Fire Fighter 43
04-21-2015, 05:22 PM
I recently obtain permission to hunt a church property that dates back to the 1880's. The first day started out slow as I was hitting areas that had a lot of fill dirt. There was two pieces of playground equipment in a low area that had slightly different grass so I moved to that area. I hit a deep wheat and the ground was that nice black soil. I knew I had found some old ground. Shortly after the wheat I had another and then my first silver a Merc. I picked up a few more wheats including a 4 wheat spill and another Merc. I also found a small silver spill a war nickel and a Barber dime.
While I was detecting I could see the neighbor was watching me. He finally approach and asked what I was doing and who gave me permission. Once I explained to him who and what he became friendly. He started to tell me about the school that was once on the property and that he had went to school there as a kid. He was about 80yo. He stated he had played on the equipment I was detecting around and that he had rebuilt it a few years ago. I asked him how much fill and grading had been done and he pointed out pretty much the whole area except where I was detecting and a field near where the school stood. I asked him if they played in the field and he said yes we did, in fact we had a ball diamond right over there and that ground has never been touched. Well you can guess I was jumping out of my skin at that point. He finally left and I had about 10 minutes before it was time to leave. So I took one pass across the field and hit a deep 12-45. It turned out to be a Merc. I'm sure you can guess where I was going the next morning.
Day 2 started right where the ball diamond was and withinn a few minutes I had my first silver a Washington. Shortly after that I had a buffalo. I had a steady flow of old coins including a war nickel, Rosie, Merc, several wheats and another Washington. The last coin of the the day was a 1942 1 Franc. It is made out of Aluminum, at first I thought it was silver. A note: The area the ball diamond is in is very low area that is probably wet most of the time. That is why the silver is tarnished.
While I was detecting I could see the neighbor was watching me. He finally approach and asked what I was doing and who gave me permission. Once I explained to him who and what he became friendly. He started to tell me about the school that was once on the property and that he had went to school there as a kid. He was about 80yo. He stated he had played on the equipment I was detecting around and that he had rebuilt it a few years ago. I asked him how much fill and grading had been done and he pointed out pretty much the whole area except where I was detecting and a field near where the school stood. I asked him if they played in the field and he said yes we did, in fact we had a ball diamond right over there and that ground has never been touched. Well you can guess I was jumping out of my skin at that point. He finally left and I had about 10 minutes before it was time to leave. So I took one pass across the field and hit a deep 12-45. It turned out to be a Merc. I'm sure you can guess where I was going the next morning.
Day 2 started right where the ball diamond was and withinn a few minutes I had my first silver a Washington. Shortly after that I had a buffalo. I had a steady flow of old coins including a war nickel, Rosie, Merc, several wheats and another Washington. The last coin of the the day was a 1942 1 Franc. It is made out of Aluminum, at first I thought it was silver. A note: The area the ball diamond is in is very low area that is probably wet most of the time. That is why the silver is tarnished.