James N.D.
New member
Here's finds I found Last Weekend when I was out on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. So let's get to it shall we!
Friday Afternoon, Dale and I decided to go try our luck out a Country School Site that he has known about for awhile. He found it while Pheasant Hunting a few years ago and never got around to detecting it until now. We headed out and stopped by another Country School that we had previously detected and got many Older Coins from. I told Dale that we would try it for a short time since we had our Club Meeting on Friday Night and I wanted to get the most out of the few hours that we had to detect. We hunted for about a half hour or so and I told Dale that we best be moving on if we wanted to get any last minute Finds for the meeting. Dale found a 1917 Wheatie and an Unbroken Plate that he eyed laying in the weeds. I only came up with a Whatzit Item that has a Pat. Date of 1890, a 1940 Jefferson Nickel, and an Old Key Wind.
The Second Country School House, and the last stop of the day, turned out to be pretty good. As soon as I headed off detecting, about 20' from the Van I found a Wheatie. The School was long gone but some of the Playground Equipment was still present. I headed over towards the Slide and got a nice Nickel Reading that showed about 6" Deep. I dug it and out popped a Buffalo Nickel. I looked closer and it was a 1915-d, which was a better date which starts out at $16 in G-4. I covered the hole and about 3' away, get another Nickel Reading at about the same depth as the Buffalo Nickel. I dug it and out pops a 1940-s Jefferson Nickel. We worked the site pretty hard but there is still plenty more Keepers waiting for another round some other time. The School Yard was very large and we didn't do too much Patterning of the area so who knows what else is out there. At the end of the days hunt, I also had 5 Wheats, a Silver Rosie, an Airplane Pin which was the best find I think of the hunt, a 4-H Pin, and a Sterling Silver Bracelet. Dale found a Silver Rosie, a few Wheats, and a Badge Item that read 4th Of July Celebration, which must have been some novelty item to commemorate that holiday. We then headed out to Chaffee to the Club Meeting. I took 5 1st Places, a 2nd and a 3rd on some of my finds and Dale got 1st with his 4th Of July Celebration Item in the Relic Category.
Also, to the Club Members. I took a note down of the finds I got on Friday so I could take them out for the upcoming Month. Thought I would let you know so everything is kept fare on the next meetings finds.
Saturday, Dale and I decided to do a little Park Hunting at the Park where I got the Barber Dimes the weekend before. Dale wanted to try out the E-TRAC that Tim borrowed him to see if there was any difference between this machine and his Explorer XS in Depth and Separation. He used it for about 4 hours and only found 1 Wheatie along with some Deeper Clad. He then got his XS out and found a Merc 10' after he started hunting again. By the end of the hunt, Dale got 5 or 6 Silver, 1 being a Barber Dime and another an 1891 Seated Dime, a bunch of Wheats, 1 Indian Head, and a few other things. He wasn't impressed with the E-TRAC after I started kickin' his butt in the beginning but he did like how smooth it ran. I told Dale that there was more things on the E-TRAC than our XS's and that he just needed more time in using it. As for my finds, I found 6 Silver, a bunch of Wheats, 3 Indians, a Marksman Pin and an Aluminum Bracelet. I never found any Barber in the area where I had found 4 last time so I don't know if I was just that lucky in walking over the exact areas where they were or what but it sure is weird how that sometimes happens.
Sunday, I headed out by myself to a Park that Tim and I had worked about a month ago. We really pounded this Park to submission, but that didn't stop me from still finding many Keepers in the same spots we had worked. There is a Beach on this Park also which was another reason that I wanted to try it again to see if I could find a Gold Ring but that just didn't happen on this hunt. I did find 2 Wheats on the Beach though so there is potential out in the water also for Old Coins and Jewelery. Most all finds on Sunday were found doing a Crawl with the Pro Coil and a lot of these Targets were barely audible, almost like Iron Falses but I played with them enough to know that something was directly under the Coil before I dug them. At the end of the hunt from this Pounded Park, at least that is what I had thought on arrival, I had found 5 Silver Dimes, a bunch more Wheats, 3 Indians, a V-Nickel, 2 Buffalo Nickels, 6 Older Jefferson Nickels, a Good For Token, a Britney Spears Item, a Whatzit, a Junk Watch and a Musketball. Most all these Coins were 10"+ Deep. The Park still has life in it yet so another trip was made this Saturday and a few more Keepers were found but that's for the next Post. Onto the Totals!
I got a total of 12 Silver. They were 5 Mercury Dimes dated 1931-s,1935,(2)1944,1945-s, and 7 Roosevelt Dimes dated 1952-d,1953-d,1956-d,1957-d,(2)1959-d, and 1964-d. As for Nickels, I did a haul on them. I found 12 Nickels and they were 1 V-Nickel dated 1903, 3 Buffalo Nickels dated 1913,1915-d,1923, and 8 Jefferson Nickels dated (2)1940,1940-s,1946,1946-d,1949,1953, and 1957-d. There were 6 Indian Heads found and dated 1886,1901,(2)1903,(2)1905 and 3 Older Canadian Pennies which were dated 1924,1939 and 1957. Rest of Totals coming up in Part:2 with Pics. Hope you enjoy! Good Luck and HH.
