Jesse W. McComas
New member
After all the ceremonies were completed yesterday afternoon at Ritter Park concerning the new play ground construction, I decided to hit that area again this morning before it got to hot. Well by the time I left home, it was already Hot, but decided to go anyway. I was there for about 3 hours trying to save as much as I could. The ground was hard as a rock on the flat surface where the bulldozer's had graded and packed the dirt down. I could not dig with my hand digger, so I moved over to the dirt pile to try mu luck. I started finding clad and cent coins everywhere, Then I got a high pitched signal that registered 00-29, high up on the pile. I scraped the dirt loose and out rolled a 1908 Barber Half Dollar, Chicken Dance # 1. Continued searching around to the other side of the pile and got a 02-26. Thought, What the heck, and dug loose a bunch of dirt, and out rolled a large silver coin. This coin rolled all the way down the pile of dirt and landed at my feet. This was a well worn 1888 Morgan Silver Dollar, Chicken dance # 2. After that point the coin finds started to slow down and I decided to take a break under a tree as I was starting not to feel very well from the heat. As I was walking up the bank to the tree I saw a large copper coin or flat button sitting up on a dirt clod. It was a Palmolive Soap Token in real good condition, Chicken Dance # 3. The last thing I found before heading home was a small knife. The picture has the Standing Liberty Quarter that I found the other day at this site for size. All in All, I had a great morning of detecting. HH...Jesse.
