diggin jimmy hoffa
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Hope everyone survived the rash of storms late Saturday evening early Sunday morning here in the Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio areas.
I certainly thought the Sunday hunt was gonna be a wash, as my detecting buddy and I were heading to a spot we like to refer as Area Dirty-one for some dirt digging.
First good target was the '43 Merc. in an area that we have pounded the heck out of since we found this particular spot. He pulled a Indian shortly after that he and I had walked over many times before. So we pounded this partilcular site for a couple of more hours and decided to recon some of the other 100 acres just to see what we had missed or what we could find.
So we settled in on an area that we had never hit before and the first target I dug was a tiny disc shape that certainly resembled a coin, but wasn't quite sure what it read. We both thought it said Centimo or Centavo, but it had anough dirt and corrosion to make it not fully readable even with glasses and magnifier. Found out later that it was a Lucky Play Money with Franklin D. Roosevelt on it. Pulled a '53 Washington Quarter not long after that and the icing on the cake was the Standing Liberty Quarter with "S" mint mark dead in the middle of the lawn at 8" deep. Dug the 1910 Wheatie sometime after the SL.
Pulled a couple of Award medals as well. One is for Varsity Speech and the other with the person kneeling is not known what that was for.
I certainly thought the Sunday hunt was gonna be a wash, as my detecting buddy and I were heading to a spot we like to refer as Area Dirty-one for some dirt digging.
First good target was the '43 Merc. in an area that we have pounded the heck out of since we found this particular spot. He pulled a Indian shortly after that he and I had walked over many times before. So we pounded this partilcular site for a couple of more hours and decided to recon some of the other 100 acres just to see what we had missed or what we could find.
So we settled in on an area that we had never hit before and the first target I dug was a tiny disc shape that certainly resembled a coin, but wasn't quite sure what it read. We both thought it said Centimo or Centavo, but it had anough dirt and corrosion to make it not fully readable even with glasses and magnifier. Found out later that it was a Lucky Play Money with Franklin D. Roosevelt on it. Pulled a '53 Washington Quarter not long after that and the icing on the cake was the Standing Liberty Quarter with "S" mint mark dead in the middle of the lawn at 8" deep. Dug the 1910 Wheatie sometime after the SL.
Pulled a couple of Award medals as well. One is for Varsity Speech and the other with the person kneeling is not known what that was for.