Although through today it has been a little nippy with some nasty, gusty wind, I have ventured out and worked one old site every hunt and day this week.
Today I didn't get a silver coin, but did a lot of digging. In total, I dug 68 coins, which, for this spot is about 3 times more then norm. I ran into a slightly raised area and started popping a few clad coins and Memorials. Quite a bit of iron was showing up, but the 5 x 10 DD was working around it pretty good. I had hit one spot that I thought was probably iron as it was big. I hunted around the mound a bit and something kept nagging at me about that spot so I went back to it and thought I had a target isolated and dug. Low and behold, 5 or 6 coins came up in the first clod of dirt. About 20 minuted later mainly working with the pin pointer I had recovered around 35-40 coins. I lost track after 20 or so. Nothing deeper then 4" and the spot was about 15" x 6". There was several dimes and a few cents, but the spill contained a good many quarters and nickels.
Up to that point I had only managed 2 wheat cents, so I headed off in another direction and a few minutes later got a lock on 30 reading and it was a near screamer. Dug down about 2" and recovered a nickel size coin, but it had a little different look to it so rubbed some of the crud off of it and was pretty sure I was seeing a V. I promptly dropped in my water bottle and when I got home worked on it a little and it turned out to be a 1910 V nickel. A little while later I got a well worn wheat cent so started working the area and popped the 1900 I H cent. Got 1 more wheat after that and called it a wrap. The 4 wheats I recovered today were 19, 20, 40 and 45.
Mon.-Wed hunts yielded me the 4 silver dimes, the 43P war nickel and the n/d toasted Buffalo along with the 2 locks and 2 junk rings. This is the site that is not kind to coins, older or modern. One area, however, along a fence appears to have a little different ground and that area yielded me the decent condition 1910 Barber dime. The 2 Merc's are 1917d and 1923. The Rosie is a s mint and I think it is a 49. It came out of a low spot that holds water longer. I have been using the 5 x 10 DD coil all week. HH jim tn
Today I didn't get a silver coin, but did a lot of digging. In total, I dug 68 coins, which, for this spot is about 3 times more then norm. I ran into a slightly raised area and started popping a few clad coins and Memorials. Quite a bit of iron was showing up, but the 5 x 10 DD was working around it pretty good. I had hit one spot that I thought was probably iron as it was big. I hunted around the mound a bit and something kept nagging at me about that spot so I went back to it and thought I had a target isolated and dug. Low and behold, 5 or 6 coins came up in the first clod of dirt. About 20 minuted later mainly working with the pin pointer I had recovered around 35-40 coins. I lost track after 20 or so. Nothing deeper then 4" and the spot was about 15" x 6". There was several dimes and a few cents, but the spill contained a good many quarters and nickels.
Up to that point I had only managed 2 wheat cents, so I headed off in another direction and a few minutes later got a lock on 30 reading and it was a near screamer. Dug down about 2" and recovered a nickel size coin, but it had a little different look to it so rubbed some of the crud off of it and was pretty sure I was seeing a V. I promptly dropped in my water bottle and when I got home worked on it a little and it turned out to be a 1910 V nickel. A little while later I got a well worn wheat cent so started working the area and popped the 1900 I H cent. Got 1 more wheat after that and called it a wrap. The 4 wheats I recovered today were 19, 20, 40 and 45.
Mon.-Wed hunts yielded me the 4 silver dimes, the 43P war nickel and the n/d toasted Buffalo along with the 2 locks and 2 junk rings. This is the site that is not kind to coins, older or modern. One area, however, along a fence appears to have a little different ground and that area yielded me the decent condition 1910 Barber dime. The 2 Merc's are 1917d and 1923. The Rosie is a s mint and I think it is a 49. It came out of a low spot that holds water longer. I have been using the 5 x 10 DD coil all week. HH jim tn
working its way into the upper 60's next week. You all take care. HH jim tn