I say a little more like it from the standpoint that fewer targets got dug this morning, but a few goodies in the bunch as well.
My buddy and I had been working a spot that in four hunts yielded us right around 600 clad and Memorials along with 29-30 wheat cents and 3 silver rings. Not one silver coin to be had. I put the call into Mudpuppy last night to hightail it down here and help us out with the clad situation. My buddy and I aren't accustomed to digging that many coins each outing.
Anyway, hit our old fairgrounds this morning having left it alone for a while and the old rascal yielded me several old coins and some clad and cents. As you can see from the pictures and from some others I have posted that this site is not kind to coins. Lots of decaying iron, broken asphalt and varying types of ground. If you can find a clean spot ground balances can run from the low 60 up near 80.
Was picking off a Memorial and a piece of clad here and then when I ran into my 1st of the 2 wheaties I got. I slowed way down and started working a grid in all directions out from the 1st wheat cent. All in all, in so doing, I ended up with a 17 Merc, a 1902 V nickel, a 1924 Buffalo and a 45d war nickel. The 2 wheat cents were 194? and 57. Everything was in the 2 to 5" depth range and I had on the 5" coil running in de mode and a modest 75 sen. HH jim tn
My buddy and I had been working a spot that in four hunts yielded us right around 600 clad and Memorials along with 29-30 wheat cents and 3 silver rings. Not one silver coin to be had. I put the call into Mudpuppy last night to hightail it down here and help us out with the clad situation. My buddy and I aren't accustomed to digging that many coins each outing.
Anyway, hit our old fairgrounds this morning having left it alone for a while and the old rascal yielded me several old coins and some clad and cents. As you can see from the pictures and from some others I have posted that this site is not kind to coins. Lots of decaying iron, broken asphalt and varying types of ground. If you can find a clean spot ground balances can run from the low 60 up near 80.
Was picking off a Memorial and a piece of clad here and then when I ran into my 1st of the 2 wheaties I got. I slowed way down and started working a grid in all directions out from the 1st wheat cent. All in all, in so doing, I ended up with a 17 Merc, a 1902 V nickel, a 1924 Buffalo and a 45d war nickel. The 2 wheat cents were 194? and 57. Everything was in the 2 to 5" depth range and I had on the 5" coil running in de mode and a modest 75 sen. HH jim tn
