floodplaindetector
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I saw mild weather coming this weekend so I researched a large city park I had never been to and got up Sunday morning well before dawn and headed a couple hours or so south.
Online snow maps helped me determine what areas were free of snow and I planned my outing and research based on that.
I thought this park had a good chance of still holding some good finds because of its age and size. To my delight there was no snow and the ground was completely soft.
After detecting for a few minutes at this park I could tell it had been hit pretty hard because of lack of high tones but it had good size and I had the Etrac with the Tornado coil so I kept at it.
Within an hour I pulled a couple buffalos and a few wheat pennies and a mercury dime and the old kids ring so I knew there were good targets left.
By 4 pm when it was time to head home I had a good pile of keepers as the park kept giving.
The merchant token and a few other coins came from a couple other parks along the way.
A surprise find was that real old good luck padlock (Pat June 24th 1879). That rang like a real loud silver quarter or half @ 8 inches deep.
4 of the 5 buffalo nickels gave me textbook nickel readings at about 6 inches. The 1919 was deeper and was iffier put passed the nickel range so I knew it could be something good.
A very fun winter hunt to say the least.
Coin Finds
Silver dimes are 1935,1937,1940,1942,1943,1944,1953
Nickels are 1919,1935,1936,1936,1937,1941,1942,1942,1944 (silver war nickel)
Indian head penny is 1888
16 Wheat pennies are back to 1912
Non Coin Finds
1940s-50s Hartford Junior Fire Marshall ring
Good for 5 cents Merchant token from small town (approximately 400 population)
Good luck padlock (pat 1879)
Old Carlisle Brewing Company pin
Plated Religious pendant
Small gold plated band pin (I had found a couple of these in past years)
Old music button
Gold plated pendant (cursive design)
A few bullets and misc items
Online snow maps helped me determine what areas were free of snow and I planned my outing and research based on that.
I thought this park had a good chance of still holding some good finds because of its age and size. To my delight there was no snow and the ground was completely soft.
After detecting for a few minutes at this park I could tell it had been hit pretty hard because of lack of high tones but it had good size and I had the Etrac with the Tornado coil so I kept at it.
Within an hour I pulled a couple buffalos and a few wheat pennies and a mercury dime and the old kids ring so I knew there were good targets left.
By 4 pm when it was time to head home I had a good pile of keepers as the park kept giving.
The merchant token and a few other coins came from a couple other parks along the way.
A surprise find was that real old good luck padlock (Pat June 24th 1879). That rang like a real loud silver quarter or half @ 8 inches deep.
4 of the 5 buffalo nickels gave me textbook nickel readings at about 6 inches. The 1919 was deeper and was iffier put passed the nickel range so I knew it could be something good.
A very fun winter hunt to say the least.
Coin Finds
Silver dimes are 1935,1937,1940,1942,1943,1944,1953
Nickels are 1919,1935,1936,1936,1937,1941,1942,1942,1944 (silver war nickel)
Indian head penny is 1888
16 Wheat pennies are back to 1912
Non Coin Finds
1940s-50s Hartford Junior Fire Marshall ring
Good for 5 cents Merchant token from small town (approximately 400 population)
Good luck padlock (pat 1879)
Old Carlisle Brewing Company pin
Plated Religious pendant
Small gold plated band pin (I had found a couple of these in past years)
Old music button
Gold plated pendant (cursive design)
A few bullets and misc items
