Tony Two-Cent
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Unbelievably pleasant weather here today, mostly sunny with a high of 72. Very mild weather for July! So I decided to go for a relaxing hunt at a familiar park that I've hunted to death, just to see if I could coax any more old coins from the ground. Alas, after 3 hours the only old coins I had found were two wheat cents, so I opted to drive 2 towns over and try a park that I had hunted only once before.
This site was where the old grade school built in 1908 used to be in this town, but they tore down the school and turned the site into a city park. The other time I hunted here last year I found 2 Indian Heads and a Mercury Dime, so I knew there were possibly some old coins there.
I was the only person at the park, with the expection of a young girl who was sitting on a swing. I noticed that she was watching me intently. Pretty soon she approached me and asked me what I was looking for. I told her that I was looking for old coins. Now, sometimes kids can drive me nuts, but she was very well-mannered and polite. I found out that her name is Christina and she is 12 years old. She took a keen interest in my detecting, and asked what the numbers on my E-Trac display meant. I told her that I mostly pay attention to the second number, and 13 is sometimes a nickel, 44 a penny, 46 a dime and 47 a quarter. She began watching the screen and when I got a signal she would tell me what it was going to be.
Most kids will get bored and wander off after 15-20 minutes, but she stuck by my side for FOUR STRAIGHT HOURS! :shocked04: :stretcher:
I wasn't finding anything but clad, so I started letting her retrieve the targets. I would dig the plug and then use my target probe and tell her if the object was in the hole or in the plug. She would then dig around with her fingers until she found the object. She must have been having a good time to have stuck with it for that long. :lol:
Anyway, towards the end of the hunt I got a solid 12-45 signal at 5 deep. She had been trying to predict every target, but she wasn't sure what a 12-45 would be. I told her that it could be a penny or a dime. I was definitely shocked when a seated dime came out of the hole! :shocked04:
My first one of the year! :happy: I found six of them last year, but I was starting to worry that I wasn't going to find any this year.
About 6 feet from the seated dime I found a 1906 Indian Head. By this time it was getting late in the day so I bid farewell to my new friend and called it a day.
Here are my finds for today:
Not many old coins today. I'm glad I got the seated, otherwise it would have been a rather mediocre hunt.
This 1944 wheat cent has been shot... twice!
My seventh all-time seated dime, but my first 1888:
I like finding the old play coins that have a date on them:
The lid still lifts up on this old pocket watch. Unfortunately the back and insides are missing.
Anybody have any idea what this is? You can get an idea of the size from the first photo. Ornamental brass object with a hook at the bottom. I don't have a clue.
That's it! Thanks for looking and happy hunting! :beerbuddy:
This site was where the old grade school built in 1908 used to be in this town, but they tore down the school and turned the site into a city park. The other time I hunted here last year I found 2 Indian Heads and a Mercury Dime, so I knew there were possibly some old coins there.
I was the only person at the park, with the expection of a young girl who was sitting on a swing. I noticed that she was watching me intently. Pretty soon she approached me and asked me what I was looking for. I told her that I was looking for old coins. Now, sometimes kids can drive me nuts, but she was very well-mannered and polite. I found out that her name is Christina and she is 12 years old. She took a keen interest in my detecting, and asked what the numbers on my E-Trac display meant. I told her that I mostly pay attention to the second number, and 13 is sometimes a nickel, 44 a penny, 46 a dime and 47 a quarter. She began watching the screen and when I got a signal she would tell me what it was going to be.
Most kids will get bored and wander off after 15-20 minutes, but she stuck by my side for FOUR STRAIGHT HOURS! :shocked04: :stretcher:
I wasn't finding anything but clad, so I started letting her retrieve the targets. I would dig the plug and then use my target probe and tell her if the object was in the hole or in the plug. She would then dig around with her fingers until she found the object. She must have been having a good time to have stuck with it for that long. :lol:
Anyway, towards the end of the hunt I got a solid 12-45 signal at 5 deep. She had been trying to predict every target, but she wasn't sure what a 12-45 would be. I told her that it could be a penny or a dime. I was definitely shocked when a seated dime came out of the hole! :shocked04:
My first one of the year! :happy: I found six of them last year, but I was starting to worry that I wasn't going to find any this year.
About 6 feet from the seated dime I found a 1906 Indian Head. By this time it was getting late in the day so I bid farewell to my new friend and called it a day.
Here are my finds for today:
Not many old coins today. I'm glad I got the seated, otherwise it would have been a rather mediocre hunt.
This 1944 wheat cent has been shot... twice!
My seventh all-time seated dime, but my first 1888:
I like finding the old play coins that have a date on them:
The lid still lifts up on this old pocket watch. Unfortunately the back and insides are missing.
Anybody have any idea what this is? You can get an idea of the size from the first photo. Ornamental brass object with a hook at the bottom. I don't have a clue.
That's it! Thanks for looking and happy hunting! :beerbuddy:
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