Sixteen wheat's and what do you get?

[John 'n' W.Va]

A great time.
I did assessment of the house and saw that they entered it from the side. It has a block foundation. We had friends that lived here in the 50's so I was hoping to find a few wheat's and some silver. I noticed the farther I went up this street the fewer old coins I would find. Here is the view from the back of the house with the drive on the right hand side.

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I think the people scattered nails across the yard. The man that lived here was a mechanic and all I was finding auto- trash. I walked into the basement and got a surprise. There was a foundation in a foundation. The original looked like it was a one room house with a field stone foundation. The people here are lucky they got bought out. This place is in bad shape and is falling in. I searched everything from the floors, foundation to the walls. Nothing.

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I was ready to give up on this place. I had found two cents and a big spoon. The front of the house is fenced in with no gate to the street, but when I was a kid I remembered an access to the street. There use to be a walkway. I MD'ed from the porch to the street and started finding wheat's. Every coin hit except one was a wheat. I then realized that the back and the side yard was fill dirt.

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I found an other 1957 dime. I found one last week also.

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This is the total. 16 wheat's, 1957 dime. Most wheat's were newer 40's and 50's.

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[robert roy]

Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What machine were you useing?
Some of those trees in the back ground look like some kind of pine tree.
What state are you MDing in?

Regards
Robert R

 

[Rob M]

Very nice story and pics. I noticed when I scanned my parents house, the highest coin numbers were found were we parked to halfway to the house, which leads me to believe coins were pulled out of the pockets when removing the keys to enter the house.

 

[John 'n' W.Va]

[quote robert roy]Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What machine were you useing?
Some of those trees in the back ground look like some kind of pine tree.
What state are you MDing in?

Regards
Robert R[/quote]

ACE 250

They are mostly spruce.

I am in West Virginia.

 

[awhitster]

[quote John 'n' W.Va][quote robert roy]Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What machine were you useing?
Some of those trees in the back ground look like some kind of pine tree.
What state are you MDing in?

Regards
Robert R[/quote]

ACE 250

They are mostly spruce.

I am in West Virginia.[/quote]So the 'n' W.Va in your name means you are in W.Va. Whoo'd a thunk
Nice digs John. You are a legend on this board. Keep it up. Gotta love the silver. I have been a bottle digger / treasure hunter for over 40 years. You have to stop, look at a place and try and figure where and how people lived and used their property. By your results, it looks like you are good at it. You newbies take note. Don't just run in swinging that thang. Take a few minuets and "read" your location. That's how guys like Bill (Uncle Willy) become master treasure hunters. I'm heading in that direction myself. Yesterday I couldn't spell treasure hunter, now I are one.

 

[Rosco Bookbinder]

[quote awhitster] Yesterday I couldn't spell treasure hunter, now I are one.[/quote]

What about me? I found a couple of coins with my tector. Does that make me a treasure hunter??

Nice going there John in Va. Looks like you know how to read an area and work it. Great number on the wheaties for sure.

 

[John 'n' W.Va]

[quote Rosco Bookbinder][quote awhitster] Yesterday I couldn't spell treasure hunter, now I are one.[/quote]

What about me? I found a couple of coins with my tector. Does that make me a treasure hunter??

Nice going there John in Va. Looks like you know how to read an area and work it. Great number on the wheaties for sure. [/quote]

Thank you Rosco Bookbinder in Washington D.C.

 

[diggindirt]

Sixteen wheat's (tons) and what do you get, another day older and deeper in debt............Sorry I couldn't resist (that's a great old song)!!!!
Anyway, CONGRATS on the finds and cool post!!!

Thanks, and HH!!!

 

[Rosco Bookbinder]

[quote John 'n' W.Va]

Thank you Rosco Bookbinder in Washington D.C.[/quote]

John. I know why and I won't go there.

 

[bottlebum]

Congrats on the silver dime. Looks like a neat place to hunt. That underground area looks like a place where one would find human remains. Neat pics!

HH, Bottlebum

 

[Uncle Willy]

Hey you done good on the wheats and the dime was icing on the cake.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

Ain't we all.

Bill

 

[Ron from Michigan]

John,after that many wheat's you should find silver which you did a good job.One of my drive through to Roanoke to visit my retired parents I stopped at a little town off route 77 Marmet WVA. There is a baseball field by the Kanawha River where kids use to play little league baseball,which I was one of those kids.My dad worked for a coal company Carbon Fuel I know all about company stores and the coal town's.There were more ghost towns in WVA than all the western states combined in the late fifties just off the old two lane turnpike.(The famous ghost town Madrid New Mexico had nothing on these old WVA company coal towns which I searched in the mid seventies) Found some older wheat pennies near the pitcher's mound where a 12 year old southpaw use to pitch, but ran out of time and had to continue my trip.And yes even after 35 years @ GM I still sing that old song "one day older and deeper in debt Saint Peter don't you call I owe my soul to the Company Store"!!

 

[John 'n' W.Va]

Yes, you have the feel for the area. I fire bossed in the mines. I also graduated from Monroe High school in Mich. I have done a lot of traveling. I was an Air Force brat. Most of my family in Mich.works for Chrysler.
There are a LOT of ghost town, but oh the trash. I did a two mile hike last spring to a log cabin site where my mother was born. Neat pieces of junk. Iron stoves and old saws, but I couldn't bring all that junk home. Not one coin. Two coal mining brass tags.

 

[Ron from Michigan]

John,most of my relatives in that area have died.My parents two years ago went to a Carbon Fuel Reunion I met them there which used to be a big event.The old retired coal mine worker's at the gathering said a lot of the participates were dying off.Since then after the retiree picnic my dad and uncle and others have died not a lot of these old coal miners around.I always thought around Charleston a park close to the Capital building could yield some very old coins.Harper's Ferry area would probably be a very interesting place to hunt,probably impossible to get permission.