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Back to the old town but not much luck
- Thread starter Old Katz
- Start date
joe dirt_1
Active member
old katz, looks like a pretty good hunt to me. what is the item with the ?? underneath it? looks to be and old wheatie or indian head penny by the color of it. can you take a close up pic of it? good luck .......roger
RickIowa2009
New member
Your getting better, finding some cool stuff
Uncle Willy
New member
Looks good to me. Had a cap pistol like that when I was a kid.
Bill
Bill
I been doin some readin lately, which only reinforces something I've long held to be a truism in detecting: finding silver coin is the exception, and hardly the rule we would like it to be.
The most recent reading was from an old man who lived from the late 1800's, and was making his comments in the 1970's. He told about how folks out in the country and small little towns where he lived didnt have 'nuttin. They grew their own food, they raised their own animals and had what they could make for themselves. When they got a few dollars, say after the harvest, they carefully held on to it until they could get to the nearst supply store. The few coins that might be left over would buy a bit of candy or tobacco as a treat. For the most part, money itself was scarce and hard to come by. So naturally there wasnt much lost.
So if you are hunting old towns and farmsteads that were small and perhaps isolated in their time, you run a great chance of finding little to nothing in the way of coin. Oh, here and there, a few may turn up - and we know they do. This is where research pays off as to just what sort of place it was and just what might have been there. You want to look for things like, taverns, post offices, graineries, stables, small stores and so on - the few places where people congregated and/or money was exchanged. At old house places you want to determine where the paths were, the outhouse, the front and backs of the house, where wagons or old care might have been pulled up and where the gardening and laundry might have been done.
But, remember, in such "outaways places," wherer peopl were few and money seen even less, the law of averages are conspiring against you.
The most recent reading was from an old man who lived from the late 1800's, and was making his comments in the 1970's. He told about how folks out in the country and small little towns where he lived didnt have 'nuttin. They grew their own food, they raised their own animals and had what they could make for themselves. When they got a few dollars, say after the harvest, they carefully held on to it until they could get to the nearst supply store. The few coins that might be left over would buy a bit of candy or tobacco as a treat. For the most part, money itself was scarce and hard to come by. So naturally there wasnt much lost.
So if you are hunting old towns and farmsteads that were small and perhaps isolated in their time, you run a great chance of finding little to nothing in the way of coin. Oh, here and there, a few may turn up - and we know they do. This is where research pays off as to just what sort of place it was and just what might have been there. You want to look for things like, taverns, post offices, graineries, stables, small stores and so on - the few places where people congregated and/or money was exchanged. At old house places you want to determine where the paths were, the outhouse, the front and backs of the house, where wagons or old care might have been pulled up and where the gardening and laundry might have been done.
But, remember, in such "outaways places," wherer peopl were few and money seen even less, the law of averages are conspiring against you.
myfantasia
New member
I love finding the old cars and toys, Know there not worth anything but memories, but I'll take them.
Uncle Willy
New member
Yeah I have told everyone that fact many times when they hit some old place and didn't find squat. Folks back then didn't have any money ( I know as I lived back then ) and what few coins they had ( which were far more valuable then than now ) were carried in a coin purse, not loose in their pockets. A nickel back then was equal to about ten bucks today. Five nickels during the Depression would pay your way into the movies and buy you a popcorn, candy bar, and coke, Equate that to doing the same today. Two nickels would buy a gallon of gas or a sixteen ounce schooner of beer with a free sandwich. Times have changed drastically and when you hunt an old area you must relate to those times and the economy then..A lot of folks bartered for goods as they didn't have " ANY " money.
Bill
Bill
lazyaussie
New member
dahut & Bill have given some great advice 
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congrats on the nice finds.
lazyaussie
.congrats on the nice finds.
lazyaussie
