Hello My Friends!
Yesterday, Mike(ratman) and I decided to take a trip to one of our Barrio parks to test our luck at being able to find some older coinage/relics. The park was bone dry...
It felt like I was walking on the moon....many areas were completely void of any grass, and the grass that was there was about the color of dry hay. This park is notorious for both underground and above ground EMI, along with older buried iron sprinkler systems, and over 100 years of trash. Mike and I expected these conditions, but the history of the park and our handfuls of recovered treasures keeps us coming back. Within the first hour, Mike was already on the board with a nice '02 Injun and some wheats. I had yet to find any silver. While picking through the trash, I finally heard a signal that sounded a little higher in tone than a wheatie. At around 6", I saw silver, in the form of a nice, old pendant. Very cool and unique! I kept listening carefully for those deeper zinc'y signals; I've dug many indians and early wheaties at this park with that classic zinc penny tone. My first couple of zinc signals were nice and deep....it's crazy the amount of effort I had to put into digging a penny out of the ground, but my excitement to see what the target was in the granite hard ground kept me digging deeper!! 
Well, both of those signals turned out to be early wheaties, a '17S and an '18S. My next target wasn't as deep, and had the tone of a later dated wheatie. I was surprised to see a silver coin laying vertical at the bottom of my 7" plug. It was a barber dime, a 1905 S, in extra fine condition(all the letters of "liberty" are clearly visible). I was happy if I didn't get another keeper the rest of the day. 
After about another hour with little to show, my finds would soon multiply quickly. After pulling a few more wheats, I finally got my second silver coin, a Mercury dime at around 8" in thick trash. The signal was a nice, faint, high-tone warble, which could be easily passed over. I know I, along with all my buddies, have missed this coin many times before, but very satisfied to have found it this time. After digging the merc, I was thinking I would now like to find a Rosie for a dime trifecta. 
I moved across the field to an area where I found some rosies and wheats a couple of years ago. The area was all dirt, and it felt like I was walking on asphalt. I was tiring and my hands/neck were aching from all the day's digging/swinging. I said to myself I would just dig a few deep signals in this dirt before I was going to call it a day. My first signal was a 7-8" target, and it was not a single coin signal....I kept hearing multiple high tones in an area the size of my Pro coil. I figured I would just start digging on the strongest signal first....once I pried my way down to around 6", my probe started to sound off....I proceeded to remove 4 wheats from the hole. Darn!! Where's my Rosie!! After pushing the dirt back into the hole, there was another signal just off to the side of my previous hole....I just trenched my way from the previous hole, and at about the same depth, I saw silver...Yes!! It was a Rosie! I was going to just walk away, and meet back up with Mike to say goodbye and call it a day, but I figured I better sweep over my hole one more time just to be sure I didn't leave anything...I was hearing a low conductor, and another high conductor, but at only 5". On my last dig of the day, I dug down one more time, muscles shaking, and removed another Rosie and the silver-plated turquoise jewelry piece. It's hard to leave a productive spot, but that's what I did.
So, all in all, it was a very satisfying return hunt after a two-year hiatus in the Barrio. After meeting back up with Mike and showing each other our finds, I hobbled back to my car and drove off thinking even though the ground conditions were so poor there, I was already planning my return trip. Yep, I'll be back, and I know exactly where I'm going to start next time!
Thanks for looking!
Keep The Passion High!!
HH,
CAPTN SE
Dan
PS - The 2 cent coin is South African.
Yesterday, Mike(ratman) and I decided to take a trip to one of our Barrio parks to test our luck at being able to find some older coinage/relics. The park was bone dry...
It felt like I was walking on the moon....many areas were completely void of any grass, and the grass that was there was about the color of dry hay. This park is notorious for both underground and above ground EMI, along with older buried iron sprinkler systems, and over 100 years of trash. Mike and I expected these conditions, but the history of the park and our handfuls of recovered treasures keeps us coming back. Within the first hour, Mike was already on the board with a nice '02 Injun and some wheats. I had yet to find any silver. While picking through the trash, I finally heard a signal that sounded a little higher in tone than a wheatie. At around 6", I saw silver, in the form of a nice, old pendant. Very cool and unique! I kept listening carefully for those deeper zinc'y signals; I've dug many indians and early wheaties at this park with that classic zinc penny tone. My first couple of zinc signals were nice and deep....it's crazy the amount of effort I had to put into digging a penny out of the ground, but my excitement to see what the target was in the granite hard ground kept me digging deeper!! Well, both of those signals turned out to be early wheaties, a '17S and an '18S. My next target wasn't as deep, and had the tone of a later dated wheatie. I was surprised to see a silver coin laying vertical at the bottom of my 7" plug. It was a barber dime, a 1905 S, in extra fine condition(all the letters of "liberty" are clearly visible). I was happy if I didn't get another keeper the rest of the day. After about another hour with little to show, my finds would soon multiply quickly. After pulling a few more wheats, I finally got my second silver coin, a Mercury dime at around 8" in thick trash. The signal was a nice, faint, high-tone warble, which could be easily passed over. I know I, along with all my buddies, have missed this coin many times before, but very satisfied to have found it this time. After digging the merc, I was thinking I would now like to find a Rosie for a dime trifecta. I moved across the field to an area where I found some rosies and wheats a couple of years ago. The area was all dirt, and it felt like I was walking on asphalt. I was tiring and my hands/neck were aching from all the day's digging/swinging. I said to myself I would just dig a few deep signals in this dirt before I was going to call it a day. My first signal was a 7-8" target, and it was not a single coin signal....I kept hearing multiple high tones in an area the size of my Pro coil. I figured I would just start digging on the strongest signal first....once I pried my way down to around 6", my probe started to sound off....I proceeded to remove 4 wheats from the hole. Darn!! Where's my Rosie!! After pushing the dirt back into the hole, there was another signal just off to the side of my previous hole....I just trenched my way from the previous hole, and at about the same depth, I saw silver...Yes!! It was a Rosie! I was going to just walk away, and meet back up with Mike to say goodbye and call it a day, but I figured I better sweep over my hole one more time just to be sure I didn't leave anything...I was hearing a low conductor, and another high conductor, but at only 5". On my last dig of the day, I dug down one more time, muscles shaking, and removed another Rosie and the silver-plated turquoise jewelry piece. It's hard to leave a productive spot, but that's what I did.So, all in all, it was a very satisfying return hunt after a two-year hiatus in the Barrio. After meeting back up with Mike and showing each other our finds, I hobbled back to my car and drove off thinking even though the ground conditions were so poor there, I was already planning my return trip. Yep, I'll be back, and I know exactly where I'm going to start next time!
Thanks for looking!
Keep The Passion High!!
HH,
CAPTN SE
Dan
PS - The 2 cent coin is South African.
Congratulations on all your finds.
What an awesome hunt. Congratulations on all those beautiful coins. Thanks for sharing the details and the pictures. Most inspiring!
WTG Dan, super hunt&super story. Keep it up.
Great Barber and I love the old jewelery!