My hunting buddies and I often kid each other about finding the old house where the kids threw coins at each other. Well, I came pretty close to hitting the mark today. Actually, I guess I hit it head on, but it wasn't exactly what I'd hoped for. I'm in Dayton, OH on a business trip so I brought my detector along. Something must have happened to the machine during transit because the sounds are good, but the display is really unreliable. That leaves me digging just about every coin sound I hear. Anyway, I located a home built in 1900 and it appeared to be well-kept. I approached the owner and quickly obtained permission to hunt. The front yard is fairly small, but I figured I'd pull a few silvers (that was probably the first sign I was getting too confident) out of it and then move on to another place. Including the islands of grass between the sidewalk and the street, the yard was about 40' by 15'. I hadn't move my coil 6" when I found my first coin - a memorial. Oh well, at least it wasn't trash. Another 6" and I found another coin - a memorial. This pattern repeated itself over and over again. Sometimes I would pull two or three pennies out of a hole. Again, they were all memorials. I have never seen such an even spread of coins - not even at a seeded club hunt. I noticed that a lot of the pennies had clusters of grass roots wrapped around them. If I didn't know better (and I really don't), I'd swear they used pennies as fertilizer. Well, I dug for about an hour and half, recovering 52 coins and a Hot Wheel car. The oldest coin was 1959 memorial...so close to just a simple Wheatie and yet... So I guess I found the place we'd been talking about, an old house littered with coins. From now on, I'm going to be a little more specific in what I ask for: the old house where the kids threw silver and gold coins at each other and no trash or modern coins have ever been dropped...that should cover it. For those curious about how much of the yard was covered, I made it through about half of it and I left a lot of pennies, or at least I think they were pennies...just playing the odds on that one.
HH,
David
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David
silver snatchers missed it, it was a worn 1926 merc with any mint mark it had long gone. I was satisfied with my ear discrimination but just out of curiosity I went back to the 10 signals I passed and dug them all up, they were all memorials! As usual it was my only silver of the outing but I am getting better i think.