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Friday Afternoon, Dale and I decided to go try our luck out a Country School Site that he has known about for awhile. He found it while Pheasant Hunting a few years ago and never got around to detecting it until now. We headed out and stopped by another Country School that we had previously detected and got many Older Coins from. I told Dale that we would try it for a short time since we had our Club Meeting on Friday Night and I wanted to get the most out of the few hours that we had to detect. We hunted for about a half hour or so and I told Dale that we best be moving on if we wanted to get any last minute Finds for the meeting. Dale found a 1917 Wheatie and an Unbroken Plate that he eyed laying in the weeds. I only came up with a Whatzit Item that has a Pat. Date of 1890, a 1940 Jefferson Nickel, and an Old Key Wind.
The Second Country School House, and the last stop of the day, turned out to be pretty good. As soon as I headed off detecting, about 20' from the Van I found a Wheatie. The School was long gone but some of the Playground Equipment was still present. I headed over towards the Slide and got a nice Nickel Reading that showed about 6" Deep. I dug it and out popped a Buffalo Nickel. I looked closer and it was a 1915-d, which was a better date which starts out at $16 in G-4. I covered the hole and about 3' away, get another Nickel Reading at about the same depth as the Buffalo Nickel. I dug it and out pops a 1940-s Jefferson Nickel. We worked the site pretty hard but there is still plenty more Keepers waiting for another round some other time. The School Yard was very large and we didn't do too much Patterning of the area so who knows what else is out there. At the end of the days hunt, I also had 5 Wheats, a Silver Rosie, an Airplane Pin which was the best find I think of the hunt, a 4-H Pin, and a Sterling Silver Bracelet. Dale found a Silver Rosie, a few Wheats, and a Badge Item that read 4th Of July Celebration, which must have been some novelty item to commemorate that holiday. We then headed out to Chaffee to the Club Meeting. I took 5 1st Places, a 2nd and a 3rd on some of my finds and Dale got 1st with his 4th Of July Celebration Item in the Relic Category.
Also, to the Club Members. I took a note down of the finds I got on Friday so I could take them out for the upcoming Month. Thought I would let you know so everything is kept fare on the next meetings finds.
Saturday, Dale and I decided to do a little Park Hunting at the Park where I got the Barber Dimes the weekend before. Dale wanted to try out the E-TRAC that Tim borrowed him to see if there was any difference between this machine and his Explorer XS in Depth and Separation. He used it for about 4 hours and only found 1 Wheatie along with some Deeper Clad. He then got his XS out and found a Merc 10' after he started hunting again. By the end of the hunt, Dale got 5 or 6 Silver, 1 being a Barber Dime and another an 1891 Seated Dime, a bunch of Wheats, 1 Indian Head, and a few other things. He wasn't impressed with the E-TRAC after I started kickin' his butt in the beginning but he did like how smooth it ran. I told Dale that there was more things on the E-TRAC than our XS's and that he just needed more time in using it. As for my finds, I found 6 Silver, a bunch of Wheats, 3 Indians, a Marksman Pin and an Aluminum Bracelet. I never found any Barber in the area where I had found 4 last time so I don't know if I was just that lucky in walking over the exact areas where they were or what but it sure is weird how that sometimes happens.
Sunday, I headed out by myself to a Park that Tim and I had worked about a month ago. We really pounded this Park to submission, but that didn't stop me from still finding many Keepers in the same spots we had worked. There is a Beach on this Park also which was another reason that I wanted to try it again to see if I could find a Gold Ring but that just didn't happen on this hunt. I did find 2 Wheats on the Beach though so there is potential out in the water also for Old Coins and Jewelery. Most all finds on Sunday were found doing a Crawl with the Pro Coil and a lot of these Targets were barely audible, almost like Iron Falses but I played with them enough to know that something was directly under the Coil before I dug them. At the end of the hunt from this Pounded Park, at least that is what I had thought on arrival, I had found 5 Silver Dimes, a bunch more Wheats, 3 Indians, a V-Nickel, 2 Buffalo Nickels, 6 Older Jefferson Nickels, a Good For Token, a Britney Spears Item, a Whatzit, a Junk Watch and a Musketball. Most all these Coins were 10"+ Deep. The Park still has life in it yet so another trip was made this Saturday and a few more Keepers were found but that's for the next Post. Onto the Totals!
I got a total of 12 Silver. They were 5 Mercury Dimes dated 1931-s,1935,(2)1944,1945-s, and 7 Roosevelt Dimes dated 1952-d,1953-d,1956-d,1957-d,(2)1959-d, and 1964-d. As for Nickels, I did a haul on them. I found 12 Nickels and they were 1 V-Nickel dated 1903, 3 Buffalo Nickels dated 1913,1915-d,1923, and 8 Jefferson Nickels dated (2)1940,1940-s,1946,1946-d,1949,1953, and 1957-d. There were 6 Indian Heads found and dated 1886,1901,(2)1903,(2)1905 and 3 Older Canadian Pennies which were dated 1924,1939 and 1957. Rest of Totals coming up in Part:2 with Pics. Hope you enjoy! Good Luck and HH.
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), an Aluminum Button, a Musket Ball, a Key Wind, and a 4-H Pin that has First on Top and N. Dak. on the bottom. It also has a Pat'd Date of 12-23-21 on the back of it. Well, that's the last of the haul and I hope you have enjoyed the Story and Finds that I made on this outing. Good Luck and HH to you all and thanks for looking.
Don't forget to save a couple for me when I make it out your way one of these days. Good luck on your next outing. HH.
12 SILVER 12 NICKLES AND ALL THE GOOD STUFF