Indian Heads, Buffalo, Silver Dimes, Watch Fob, Silver Ring, April 26 & 27, 2014

On Saturday I met up with Digger Don and his son DiggerAl for some detecting. At the first site we tried I got one wheat cent and a watch fob that says Puritan Flour on it. After a while we moved on to an old ball field and there I found a few wheat cents, a sterling silver ring and an International Harvester Co. button. In the afternoon we went back to the same site we hunted together before where I found the Walking Liberty Half. This time I only found one silver coin, a Merc that is dated 1920 I think.

On the way home I couldn't resist stopping at Silver Park for a little while. I got a really worn 1918 Merc and about 10 wheat cents there.

Today (Sunday) I went back to Two-Cent Park for a little while. Keepers are getting really hard to come by in this park, but I still managed a 1906 Indian Head, 3 wheat cents, a 1919 Buffalo Nickel and a 1946 Rosie. I also encountered another detectorist in this park for the first time and we chatted for a bit. His name is Ray and he was swinging a CTX 3030.

After a while I moved on to the park where I found the 1877 Swedish 2 Ore coin a couple of years ago. Today I only managed one keeper from this park, an 1879 Indian Head Cent.

Here are all of my finds from this weekend:



Here are the keepers:




The 1879 was in halfway decent shape:



Here are some of the non-coin items I found:



Aw, isn't it cute? Marked .925 on the inside:



It was fun hunting with Digger Don and DiggerAl again.

Thanks for looking and happy hunting! :beerbuddy:

wow Tony, great day

Nice job on the finds this weekend. You ended up with quite a large pile of coins.

I swear if they paved two-cent park, you would still pull silver out of there. :lolsign:
Your IHC button and Teddy Bear ring cleaned up really nice.
Hope we can get together again sometime this season. We had a good time !

Wow!!! you got a great bunch of finds there Tony :thumbsup02: the 1879 is a beauty!!!

You had a great hunt!

Sounds like you had a great weekend of hunting. Congrats

I think I might give up any hopes of keeping up with you right from the start this year Tony. LOL. Looks like you are well on your way already! Congrats on some nice digs. What's up with the non silver ring? I always wonder about those... not the obvious modern junkers, but the seemingly older copper or brass ones.

sounds like another good time Tony :yes: love the '79 by the way :smitten:

congrats on all of your finds you seem to do well just about every time you hunt dennis

z118 said:

What's up with the non silver ring? I always wonder about those... not the obvious modern junkers, but the seemingly older copper or brass ones.

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I don't know, Matt, but I sure do find a lot of them. I wonder if they were gold plated at one time?

Those pictures are a thing of beauty and a sign of a weekend well spent, congrats on the finds!!

You are the most proficient digger I've seen! You really know your machine! That's unbelievable!

Nice digs! Love those green IHPs.

Tony Two-Cent said:

I don't know, Matt, but I sure do find a lot of them. I wonder if they were gold plated at one time?

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Nice finds Tony! Just think if that IH had also been 1877! I find lots of those rings also. They were gold plated and some of the ones I find have an 18 stamped inside (but not 18K). I have read they were men's wedidng bands when they couldn't afford a real gold one.

Even though the coins came slowly, the pile is pretty good size. And top it off with a decent shape '79 Indian and it turned out to be a good weekend of hunting. :congrats:

Another nice pile of keepers. The reverse of the 1918 vs the 1920 is amazing as far as wear goes. Sounds like you had good time management over the weekend, lots of detecting time. :thumbsup01:

Super finds !