So, last Friday I took my lunch break over at a park down the road. It dates back to the early 1900's and I've heard that some silver has come out of it. Most of my forays to it previously I've just found clad and junk. I ended up detecting an open area going up a hill to one side of the park. This is the section where the park adjoins with residential housing. There is also a long row of fairly old trees following this side.
I was cherry picking a bit, only digging decent signals since I didn't have a lot of time. I was finding mostly clad, and I found 1 wheat penny.
I also found 2 aluminum license registration tags, 1954 and 1955. For some reason I get a kick out of finding them. I was pushing my time limit so I headed back to work.
When I got back, I wanted to show a friend what I found, so I ended up going into the bathroom to grab the change out of my pocket. I had a bit of dirt collected in there as well, so I sort of pulled my hand out near the garbage can. Wouldn't you know it, I hear kerplunk, kerplunk, and some of my finds had fallen into the trash. I took a look at what was left in my hand, saw the wheat penny was still there and said ahh well, it's just clad.
I got back to my desk and noticed one of my registration tags wasn't there, as well as 1 of the 2 quarters I had found. I thought, ok, maybe just look at the top of the trash. I head back in a take a look ad see a penny and the quarter. No tag!!!
I head back to my desk and begin working, and like 15 minutes later it's bugging the heck out of me knowing there is something still in there.
I head back in one more time, grab the plastic liner, and dump what's in there in the can in my office. (all the while trying to be inconspicuous) After 5 minutes of careful rummaging, I uncover another 2 pennies. One is a memorial, the other is fairly green, and at first I thought I saw some wheat stalks on the back. I'm thinking sheesh I almost threw out a wheatie. I squinted a little bit more at the back because the wheat stalks were looking pretty fat. I then realized that it looked more like a wreath, and that in fact I had thrown out an Indian Head!!!!! I couldn't make the date out until I got home. It turned out to be a pretty nice 1882. It was a pretty entertaining day!!
So ends my story on how NOT to find two (of the same) Indian Head pennies in one day!
Enjoy the pics.
I was cherry picking a bit, only digging decent signals since I didn't have a lot of time. I was finding mostly clad, and I found 1 wheat penny.
I also found 2 aluminum license registration tags, 1954 and 1955. For some reason I get a kick out of finding them. I was pushing my time limit so I headed back to work.
When I got back, I wanted to show a friend what I found, so I ended up going into the bathroom to grab the change out of my pocket. I had a bit of dirt collected in there as well, so I sort of pulled my hand out near the garbage can. Wouldn't you know it, I hear kerplunk, kerplunk, and some of my finds had fallen into the trash. I took a look at what was left in my hand, saw the wheat penny was still there and said ahh well, it's just clad.
I got back to my desk and noticed one of my registration tags wasn't there, as well as 1 of the 2 quarters I had found. I thought, ok, maybe just look at the top of the trash. I head back in a take a look ad see a penny and the quarter. No tag!!!
I head back to my desk and begin working, and like 15 minutes later it's bugging the heck out of me knowing there is something still in there.
I head back in one more time, grab the plastic liner, and dump what's in there in the can in my office. (all the while trying to be inconspicuous) After 5 minutes of careful rummaging, I uncover another 2 pennies. One is a memorial, the other is fairly green, and at first I thought I saw some wheat stalks on the back. I'm thinking sheesh I almost threw out a wheatie. I squinted a little bit more at the back because the wheat stalks were looking pretty fat. I then realized that it looked more like a wreath, and that in fact I had thrown out an Indian Head!!!!! I couldn't make the date out until I got home. It turned out to be a pretty nice 1882. It was a pretty entertaining day!!
So ends my story on how NOT to find two (of the same) Indian Head pennies in one day!
Enjoy the pics.
