Last trip to Charlotte Park - Gold!! (sort of)

[Tenspeed]

Went back to the Charlotte site I have been hunting for the last two weeks for a final visit. I have gone over this small area (2 acres +/-) as well as I can and think I have found most everything.

I found no old coins today, even though I went back over the areas I have already hunted again. I made sure I swung my coil over every possible spot where dirt was not added and even re-hunted some of the areas where my best finds came from.

I did find one gold (plated I believe) pocket watch body in one area I had hunted over twice before near where I found the 1929 SLQ. It was bouncing around 12-47/12-48 and just sounded too good and repeatable to pass by.

I also found an Excelsior "Boy Scout" shoe token (Type 1.2, http://www.sageventure.com/coins/misc.html) in an area near where I had found two of the Mercury dimes.

The last picture is everything I found today (not including two very old, first generation aluminum Budweiser cans) including what appears to be a copper lid with circle and star-burst type pattern embossed in it and a lens from something.

I also took the homeless man I met on Friday an older, nearly new, Browning down coat that has been hanging in my closet for 20 years and is very warm so he will not be as cold tonight and he was very appreciative. He didn't want to go with the other folks to bum off tailgaters at the Panthers game, so I bought him a Wendy's double combo again for lunch so he would not have to be hungry.

Happy hunting!!

 

[LabradorBob]

Nice job on the finds! Love the token.

LabradorBob

 

[NebTrac]

Congratulations on the finds, more importantly thank you for your kindness to your fellow man! I appreciated the pictures and the stories!

NebTrac

 

[Hotcz70]

I also took the homeless man I met on Friday an older, nearly new, Browning down coat that has been hanging in my closet for 20 years and is very warm so he will not be as cold tonight and he was very appreciative. He didn't want to go with the other folks to bum off tailgaters at the Panthers game, so I bought him a Wendy's double combo again for lunch so he would not have to be hungry.

Brother what you "found" was worth so much more than a pouch full of coins

What an excellent post...and it's fellers' like you whom I consider a friend here on findmall even though we have never met...and probly never will.

Nice find...all the way around

 

[OhioCoinHunter]

Congrats on striking GOLD!!! Yipeeeeee!!!

 

[Tenspeed]

I also took the homeless man I met on Friday an older, nearly new, Browning down coat that has been hanging in my closet for 20 years and is very warm so he will not be as cold tonight and he was very appreciative. He didn't want to go with the other folks to bum off tailgaters at the Panthers game, so I bought him a Wendy's double combo again for lunch so he would not have to be hungry.

Brother what you "found" was worth so much more than a pouch full of coins

What an excellent post...and it's fellers' like you whom I consider a friend here on findmall even though we have never met...and probly never will.

Nice find...all the way around

Thanks Bryce,

In a way I feel like I do know you from reading all of your posts. One of these days I would love to learn what you are hearing when you find silver in some of these hunted out parks, but as you say, the odds of that happening are like me winning the lottery (slim and none). You talk of the warble and chirp. Almost every time I try to push a signal to turn it into something I find trash (except for the watch body I just found). I am discovering that you sometimes have to "take a chance" on that iffy signal and you might just be rewarded.

Andy Sabisch started me on this addictive path and was my teacher. He always spoke highly of you. He taught me well, as he hunted cicles around me, and is responsilbe for my current skillset. Other than good initial training to keep you from getting too frustrated and throwing your detector in the corner I have learned that nothing makes you better at this than time in the saddle.

Thanks for the nice comments. Coming from you they mean a lot.

Hardy

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Great story - Great finds !


HH --- Mark