I had a little time the other day, so I walked three houses up from mine to a home/apartments on a small town lot that I have permission to hunt. Last fall yielded two nice Barber quarters in the front yard, but I haven't done much hunting in the back due to a nearby electric fence. It generates multiple pulses every few seconds and makes my detector false in the "good" target range, making hunting quite a challenge. (Imagine having two clocks ticking in the same room -- one slightly fast, one slightly slow -- and then trying to pick out the sound of someone tapping a quarter on a table. Yuck.) Had to dial back the sensitivity, go very slowly, and try to avoid getting into a rhythm that might mask good targets with falsing.
I managed to find 9(!) matchbox cars dating from the 60s - 90s, several mason jar lids, and a handful of clad coins before coming across this spill of a 1930 SLQ, a 1936-S Merc, and a horribly corroded 1920 Buffalo, all about 4 inches down. Believe it or not, that's only my second Mercurcy dime (in many years of hunting off-and-on), and my first Standing Liberty; the latter has been on my bucket list for some time, as it's one of my favorite U.S. coin designs!
I managed to find 9(!) matchbox cars dating from the 60s - 90s, several mason jar lids, and a handful of clad coins before coming across this spill of a 1930 SLQ, a 1936-S Merc, and a horribly corroded 1920 Buffalo, all about 4 inches down. Believe it or not, that's only my second Mercurcy dime (in many years of hunting off-and-on), and my first Standing Liberty; the latter has been on my bucket list for some time, as it's one of my favorite U.S. coin designs!
