Was Having a Slow Week, and THEN...

[William-NM]

Yesterday, I was driving past a little park that I've been wanting to hunt. It used to have some neat community-built play structures for the kids until the local crack-heads burned it down a couple of years ago. Been fenced off and off limits since then, but I see they've cleared and graded it. But I noticed that there are a couple of small curb strips outside the fence, so decided to give them a shot. Nothing but dirt, and seemed like they must have ground up all the metal trash in town and used it for fill. Was about to throw in the towel, when I got a strong 90s signal. I thought, ah, another 1950s car part, but dug anyhow, and it turned out to be a 1906 Barber Half dollar (pics below). Needless to say, I re-checked the area, but that was about it. I've been hunting in Pro Zero mode with Iron Audion on (=off??!!), and letting my ears do the discriminating, but these trashed out sites can wear you out.

I was mightily tempted to jump the fence and do some swinging over that target rich dirt. (at least three people have told me they lost gold rings at this park). Of course, I didn't, though I might wander by while they're working in there and see if I can do some hunting before they put down sod or whatever.

The pics are from my last 3 hunts: one at the CCC picnic grove (found out that the Gomez ranch was located there, they were victims of an 1885 Indian Massacre - I'm convinced that I'll eventually find some early items), a short creek hunt, and yesterdays trash-fest! Now the Barber quarter I found last week at the train depot spot has a big sister! And I got cheered up.

 

[park pirate]

Nice !!! a barber half and a barber quarter.....good job William that call's for...

 

[INCH]

Great finds William Now if those Big trees in the pics would just tell you where the rest of goods are

 

[MNCoinhunter]

Very nice silver finds !!

 

[Metal Magnet]

love barbers and the half is still on my want list! great job.

 

[26cent]

Nice finds William, wish I could find parks like that up here in Albuquerque. Just got back from two parks and came home with .98 cents for two hours detecting. Going to head down along Route 66 to a couple of parks that may have some age to them, will have to wait until next weekend.

 

[B.RATNY]

n/t

 

[mudpuppy]

n/t

 

[William-NM]

I'm SOOOO tempted - gotta be a reason the AT PRO is black -- for stealth attacks!!

26cent: Route 66 sounds like a great idea! And, all the early traffic was up and down the Rio Grande, those Spaniards must have dropped a few Reales along the way... I'm trying to GPS pinpoint an early trail that ran south of here, figure it would be a fun trip even if the finds are scarce.

 

[26cent]

Agree William, have to hunt down some of those old trails the Spaniards and early settlers used, have to be some older coinage on them somewhere. Rt 66 was heavily traveled, just hope lots of people lost some old coins trying to fish their keys out of their pockets while leaving the multitude of restraurants, gas stations and rest stops that used to exist.

 

[zonee]

Good hunting!

 

[Night Crawler]

Great finds William-NM. Thanks for the pictures.

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