Had a 2 1/2 hour hunting window this morning so headed off to the Military housing site. Opted to work a area that the houses were not laid out in rows like so many were on the site do to the area not being square. In order for the Navy to cram as many houses into this corner as possible they were built at various different angles. Consequently it is now getting tougher to determine where the houses were exactly so as to be able to search the yard and a half dirt strip between each house, the streets or parking lots. These 4 1/2 foot strips are where the coins are and were.
About an hour into the hunt all I had in my pouch coin wise were a few Memorials and a couple of clad dimes and 1 wheat cent. With my hunting time dwindling I took a brief pause to look around and see if I could spot some plusher looking grass. The houses sat on a bed of gravel and the grass over it is usually not as thick as the grass on the dirt strips. I spotted a slight rise that seemed to sport some thicker looking grass so swung my way over to it.....and promptly dug a 43 Mercury and 2 wheat cents. As I was nearing the end of the hunt I got a shallow mid 70's hit along the edge of the strip I was searching. Dug about a 4" deep plug and when I scanned it got a screamer. Moved a little dirt around with the pin pointer and spotted a silver coin, but it had kind of a strange look to it. As it turned out it is a Republica De Panama coin with the image of Balboa on the front. It is 90 % silver, but I can't determine the date. I can see 19?1. It looks like someone tried to drill a hole in the date area and the bit slipped. It is also ever so slightly bent with a couple of rough places on the edge like someone put it into a vise. But, that is just a guess on my part. Anyway, kind of a neat coin. I have found numerous foreign coins on this spot and several being silver. F 75 DST 90 with the 5" coil. It appears I got 3rd and 4th pictures out of sequence. HH jim tn
About an hour into the hunt all I had in my pouch coin wise were a few Memorials and a couple of clad dimes and 1 wheat cent. With my hunting time dwindling I took a brief pause to look around and see if I could spot some plusher looking grass. The houses sat on a bed of gravel and the grass over it is usually not as thick as the grass on the dirt strips. I spotted a slight rise that seemed to sport some thicker looking grass so swung my way over to it.....and promptly dug a 43 Mercury and 2 wheat cents. As I was nearing the end of the hunt I got a shallow mid 70's hit along the edge of the strip I was searching. Dug about a 4" deep plug and when I scanned it got a screamer. Moved a little dirt around with the pin pointer and spotted a silver coin, but it had kind of a strange look to it. As it turned out it is a Republica De Panama coin with the image of Balboa on the front. It is 90 % silver, but I can't determine the date. I can see 19?1. It looks like someone tried to drill a hole in the date area and the bit slipped. It is also ever so slightly bent with a couple of rough places on the edge like someone put it into a vise. But, that is just a guess on my part. Anyway, kind of a neat coin. I have found numerous foreign coins on this spot and several being silver. F 75 DST 90 with the 5" coil. It appears I got 3rd and 4th pictures out of sequence. HH jim tn
Not complaining, just a fact. The gold coin must be a Roman coin? Because I thought I saw a Roman Centurion at a tot lot and I stopped and swung the F70 and low and be hold this coin came up. It must be a real Roman coin because it came from a tot lot? Right? 
innochio Thanks again Jim. My coins have a 1961 mint mark on them. Great hunt and keep up the fine hunting......Z