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Fall finds at a local park

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MAcle1997

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I'd thought that this park was just about out of silver until I tried a different area this fall. The ground looks uneven in places and the grass is thin in spots. I think that's because this area didn't get the fill dirt and landscaping that the other areas did. My reasoning seems to have paid off because I went back 18 times between 28 September and 14 November and managed to get 16 silver dimes and six silver quarters pictured here. Just one or two silvers a day, but I kept going back until I covered all the unfilled ground I could find. Found two sterling rings as well. I went back to the same area after I scanned these at got another 1947 Roosevelt by hunting and an east-west grid pattern instead of the north-south pattern I used originally.
Last week I managed to find a nice 1918 Mercury dime out in an overgrown area that I had worked on last year. The terrain out there is pretty tough but there is almost no trash once you get away from the treeline. All the coins I've found out there date between 1887 and 1926 so I'll definitely go back. Its much easier to hunt that overgrown area in the fall and spring. Less vegetation, no insects and I don't have to worry as much about the poison ivy.

Dimes pictured - 1898, 1920, 1926, 1928, 1942 x2, 1943, 1944, 1945 x2, 1946, 1946-D, 1947, 1952-D, 1961. 1963-D

Quarters - 1897, 1898, 1903, possible 1928-S but I can't be sure, 1943, and a 1900 Canadian

Hope you've got a mild winter so far and can still get out detecting.
Merry Christmas!

Mark in Western New York State
Minelab E-Trac, stock Minelab coil with Sun-Ray X-1 probe, X-8, X-12 coils
 
Good Keeping An Eye on the Landscape I think We All have Learned Something good From A Fellow TH today Congrats HH
 
I'd say you did pretty well congratulations on all the silver :)
 
Congrautlations on the finds. Thanks for the pictures.

NebTrac
 
Very nice finds there...looks like you made the best of it, congrats
 
Wow!!! That is a dream site, coins predating the 1920s and low trash! Amazing collection! Very high quarter count!

Did you skip the pennies? You should be finding IH cents left and right? Maybe that is why you did not find many Barber dimes. The ones I have found registered lower than a merc, 12-42. What did your mercs and Rosies register? Mine have been 12-44, 12-45 for a merc, and 12-46 for a Rosie. It also makes me wonder if you pattern is including half dollars? 6-46 8-45, dollars 1-42?

You should have found as many barber dimes as you did barber quarters, literally a 100 wheats, a war nickel or two and at least a few buffaloes and Vs as well! Especially as low trash as you said that area was, every signal would be something, either a keeper or an old interesting piece of trash.

Don't forget the $5 gold pieces at 12-31. You never know there could be one considering the date range from 1980s until the roaring 20s, and this must have been an after church picnic grounds or something... $1gp 12-11, $2.5gp 12-22, $10gp 12-38, $20 gp 12-44. Considering that it took you 18 days to cover this area it could be too spread out to go back through and get the lesser goods, this probably explains the cherry picked state of every old public spot I have detected.
 
Congrats on all the silvers! I love sites that keep producing like that. I bet you'll go back next year and pull even more =)
 
I'll definitely keep going back. The coins pictured were found in an open, grassy area of the park. Plenty of trash there, especially pull tabs and screw caps. I tried to dig everything 12-42 and higher and lower signals that sounded better than trash or had a solid digital ID. I still got plenty of trash but it was worth it. I did find a few deep Indian Cents, a 1920 Buffalo Nickel, a few older Jefferson Nickels and the usual clad. Next year when I hunt that same area I want to try TTF, different coils, different swing direction and dig more low signals. The silver dimes pictured ranged from 12-42 to 12-46. There wasn't any difference between Barber, Mercury of Roosevelt. The 1898 Barber Dime was just three inches deep about a foot from a large tree. The others were between three and seven inches deep. All the quarters had pretty clear signals. I don't know why they weren't found earlier. Maybe I'm the first to cover that area with and E-Trac. :minelab: I've tested my settings on silver halves and dollars and get clear signals, so maybe I'll find some big silver next year.
The forested area of the park is a different story. Almost no trash once you get away from the tree line. I can get 26-27 on auto-sensitivity without a problem. I usually do dig all signals out there, just to give my swinging arm a break. I found two bird bands that I reported, one from a Mallard and one from a Horned Grebe. The grebe was banded in January of 2012. I'm surprised I had to dig for one so recent. Other finds from that forest area include a brass lock, Indian Cents and Liberty Nickels, a very old silver plated teaspoon and a marijuana pipe.
 
MAcle1997 said:
I'll definitely keep going back. The coins pictured were found in an open, grassy area of the park. Plenty of trash there, especially pull tabs and screw caps. I tried to dig everything 12-42 and higher and lower signals that sounded better than trash or had a solid digital ID. I still got plenty of trash but it was worth it. I did find a few deep Indian Cents, a 1920 Buffalo Nickel, a few older Jefferson Nickels and the usual clad. Next year when I hunt that same area I want to try TTF, different coils, different swing direction and dig more low signals. The silver dimes pictured ranged from 12-42 to 12-46. There wasn't any difference between Barber, Mercury of Roosevelt. The 1898 Barber Dime was just three inches deep about a foot from a large tree. The others were between three and seven inches deep. All the quarters had pretty clear signals. I don't know why they weren't found earlier. Maybe I'm the first to cover that area with and E-Trac. :minelab: I've tested my settings on silver halves and dollars and get clear signals, so maybe I'll find some big silver next year.
The forested area of the park is a different story. Almost no trash once you get away from the tree line. I can get 26-27 on auto-sensitivity without a problem. I usually do dig all signals out there, just to give my swinging arm a break. I found two bird bands that I reported, one from a Mallard and one from a Horned Grebe. The grebe was banded in January of 2012. I'm surprised I had to dig for one so recent. Other finds from that forest area include a brass lock, Indian Cents and Liberty Nickels, a very old silver plated teaspoon and a marijuana pipe.
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Very cool! I love hunting in the woods, best luck on your next visit there.
 
Thanks for the details! Based on the results, that many quarters, it really seems like you are the first to detect there, as if you found some overlooked wooded area.
 
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