Silver Dime Spill, Silver Quarter Spill, Indians, V Nickels on March 16

Today I headed to a familiar town to hunt two parks, one park that I had hunted several times before and one park that I had never been to. It was cloudy, windy and cold, but some decent finds made it bearable.

I started at the large city park that I had hunted many times before. After a couple of hours I had only found a 1904 Indian Head and a couple of wheaties, so I decided to work my way to my car and head to another spot. When I was about 30 feet from my car I got a really good deep silver signal that ended up being two silver dimes stuck together in one hole, a 1924 Merc and a 1946 Rosie. After I found those two dimes I decided to work that area a little harder, and I found an 1887 Indian Head. Also in this same general vicinity I found a really neat sterling silver mechanical pencil.

At that point I opted to head to a different site. This second park would be easy to overlook. The park is between the railroad tracks and a church. Many people would probably assume that it is part of the church property, but it is actually a small city park. There is a stone monument at the corner that states the property was donated by a man and wife in 1915 to be used as a playground.

Right away at this second park I found a wheat cent, then I got a really good signal that sounded like deep silver at the base of a big tree. I was happy to find a 1951-D silver quarter in the hole! I checked the hole again and got another signal that sounded like there might be another silver quarter, and there was! This time it was a 1938. By this time I'm feeling really good about this park so I hunted it for another 3 hours and got a 1923 Merc, a 1909 Indian Head, 2 V Nickels and several wheat cents.

Here are all of my finds for the day:


And here are the keepers:


Three Indian Heads today: 1887, 1904 and 1909




Two V Nickels: 1891 and 1912


Here are the two silver dimes that were in the same hole. You can see how they were stuck together back-to-back:




And the lone Merc that was found at the second park:



Here are the two silver quarters that were together under the tree. I don't know why the 1938 is so tarnished.


And my favorite find of the day, a sterling silver mechanical pencil that has hand-engraved designs on it. On the top cap it says, Fine Poynt - Made in New York, USA - Sterling Silver. This was about 8 deep.



That's all, folks!

Thanks for looking and happy hunting! :beerbuddy:

looks like a great day that turned into a variety of good finds congrats on your hunt dennis

Oh yeah, almost forgot. I also found this 1920 wheat cent that I guess had been turned into a whizzer.
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What a days hunt Tony. erfect10: Very unusal but cool pencil :congrats:

Wow Tony! What a hunt :drool:

So much to say! The details on that 1904 indian are super!

And WHAT? 2 silver spills in one day? Insane! I've only ever found 2 silver spills, and both were 2 dimes.

And the mechanical pencil just might be the most interesting and ornate silver relic I have ever seen. You just might have the relic of the month there. :grin:

What a great variety of neat finds. :congrats:

Tony, as always your hunts are great. You're still racking up the IH,s but that sterling mechanical pencil is fantastic. :congrats: on all those silvers, and V's.

wow Tony! great hunt! i really love that pencil! thats gorgeous!

WOW, that's a super haul. I don't think I could have made myself leave the first park after finding silvers and a Indian .

I tried to do some online research on the silver pencil, and I discovered that it is actually a Fyne Poynt pencil made by the Mabie Todd company.

Mabie Todd made pens and pencils in New York for almost 100 years from 1843 to 1941. I found some very similar to mine online but none that were exactly like it. I was not able to date mine, but I would guess that it is from the early 1900s.

:wow: :wow: :wow: WTG Tony! Great finds! erfect10: Love the pencil! :smitten: I love finding silver coins, but finding things like that pencil really crank my tractor! :congrats:

wow...thats an awesome hunt! congrats on the 2 spills, and the other oldies are super also. love that pen!! erfect10: erfect10:

What a day, great hunt , its gettin close up here in iowa

I love the pencil!!!!!

Holy crap that is the hunt of a lifetime right there. I've got to wonder if I'm swinging the right end of my detector after looking at this. WOW! The silver coinage would make my day but that pencil is absolutely unreal! :envious: :envious: :envious: Congrats!

That's some good hunting right there :clapping: 2 silver coin spills in one hunt :shocked03: You da man!

Great finds but that sterling pencil is too cool Tony!!!! |:cheering:

erfect10:

Great finds I really like the mech. Pencile

erfect10:! Man Tony, what a hunt! :congrats: on all the great finds! Awesome silver pencil! Thats a one of a kind find! WTG!! |:cheering:

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Congrats Tony!! eace: Glad to see you continue to get out there digging some very, very productive holes. thumbsup01 :smitten:
These keepers are absolutely gorgeous. :loveit: Especially the silver, IH's and V's! The silver pencil is off the charts! :happydance01:

We are still locked solid with frozen ground here in Iowa. Hopefully just a bit over a week, or two, away from soft dirt here. :daydream:

Looking forward to your 2013 posts. :->