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GOOD Door Knocking day..5 silver..4 indians..1870 Spain Coin

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Goes4ever

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Tuesday I had the day off and called my buddy Mr. Stuff (Dave) to see if he could get off work as well. He did so we met up and went door knocking. First place we hit was a early 1900's house that had a double lot, there I got several wheats, 2 mercs, 1943 Washington quarter and the war nickel.

We spied another old house and got permission, all I got there was clad, 2 wheats, and the good for 25 cent token.

The lady across the street was in her yard with her dog, so we walked over and chatted with her, got permission there, and I got a few wheats, one wheat had the 1906 indian in the same hole, and another 1904 indian showed up, and also got the 1937 Washington there too.

The house next too her looked pretty old so we asked permission there and got it, nothing good there but the religious medal, couple wheats, and clad.

We found another huge old house and the owner said it had been hunted before, but he allowed us to search anyhow. I found the token that said "good for one package of mints" got the 1870 large copper from Spain and a 1890 indian in one hole under his clothes line, couple wheats, Key and lastly I dug the 1909 indian in the backyard...(no "S")

all in all it was a good day, we hunted almost 9 hours...only one house all day said "no" ended up with 5 silver, 4 indians, 2 tokens, 20 wheats, the 1870 copper from Spain and a pile of clad.

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Well done as usuall, do you spend much time with iffy signals that dont repeat from most angles or do you just move quick and try to cover as much ground as possible picking up the good solid hits?
 
samuel_schumaker said:
Well done as usuall, do you spend much time with iffy signals that dont repeat from most angles or do you just move quick and try to cover as much ground as possible picking up the good solid hits?
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it is different depending on my mood, and what i am finding. If a yard starts giving up some oldies, I start digging a lot more iffy stuff
 
Nice job. Excellent mix of coins - congrats!
 
Great hunt Terry - congrats !
 
congratulations on all the silver and Indians, the tokens are nice to your Indian count for the year must be through the ceiling. :thumbup:
 
Nice finds Terry! I've found 2 of those "Mint" tokens. It was the first token I'd ever found. Thanks for the pictures.

NebTrac
 
Great job. I live near a few very old towns here in NJ and would like to go "door to door". What exactly do you ask when you approach a home owner? Do you have them sign anything? Do you offer to split the value of the finds with the home owner?
 
liberty25 said:
Great job. I live near a few very old towns here in NJ and would like to go "door to door". What exactly do you ask when you approach a home owner? Do you have them sign anything? Do you offer to split the value of the finds with the home owner?
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asking someone to sign something will surely get a door shut in your face, I never discuss splits, I ask to detect and after they say yes, I simply thank them and go to work.

When I knock on the door, I simply say this EXACT line...EVERYTIME. "Hi, I have a hobby of metal detecting and enjoy searching around yards of old homes, and I wonder if you would mind if I ran my detector across your yard?"

that is it.....simple and too the point. Homeowners never ask for a split, if you mention splitting finds, they will ASSUME your gonna find something valuable. And I am guessing I will find a few wheats, clad, and maybe a silver coin or two, hardly worth a split.
 
Goes4ever said:
liberty25 said:
Great job. I live near a few very old towns here in NJ and would like to go "door to door". What exactly do you ask when you approach a home owner? Do you have them sign anything? Do you offer to split the value of the finds with the home owner?
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asking someone to sign something will surely get a door shut in your face, I never discuss splits, I ask to detect and after they say yes, I simply thank them and go to work.

When I knock on the door, I simply say this EXACT line...EVERYTIME. "Hi, I have a hobby of metal detecting and enjoy searching around yards of old homes, and I wonder if you would mind if I ran my detector across your yard?"

that is it.....simple and too the point. Homeowners never ask for a split, if you mention splitting finds, they will ASSUME your gonna find something valuable. And I am guessing I will find a few wheats, clad, and maybe a silver coin or two, hardly worth a split.
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Thanks, I appreciate it. Exactly what I need to know.
 
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