MangoAve
New member
Got out a second time this week..I guess one day with Lee wasn't too much to handle. He took me to a park and boy it was packed with a ton of people playing sports in their colorful uniforms. We got a few clad, he got another wheat, and we both got IH. He had showed me the location where the worker's houses used to be. I kept getting a few hits around 4 inches that turned out to be something much deeper. But 3 or 4 of those times I hit some broken glass and concrete pebbles and what looked like charcoal. I gave up on most of them, but one I continued. For a minute it was a disappointment to bother the dig, cuz I pulled up a square-ish piece of iron. I was certain there was a valid signal there. I put the pinpointer back into the hole and found there was something more. I loosened all the dirt, pulled some up, and there it was sitting in the hole. A nice crusty penny. It was right next to the iron and you can see the rust mark on the coin. When I pulled it out, I had no idea what type it was. Lee came over and said it was definitely an IH. He saw the 'reeded' edge and was quite certain. He was also certain it was a fatty. Afterward I threw down a quarter to check the number, got 111-112. Picked it up and went swinging. There were a few pops and some junk but when I found something reading 114-115 I knew what it was. Sure enough, a nice redish bicentennial quarter. I thought I was on a streak when I got a huge $1/50 cent signal... oops.. it was just a 3" cap to a pole. A little more swinging and out came another 1999 quarter and a 1966 dime. Off by only a few years from it being silver. The front was caked with dirt and the Merc's have a 'similar' reverse.. but once the dirt dried and could fall off we saw it was a regular dime. I cleaned up the IH when I got home with a brush like lee said. I could see the ONE CENT in the middle of the coin with the sheild above. I confirmed it was an IH. I saw the the naked eye some of the words on the front. I looked under a microscope... and unfortunately it's not a fatty. The copper is folded like it is layered by the date, but it is an intact date. Lee, I still have my V-card. It's a 1901. But it was still great to find. On the second pic, the date is actually top right corner, opposite the rust mark.
