Tenspeed
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I went back to Charlotte today to work on the same site I have been hunting the past two weekends. It is just outside the center city and has turned into a good place to hunt.
In the previous two hunts I had the 1923 Mercury with the die defect and a 1929 SLQ (which was another 1st for me).
This week, the second coin I dug, after a clad quarter, was a 1904 Barber dime. This is my first ever Barber and I did a really big happy dance when I saw the wreath on the back.
As the day progressed, I hunted other areas in this green space and just around lunch I found a 1944 Merc.
I went to get lunch and also bought lunch for a homeless man that I had been talking with. He was so polite and really impressed me when he gave thanks for the meal I had provided. His landscaping employer had lost the contract and had to let him go a few months ago. I wished him well and wished I had a spare coat with me, because it is getting cold tonight and all he had was a thin jacket. The coat give away yesterday ran out before he could get one and he said some unscrupulous people had gotten coats and gotten back in line to get second ones.
After we had lunch I went back to it and not 20 feet from where we ate lunch, I found the 1941 S Merc. I watched the police clean up a pretty hard fender bender and then hunted around this same large tree some more and on the other side found the 1935 Merc.
I hunted all over and couldn't find much else except the usual clad. Ended up with 7 clad quarters, 5 clad dimes and 8 Memorial pennies.
I included the other relics I have found (except for what I think is a large cent and a possible King George copper I found today which is soaking in olive oil with the large cent). The Hormel Lucky Girl token is neat along with the heart thing that appears to be a pendant (it is very heavy and I wouldn't want to wear it). The other items are brass and cast iron and signs of the old building that were on the site for nearly 100 years.
I will quit typing and wish everyone out there good luck and no trouble in their hunting!
In the previous two hunts I had the 1923 Mercury with the die defect and a 1929 SLQ (which was another 1st for me).
This week, the second coin I dug, after a clad quarter, was a 1904 Barber dime. This is my first ever Barber and I did a really big happy dance when I saw the wreath on the back.
As the day progressed, I hunted other areas in this green space and just around lunch I found a 1944 Merc.
I went to get lunch and also bought lunch for a homeless man that I had been talking with. He was so polite and really impressed me when he gave thanks for the meal I had provided. His landscaping employer had lost the contract and had to let him go a few months ago. I wished him well and wished I had a spare coat with me, because it is getting cold tonight and all he had was a thin jacket. The coat give away yesterday ran out before he could get one and he said some unscrupulous people had gotten coats and gotten back in line to get second ones.
After we had lunch I went back to it and not 20 feet from where we ate lunch, I found the 1941 S Merc. I watched the police clean up a pretty hard fender bender and then hunted around this same large tree some more and on the other side found the 1935 Merc.
I hunted all over and couldn't find much else except the usual clad. Ended up with 7 clad quarters, 5 clad dimes and 8 Memorial pennies.
I included the other relics I have found (except for what I think is a large cent and a possible King George copper I found today which is soaking in olive oil with the large cent). The Hormel Lucky Girl token is neat along with the heart thing that appears to be a pendant (it is very heavy and I wouldn't want to wear it). The other items are brass and cast iron and signs of the old building that were on the site for nearly 100 years.
I will quit typing and wish everyone out there good luck and no trouble in their hunting!
