat. I knew it was a Rosie, but wow, at 8"? The soil wasn't really soft, but I've seen weirder things in this hobby, so I didn't stand around pondering how it got that far down. I just cut around it and out came a nice 1949 Rosie. Two days, and two silver. Awesome. Didn't think it could get any better, that is until I walked over to the next tree and my first target was a deep nickel target at about 6-7", and when I dug that one, out popped a 1930 Buffalo!
OK, remember those "annoying" kids? They had a small dirt-bike and Go-Kart with them. The noise was so bad that I couldn't hear the pinpointer anymore, and could barely hear my tones in my headphones because these clowns were driving in and around me, not close, but close enough that I couldn't hear what I needed to. Invest in mufflers! ugh. I started walking off towards a field and swinging. I just wanted to get far enough away so I could hear my targets. I hit a really loud target that sounded shallow, but when I looked on the screen it said 7". Really? Must be junk, or so I thought. It was loud, repeating every which way, and was a steady 7", so I started digging. The soil was VERY soft. I figured I was gonna dig some trash since it was so loose, but when I got my PP on it, and grabbed it with my hand, I felt a large coin! I looked down and saw a large copper. I couldn't believe it was in that soft soil like that. It was pretty mangled though, so on camera I thought it was one of two things. Either it was a Large Cent, or a Colonial Copper. I was gonna wait until I got home to clean it off, but my curiosity got the better of me, so I poured some water on it and used my towel to scrub some dirt off. I immediately saw the Matron head and knew I found a Large Cent. Sweet. 3 really good keepers on the day, a bunch of Wheats, and yesterdays Barber dime. Love this place! Anyway, below are the rest of the pictures. Thanks for reading.
