Still Giving It Up

[Old Longhair]

Went back over to my proving grounds park for another short hunt after work today. Only found a little over a dollar in clad and copper mems, but also turned up a '64 Rosie and a '45 King George.

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[Beale]

Congrats on the Silver! Nice old Canadian Cent also, Beale.

 

[Jack Beam]

Anytime silver is found it's a good hunt!! Congrats!!

 

[chuckciao]

Glad to see the old park is still giving up the silver. I am in a similar situation and often frustrated with few good finds but am working areas like hills and other out of the way spots trying to eke out some good finds. In fact, just got a 1907 Indian the other day.
HH
Chuck

 

[Mark in S.E. IA]

Congrat's on the silver.

 

[Digger]

Good to find silver. Hard to believe it was nearly 50 years ago when they stopped making silver coins! Back then, the neighbor lady would pay me 25 cents for mowing her yard. I'd jump on my bike with the gas can in one hand, head to the Sinclair station, fill up the can and have enough left for a Coke and a Snickers. With the price of silver today, that dime you found is worth just over $2.50. Sadly, that is what it takes to buy a Coke and Snickers bar today.............forget the gas! HH Randy

 

[Old Longhair]

Ahh yes....the good old days. I remember them fondly. Penny candy, nickel Coke machines, cheap gas, new cars that cost $2K (trucks were cheaper), watching new episodes of Wagon Train, etc....

As much as I like silver, by itself it's never quite the thrill of digging coins older than I am.

That park has been so hammered over the years, that I'm suprised every time I find anythng worth note at all. The original part of that park is on maps that I have going back to 1895, and that part is only about six or seven acres. It's been added on to, scraped and leveled, had ball fields come and go, had a basketball court installed, and hosts an Independence Day carnival each year to this day. It was where I found my first Barber quarter since getting back into detecting, yet has yielded nothing (to me) older than that quarter. No Indians, no war nickels, and actually not very much silver at all. It's gotten to the point where finding anything is becomming a challenge, which is why it's my "proving grounds". It's relatively close (only about 8mi from the house), is in a town that's so small that they don't even have a four-way stop intersection, and the only reason that there's a town there at all was because of a railroad track that isn't even there anymore.

Each new detector or new coil goes there first. It has become the yardstick by which I measure the worth of my investment in new stuff.

 

[EOS]

Great finds!

Silver is always nice to recover.
I also have a park that I have been over with several different machines
but still there is goodies coming up using new coils or machines.

Mike

 

[mapper65]

Nice finds!

We have a fairly large park nearby that we typically hunt every other week so it's "hunted out" as they say. 99.9% of the time we are finding fairly modern stuff. About three months ago I pulled up a 1964 dime. I thought to myself "boy, I squeaked that one by but hey, I'll take it". Silver is silver!