As I mentioned in a previous post, I haven't been finding much lately, ergo, I haven't been posting much. Saturday started off with a real chill in the air (high 20's) and I decided to change my modus operandi to see if I could shake things up and change my luck. I went south towards Boston and on my way to my first site I spotted a small, very small neglected 'playground'. Well, the grass was mowed but the single swing set (the single plaything on the lot) was rusty with a missing seat and looked like it hasn't seen any use for some time. Knowing the amount of detectorists in the area, I wasn't expecting to hit great gobs of silver but the change of scenery was good for the soul. My first target was a spill with two Susan B. Anthony dollars, two Kennedy half-dollars and a penny. This was the first time that I found a clad half-dollar and I kept imagining what that would have felt like if it had been silver. My third target was a spill of three quarters and from there it was a lot of quarters and some dimes. I still had a couple of other sites that I wanted to hit (my original site, an old school and another playground) so I headed out and didn't do too well at those sites except at one ball park, way outside of the third base line I hit a really bad signal but I could make out the familiar ping of a coin. It turned out to be a Netherland East Indies 1/4 Gulden which was minted in Philadelphia during the war. It contains very slightly more silver than an American mercury dime. In any case, I headed back to my original site and collected some more quarters and then called it a day. Final total was 2 dollar coins, 2 half-dollars, 25 quarters, 20 dimes and 26 pennies for a total of $11.51. The first spill and the sivler coin made it a good day for me.
thanks for looking.
thanks for looking.
erfect10: Sometimes it really helps to shake up the system.