CZconnoisseur and I have been waiting for rain...but it's not been co-operating.
So, we went on a couple of exploratory hunts in a new park to see if the coins were biting...
The park was chosen because it was relatively old, and it has water sprinklers...(Honestly, it was mostly because of the water sprinklers.)
Alas, the ground was barely dig-able...and by the time we were done, our arms, hands, and wrists were quite sore from the work.
The sprinklers had done their best, but it's just been too dry/hot/windy...unseasonably so. Unfortunately that affects the detecting depth, as well as the digging.
CZc scored a couple of rings (as well as coins) with the Deus. One was a really nice sterling toe ring.
I watched him get all excited over what looked like a heavy gold ring, but as he walked over and cleaned off the dirt, you could see the gold plating come off in places. Darn.
Silver didn't elude us, but we both had to fight hard for it. CZc scored a Rosy on the first half of the trip, and I scored a Merc on the other.
We were plagued in the new spot by the typical trash...bic lighter wheels, folded beaver tails, smashed foil. But we typically have to spend several trips, and a lot of time to remove that sub-surface garbage.
It's important to clean it out though, as it's surprising how frequently that junk masks a deep goodie!
We got down to what I feel was generally about the Great Depression era depth, and I was rewarded with some nice date wheat pennies:1909, 1917D, 1919S, 1928, 1932D, 2-1937D's, 1946D, 1955D.
Two moderately old nickels; 1940, 1958. And, of course, the 1939D mercury dime.
The Merc was part of a coin spill with the 1940 nickel and a 1937 penny. Old coin spills are fun...
Oh, and almost forgot...a crusty Colorado one fifth-cent series tax token in pretty bad shape.
Now for the Bizarre part;
Found a few other interesting odds and ends, then just before leaving, I started hitting sub-surface signals inches apart...all over the place. "How Bizarre", I thought.
Then I started digging them up. I quit when I had pulled 20 unfired .32 auto rounds from a 6x6 ft area...all from about 1-1/2" down!
I've been seriously detecting since 1973, and I've never dug an 'ammo spill' in a park before. Pretty sure it wasn't on my 'bucket list' either, but now I've done it, anyway!
When the weather is kinder to us, we'll (hopefully) be posting some older finds again, but it's always fun to get out and hunt with CZc..regardless of the finds.
HH,
mike
So, we went on a couple of exploratory hunts in a new park to see if the coins were biting...
The park was chosen because it was relatively old, and it has water sprinklers...(Honestly, it was mostly because of the water sprinklers.)
Alas, the ground was barely dig-able...and by the time we were done, our arms, hands, and wrists were quite sore from the work.
The sprinklers had done their best, but it's just been too dry/hot/windy...unseasonably so. Unfortunately that affects the detecting depth, as well as the digging.
CZc scored a couple of rings (as well as coins) with the Deus. One was a really nice sterling toe ring.
I watched him get all excited over what looked like a heavy gold ring, but as he walked over and cleaned off the dirt, you could see the gold plating come off in places. Darn.
Silver didn't elude us, but we both had to fight hard for it. CZc scored a Rosy on the first half of the trip, and I scored a Merc on the other.
We were plagued in the new spot by the typical trash...bic lighter wheels, folded beaver tails, smashed foil. But we typically have to spend several trips, and a lot of time to remove that sub-surface garbage.
It's important to clean it out though, as it's surprising how frequently that junk masks a deep goodie!
We got down to what I feel was generally about the Great Depression era depth, and I was rewarded with some nice date wheat pennies:1909, 1917D, 1919S, 1928, 1932D, 2-1937D's, 1946D, 1955D.
Two moderately old nickels; 1940, 1958. And, of course, the 1939D mercury dime.
The Merc was part of a coin spill with the 1940 nickel and a 1937 penny. Old coin spills are fun...
Oh, and almost forgot...a crusty Colorado one fifth-cent series tax token in pretty bad shape.
Now for the Bizarre part;
Found a few other interesting odds and ends, then just before leaving, I started hitting sub-surface signals inches apart...all over the place. "How Bizarre", I thought.
Then I started digging them up. I quit when I had pulled 20 unfired .32 auto rounds from a 6x6 ft area...all from about 1-1/2" down!
I've been seriously detecting since 1973, and I've never dug an 'ammo spill' in a park before. Pretty sure it wasn't on my 'bucket list' either, but now I've done it, anyway!
When the weather is kinder to us, we'll (hopefully) be posting some older finds again, but it's always fun to get out and hunt with CZc..regardless of the finds.
HH,
mike
