My buddy and I headed out early this morning to check out 3 new spots in less then desirable areas I had located using Google maps. As it turned out no one gave us a second look and even had a nice conversation with a lady that had spotted us hunting and came out of her house to chat. She also detects and I could tell from our conversation that she actually does and fairly regularly.
Anyway, all three of the parks in their own way are worth a further swinging over.
The first park we stopped at yielded me a wheat cent on my first dug target. My buddy also hit 2 fairly early on. After a hour and half or so and numerous pieces of clad and cents, I finally got my coil over a silver dime. A 1920 Merc. Shortly thereafter we headed off to check on the second location.
Pretty quickly we both determined that at some point much of the ground had been moved around in some fashion. Clad and bottle were from the surface down to 6-7". I did recover 1 wheat cent from about 2" on this spot, a 1917, so it merits another shot or two. Lots of clad and cents to be had there. Swinging along the grass strip beside the sidewalk on our way back to the car my buddy nailed a nice hefty silver mens ring. So, that spot yielded a silver item, too.
The 3rd spot we hit was much like the second. Deep clad and cents and plenty of it. It was obvious these last two spots hadn't had a coil over them in a while. Right at the end of the hunt on this spot I got a nice quarter reading and much to my surprise, from about 4" I popped a hefty 925 silver ring. It weighed in at a nice 14.8 grams.
Although only one silver coin came to light, each spot it their own way were fruitful. I ended up with 34 quarters, dimes and nickels combined and another 18 Memorial cents. The 2 wheats I got were 17 and 44. We both had on the 5" coil. HH jim tn
Anyway, all three of the parks in their own way are worth a further swinging over.
The first park we stopped at yielded me a wheat cent on my first dug target. My buddy also hit 2 fairly early on. After a hour and half or so and numerous pieces of clad and cents, I finally got my coil over a silver dime. A 1920 Merc. Shortly thereafter we headed off to check on the second location.
Pretty quickly we both determined that at some point much of the ground had been moved around in some fashion. Clad and bottle were from the surface down to 6-7". I did recover 1 wheat cent from about 2" on this spot, a 1917, so it merits another shot or two. Lots of clad and cents to be had there. Swinging along the grass strip beside the sidewalk on our way back to the car my buddy nailed a nice hefty silver mens ring. So, that spot yielded a silver item, too.
The 3rd spot we hit was much like the second. Deep clad and cents and plenty of it. It was obvious these last two spots hadn't had a coil over them in a while. Right at the end of the hunt on this spot I got a nice quarter reading and much to my surprise, from about 4" I popped a hefty 925 silver ring. It weighed in at a nice 14.8 grams.
Although only one silver coin came to light, each spot it their own way were fruitful. I ended up with 34 quarters, dimes and nickels combined and another 18 Memorial cents. The 2 wheats I got were 17 and 44. We both had on the 5" coil. HH jim tn
