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Why?
Because it was totally unexpected!
I have a huge park near me that I have been spending a lot of time at this summer.
Dedicated in 1964, this area in the park was one of the first developed but the area I found this at is just a piece of grass near the intersection of two sidewalks but not really near one of the first picnic pavilions built in the park.
I assumed lots of people walked over this patch of ground, but actually sitting here, hanging out and losing a bunch of pocket contents and jewelry like I find near most picnic areas didn't make sense to me geographically speaking so I never really hunted this area much before and always stayed closer to the pavilion when I scanned this part of the park, and the area around a small body of water that is also in the vicinity because these areas are where people tend to gravitate to.
I know now I was wrong.
I just started here because I was getting bored hunting my normal areas and just wanted a change of scenery in the short time I had on this visit.
Surprisingly, I found a bunch of trash here, old rusty smashed flat bottle tops, beaver tail tabs, some more modern sta-tabs and the usual bits of can slaw and even some foil.
I quickly searched a pretty large area with the big coil on the F70, I will return and do a much better job on future visits, but the goal was gold jewelry and of course any clad and silver jewelry I happened to come across.
I did find a small junk ring at first, but overall I really wasn't getting many hits on coins as I do in other areas of the park...mostly just the trash.
My pic of all the good finds from this quick visit running around this decently large area below.
Then I got a signal that was a bit jumpy, there was trash near it on both sides, but I maneuvered the coil till I got a pretty steady 86-88 on the screen with no drop when I rimmed the area with the edge of the coil like pop tops usually do so I bent down to dig a clad quarter.
I dug down about 4" and the PP said just a bit deeper so I stuck my digger way to the side an went under the target area with the tip and flipped up the dirt out of the hole.
Sitting there at the hole's edge still covered with a bit of soil was a quarter but not a usual dirty clad quarter because this one was totally clean and silvery.
I was rocked back on my heels a bit and took a breath...could it be?
I picked it up and shook the dirt off of it and yep, 1964, as silver as a silver coin can be.
Could have knocked me over with a feather...I have found a few silver coins in this park before but not in this area so totally unexpected and almost as surprising as when I turn over a plug expecting trash and see gold.
In air testing this thing is a pretty steady 86 on the F70 instead of my usual clad quarter 85 number so that is good to know.
My F2 did this too, 82 on clad quarters but a solid 83 on silver quarters every time.
I will be on the lookout for these slightly higher numbers in the future.
Now I have a totally new area to examine closer, the sniper coil will get a turn eventually and hopefully there might be more silver coins but there could definitely be more jewelry here too among the trash.
Man I love this hobby and all the surprises it comes up with from time to time.
I learned a good lesson...if you see some grass or soil ya gotta hit it no matter what you assume might be happening there.
You never know and you might be surprised, too.
Because it was totally unexpected!
I have a huge park near me that I have been spending a lot of time at this summer.
Dedicated in 1964, this area in the park was one of the first developed but the area I found this at is just a piece of grass near the intersection of two sidewalks but not really near one of the first picnic pavilions built in the park.
I assumed lots of people walked over this patch of ground, but actually sitting here, hanging out and losing a bunch of pocket contents and jewelry like I find near most picnic areas didn't make sense to me geographically speaking so I never really hunted this area much before and always stayed closer to the pavilion when I scanned this part of the park, and the area around a small body of water that is also in the vicinity because these areas are where people tend to gravitate to.
I know now I was wrong.
I just started here because I was getting bored hunting my normal areas and just wanted a change of scenery in the short time I had on this visit.
Surprisingly, I found a bunch of trash here, old rusty smashed flat bottle tops, beaver tail tabs, some more modern sta-tabs and the usual bits of can slaw and even some foil.
I quickly searched a pretty large area with the big coil on the F70, I will return and do a much better job on future visits, but the goal was gold jewelry and of course any clad and silver jewelry I happened to come across.
I did find a small junk ring at first, but overall I really wasn't getting many hits on coins as I do in other areas of the park...mostly just the trash.
My pic of all the good finds from this quick visit running around this decently large area below.
Then I got a signal that was a bit jumpy, there was trash near it on both sides, but I maneuvered the coil till I got a pretty steady 86-88 on the screen with no drop when I rimmed the area with the edge of the coil like pop tops usually do so I bent down to dig a clad quarter.
I dug down about 4" and the PP said just a bit deeper so I stuck my digger way to the side an went under the target area with the tip and flipped up the dirt out of the hole.
Sitting there at the hole's edge still covered with a bit of soil was a quarter but not a usual dirty clad quarter because this one was totally clean and silvery.
I was rocked back on my heels a bit and took a breath...could it be?
I picked it up and shook the dirt off of it and yep, 1964, as silver as a silver coin can be.
Could have knocked me over with a feather...I have found a few silver coins in this park before but not in this area so totally unexpected and almost as surprising as when I turn over a plug expecting trash and see gold.
In air testing this thing is a pretty steady 86 on the F70 instead of my usual clad quarter 85 number so that is good to know.
My F2 did this too, 82 on clad quarters but a solid 83 on silver quarters every time.
I will be on the lookout for these slightly higher numbers in the future.
Now I have a totally new area to examine closer, the sniper coil will get a turn eventually and hopefully there might be more silver coins but there could definitely be more jewelry here too among the trash.
Man I love this hobby and all the surprises it comes up with from time to time.
I learned a good lesson...if you see some grass or soil ya gotta hit it no matter what you assume might be happening there.
You never know and you might be surprised, too.
