Mother...tell your children

[Ism]

Not to do what I have done,
Pour your coins into one great big pile
and wonder where the Injun came from.

Yeah that's right, I have been hunting sports fields lately (jewelry hunting at 18KHz for shallow targets). After rinsing the coins I just dump them on a paper towel to dry....Heck its all clad you know what I mean?
Yesterday I looked through a pile of accumulated rinsed coins and saw the 1895 Indian. (insert the emoticon beating its head against the wall here).
Bittersweet find if you know what I mean. Some of these fields cover a lot of acres and do have the potential for old coins, but now I have no idea where to look in the field...let alone which field to look in.
I guess I'll not do that again....

 

[beepsilver]

Congrats on the IHP find Ism!

In years past, I've saved all my clad in a pile for end-of-year cleanup. It was a pain to sort out wheaties from this bunch....took hours to rinse, identify and sort. Now after every single hunt, I pull the wheaties (and any other keeper) from the lot, preserve them and toss everything else into the end-of-year box. That saves me tons of time, when, at year's end I dump everything in the driveway, hose it all off, let it all dry then take it all to the bank for a cash exchange.

 

[Sleepyjim]

IH surprises are always nice!


Jim