A rather puzzling morning woods hunt.:teknetics:

[jim tn]

Grabbed the trusty Omega again this morning and within 10 minutes of entering the woods ran into a pretty fresh coin spill beside a large down tree. Got a bunch of hits over a pretty broad area and when I kicked leaves aside I spotted several pennies and dimes. Started picking them up and glancing at them as I pocketed them and searching around with the pin pointer when I noted 1 of the pennies was a wheat cent in very nice shape. A 51d. Continued plucking coins out of the dirt when I again noted 1 of the dimes had a silver look. Sure enough, a 62 Rosie?? Kept working the pin pointer picking up more cents and clad dimes when low and behold, another silver Rosie. This time, a 1961. Both the 61 and 62 turned out to have D mint marks. Among the spill was 1 new nickel. After checking the whole area again carefully and determining there were no more coin targets, I move on. For the remainder of the hunt I dug 2 more wheaties, 37 and 47, 1 nickel, 1 clad dime, 2 Memorial cents and 4 no cash value tokens. All in all, the spill contained 22 Memorial cents, 1 nickel, 10 clad dimes, 1 wheat and 2 silver dimes. Sure makes one wonder about the 2 silvers and 1 wheat cent in a modern coil spill. I hunted a strip of woods along a major street with heavy power lines on both sides and had no emi issues what so ever using the 11" coil and running 99 sen and 1 disc. HH jim tn

 

[Furious T]

Very interesting collection, Jim. Sometimes I wonder if it's best not to know the story behind some of the things we find. HH

 

[Old Pirate]

Good and unusual find. I've found spills before, but only all clad stuff. Lucky you.....hit some silver. Really makes you wonder what time slot that came from.

 

[jim tn]

Old Pirate, had to have been a fairly recent spill. Many of the coins were still on top of the dirt and the others just barely under. Very little staining had yet occurred, either. I've plucked two silver Rosies out of wood chip tot lots this year and still get a wheatie in change once in a while. So, I guess a few older coins are still getting circulated. HH jim tn

 

[chuck ky]

i find wheats lost recently in wood chip playgrounds so they still circulate. haven't found silver like that in awhile but a few years ago i found 4 silver quarters around some swings.

 

[Elton]

What are the dates on other coins found with the silver and wheats ??

 

[jim tn]

I really didn't check them Elton. I know there was 1 2011 dime and nickel and a couple of the newest 1 cent. HH jim tn

 

[mudpuppy]

Indeed thats a puzzler! like you and Chuck, I've found fresh drop wheats in totlots...and I read on some other forum some guy finding a silver dollar fresh drop on a soccerfield, good luck charm, no doubt...but a spill like you just found is strange..I do know certain kids have the propensity to rob poor old granpas coin collection, and go spend it on peppermint sticks and penny whistles occasionally...I'm just gonna chalk this up to Jim being a silver magnet.
Mud

 

[laserfeller]

Are the portraits on those two rosies different or is it just my imagination?

 

[jim tn]

Taking a closer look laserfeller, I see what you mean. Can't tell if it could be a shadow on the left one, or not, but the portrait outlines don't quite seem the same. I'll dig them out of my Rosie compartment and take a closer look. More to add to the puzzle, maybe? If one turns out to be a one of a kind mint mistake, I'll owe you one. HH jim tn

 

[mudpuppy]

The 62 looks like Cary Grant, and the 61 looks like Harry Truman!
Mud

 

[dave5710]

The number of people under 40, who know what a silver coin is, is pretty small. Every chance I have, I like to stop at banks and ask if they have any half dollars, that I could buy. If the teller is an older lady, I almost always get a quick, sharp NO. If it is a younger teller they will often gather up all the halves from all the other windows and even check the vault. They are happy to get rid of them. They just don't care. One less thing to count. They don't get excited about finding a coin worth $2 or $3. Heck that wouldn't even buy the cup of coffee they get at Starbucks every morning. But they also have no idea a little piece of silver the size of a dime, could be worth a couple bucks. The only money the younger generations are interested in, is the folding kind. The coins most likely came out of a junk drawer at Grandma's house.

A double silver day is still pretty good day in my book. Way to go.

 

[Old Pirate]

The tale of silver in Grandmas dresser may be true. My mother gave me a few Morgans to remember my Grandmother by, way the heck back in 87, and I still have them put away, maybe pass them down to one or a couple of the grand children when the time comes. The wheat's are still all over. I find one about every third trip. Found one yesterday, pretty corroded 1952 D, about 8 inches down in the clay with my Teknetics 10" DD coil. Good coil for wet ground. Amazing how much stuff is out there.