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The last week of last month was my best week ever in this hobby because I posted my finds from one little park at 2 successive hunts in that week that just happened to be 3 gold rings.
I got one of the rings re-sized and I am proudly wearing it now and I posted about that too, but in all the excitement I forgot to tell you guys of my other neat find at this same park on August 30th in that same week and my 4th trip to what I am now calling my "golden" park.
Also with the F2 and the sniper coil, I am on a roll with that one, and I was moving around those same basketball courts looking for even more gold, going slow, overlapping and digging all signals like before, when I came across a solid 92 on the F2.
This was not a false high tone like big iron or steel, tin or aluminum in the vicinity could produce, it repeated in the same exact spot and both the pinpoint on the F2 and my Propointer told me this was not a huge object at all...and only about 2-3 inches deep.
After digging thousands and thousands of targets I have found only one other signal in the 90's that was ever a good one, and that was a WWII challenge coin of some sort that was as big as a Morgan silver dollar.
I opened up a hole and folded over a small plug and looked inside but nothing.
Used the Propointer on the plug, nothing there, stuck it in the bottom of the hole, and it did go off but it led me to the side.
I looked and saw a dirty large round object which was standing on edge straight up and down, and I was confused.
At first I thought it was a large knock out plug from some sort of electrical box, or maybe a token, although I never heard of one this big.
I pulled it out and looked and found a nice surprise.
A 1978 Eisenhower dollar!
Not an S mint mark this is a D, but even though it is not silver still a cool find because it is huge and the last of the large type circulated coins the mint has made because they went to the smaller dollar Sacajawea coins the next year.
I cleaned it with some vinegar in my tumbler, (I won't do that again because it screwed up the look...but it did clean it), and now it is going to be my lucky coin that I will carry next time the wife and I head to the casino...the only other place I remember seeing a large amount of these in the days when slots used to take coins.
The largest coin I have found so far, the first "silver dollar" I ever found...even though it has no silver in it, and another very cool find from my "golden" park.
I wonder what I will find on my next trip out there.
HH
I got one of the rings re-sized and I am proudly wearing it now and I posted about that too, but in all the excitement I forgot to tell you guys of my other neat find at this same park on August 30th in that same week and my 4th trip to what I am now calling my "golden" park.
Also with the F2 and the sniper coil, I am on a roll with that one, and I was moving around those same basketball courts looking for even more gold, going slow, overlapping and digging all signals like before, when I came across a solid 92 on the F2.
This was not a false high tone like big iron or steel, tin or aluminum in the vicinity could produce, it repeated in the same exact spot and both the pinpoint on the F2 and my Propointer told me this was not a huge object at all...and only about 2-3 inches deep.
After digging thousands and thousands of targets I have found only one other signal in the 90's that was ever a good one, and that was a WWII challenge coin of some sort that was as big as a Morgan silver dollar.
I opened up a hole and folded over a small plug and looked inside but nothing.
Used the Propointer on the plug, nothing there, stuck it in the bottom of the hole, and it did go off but it led me to the side.
I looked and saw a dirty large round object which was standing on edge straight up and down, and I was confused.
At first I thought it was a large knock out plug from some sort of electrical box, or maybe a token, although I never heard of one this big.
I pulled it out and looked and found a nice surprise.
A 1978 Eisenhower dollar!
Not an S mint mark this is a D, but even though it is not silver still a cool find because it is huge and the last of the large type circulated coins the mint has made because they went to the smaller dollar Sacajawea coins the next year.
I cleaned it with some vinegar in my tumbler, (I won't do that again because it screwed up the look...but it did clean it), and now it is going to be my lucky coin that I will carry next time the wife and I head to the casino...the only other place I remember seeing a large amount of these in the days when slots used to take coins.
The largest coin I have found so far, the first "silver dollar" I ever found...even though it has no silver in it, and another very cool find from my "golden" park.
I wonder what I will find on my next trip out there.
HH
