Its been a full year since the old school was fenced off and out of bounds for detecting. The school has been demolished and new retail is now in its place. Drove by on Friday and the fence was removed! On Saturday met up with Silver Star and noticed someone detecting, we walked over to say hi and it was Zrickkid (Ricky and his dog). We quickly grabbed our detectors but only had 1.5hrs left of light. I was able to get a 57 Rosie and 7 wheats. Was up before the sunrise Sunday and onsite by 7:30am, it was a brisk 32 degrees but otherwise sunny.
First find was a 44 Merc followed by a 42 Washington. Shortly after I got a good signal 3 inches down under a fist sized rock was a smooth no date SLQ, my second one ever. After that it slowed down a bit but was able to get 15 more wheat pennies including my foreign find of the day a 1950 Canadian penny.
My last good find rang up as a penny, it weighs 5 grams and is about the size of a quarter. It is counter stamped on one side only with an S, and there is no detail on either sides that I can tell, I have not cleaned it at all even with water because I like the green patina. Anyone have an idea what it is? It was great weekend as everyone walked away with silver. I hope they move some dirt around as there are gigantic piles of earth(some 30ft high) hiding old coins. The heavy machinery really packs down the soil in most areas. Im hoping for 3-4 more weeks of good weather until it freezes up for the year....HH.
First find was a 44 Merc followed by a 42 Washington. Shortly after I got a good signal 3 inches down under a fist sized rock was a smooth no date SLQ, my second one ever. After that it slowed down a bit but was able to get 15 more wheat pennies including my foreign find of the day a 1950 Canadian penny.
My last good find rang up as a penny, it weighs 5 grams and is about the size of a quarter. It is counter stamped on one side only with an S, and there is no detail on either sides that I can tell, I have not cleaned it at all even with water because I like the green patina. Anyone have an idea what it is? It was great weekend as everyone walked away with silver. I hope they move some dirt around as there are gigantic piles of earth(some 30ft high) hiding old coins. The heavy machinery really packs down the soil in most areas. Im hoping for 3-4 more weeks of good weather until it freezes up for the year....HH.
