Mike Moutray - St.Louis MO
Member
Another slow day at work so I took off a little early to do some detecting before our club meeting tonite. I had my eye on a particular park in the city for many years, but never hunted it because I assumed it was built in the 1960's and not worth the effort when I had better places always available.
When I was researching a couple other spots, this park popped up again but the info with it was that it was actually built in the early 1930's. That definitely piqued my interest, especially since I also knew there was a lot of activity in that area during WWII and I was pretty confident that that park saw little if any detecting activity in recent years.
So that's where I headed for the afternoon for a couple hours. I started hunting and noticed there was a lot of trash and interference, but I soon had a deep silver hit. Up popped a Merc and Roosy in the same hole - a good start! I soon started getting good targets everywhere and they were deep - about 7-8 inches. Wheaties galore and more silver came to light.
This park was loaded with 2-3" deep clad coins, almost to the point that they were a big nuisance in trying to pick out the deep hits to dig. Yeah, this place hadn't been hunted since the early 1980's during the "silver rush" and they pretty much cleaned out the older clad and newer silver between 4-6 inches deep, but that was just fine with me as I had plenty of deep targets to dig. At one point I dug a silver quarter and 2 Mercs out of the same hole and I noticed it was getting close to time to go, so I just concentrated on the high silver hits and left the not-so-high wheatie hits behind.
I finished up with 10 silver coins - 2 Washington Quarters, 7 Mercs, and 1 Roosy (I liked digging mostly Mercs instead of Roosies) and 33 wheats, but the big surprise would come later at the club meeting.........
After the meeting began I took out my finds and started to clean them up (I dont look at dates when I hunt - I leave that for later) and half way through the wheaties THIS popped up!!!
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1914D wheatie!!! It is in great shape, especially since most of the other wheaties were typically trashed by the bad soil. What a surprise! This is my 3rd 1914D wheatie I've ever found.
Here's the whole group of finds... I only covered a small portion of this park and left the best side to be hunted later and you can bet I will... VERY soon.... maybe today will be slow at work.........
Take care and HH, Mike.
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When I was researching a couple other spots, this park popped up again but the info with it was that it was actually built in the early 1930's. That definitely piqued my interest, especially since I also knew there was a lot of activity in that area during WWII and I was pretty confident that that park saw little if any detecting activity in recent years.
So that's where I headed for the afternoon for a couple hours. I started hunting and noticed there was a lot of trash and interference, but I soon had a deep silver hit. Up popped a Merc and Roosy in the same hole - a good start! I soon started getting good targets everywhere and they were deep - about 7-8 inches. Wheaties galore and more silver came to light.
This park was loaded with 2-3" deep clad coins, almost to the point that they were a big nuisance in trying to pick out the deep hits to dig. Yeah, this place hadn't been hunted since the early 1980's during the "silver rush" and they pretty much cleaned out the older clad and newer silver between 4-6 inches deep, but that was just fine with me as I had plenty of deep targets to dig. At one point I dug a silver quarter and 2 Mercs out of the same hole and I noticed it was getting close to time to go, so I just concentrated on the high silver hits and left the not-so-high wheatie hits behind.
I finished up with 10 silver coins - 2 Washington Quarters, 7 Mercs, and 1 Roosy (I liked digging mostly Mercs instead of Roosies) and 33 wheats, but the big surprise would come later at the club meeting.........
After the meeting began I took out my finds and started to clean them up (I dont look at dates when I hunt - I leave that for later) and half way through the wheaties THIS popped up!!!
[attachment 98625 17jul081914Dwheat.JPG]
1914D wheatie!!! It is in great shape, especially since most of the other wheaties were typically trashed by the bad soil. What a surprise! This is my 3rd 1914D wheatie I've ever found.
Here's the whole group of finds... I only covered a small portion of this park and left the best side to be hunted later and you can bet I will... VERY soon.... maybe today will be slow at work.........
Take care and HH, Mike.
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Take care and HH, Mike.