Saturday
Saturday was a blustery day, with wind gust reaching 28 mph or more. It still wasn't all that cold though, so I grabbed my E-Trac, made sure my battery was fully charged, and headed to the park. The park was deserted when I arrived, the strong wind apparently discouraging the locals from venturing out to take their regular walks. I didn't waste much time and began to detect.
The site is quite trashy and iron presents a challenge as well, especially at an area near the fence circling the park. But the E-Trac still sniffed out three silver coins for me.
My first good target, a 1923 mercury dime.
Toward late afternoon the temperature was dropping a bit too much for my taste. The strong wind wasn't helping much either. I left after digging up my last two silver coins, a 1957-D quarter and a 1939 mercury dime.
Sunday
Sunday I returned to the park, arriving at about 11:45 a.m. In the distance I could see someone who appeared to be detecting, but it was hard to tell from where I was standing. I grabbed my machine and began walking toward the same area. Closer now, I could see that there were two individuals detecting. I stopped, turned on my machine, noise canceled, and began detecting while walking in their direction. After about three sweeps I got a very nice signal. I cut a plug and there it was, a large silver ring.
With ring in hand I began walking toward the two individuals. Now I was able to recognize a familiar face. It was Scott (catskillcomics) and Bruce (bmattioli). It was nice to meet up with members of our forum.
I showed them my find, chatted for a bit, and then we got busy detecting.
I selected an area not far from where Scott and Bruce were detecting, and about 20 minutes later I had my first silver coin, a very nice 1928 Standing Liberty quarter.
Now I knew I had to work this area carefully. I remained there the rest of the day, and by the time I called it quits I had five more silver coins in my pouch; two Roosevelt dimes, both dated 1952, two Washington quarters, dated 1939 and 1964, and my last find of the day, a 1944 mercury dime, which I picked up a few minutes after Scott left.
Here are two of the coins, the 1964 quarter and 1944 mercury dime, while they were still encased in soil.
My total take, three quarters and three silver dimes.
I also dug up about a dozen wheat cents, with two spills in the mix.
One of the wheat cent spills.
All the wheat cents.
A padlock rounded up the day's finds.
HH!
Saturday was a blustery day, with wind gust reaching 28 mph or more. It still wasn't all that cold though, so I grabbed my E-Trac, made sure my battery was fully charged, and headed to the park. The park was deserted when I arrived, the strong wind apparently discouraging the locals from venturing out to take their regular walks. I didn't waste much time and began to detect.
The site is quite trashy and iron presents a challenge as well, especially at an area near the fence circling the park. But the E-Trac still sniffed out three silver coins for me.
My first good target, a 1923 mercury dime.
Toward late afternoon the temperature was dropping a bit too much for my taste. The strong wind wasn't helping much either. I left after digging up my last two silver coins, a 1957-D quarter and a 1939 mercury dime.
Sunday
Sunday I returned to the park, arriving at about 11:45 a.m. In the distance I could see someone who appeared to be detecting, but it was hard to tell from where I was standing. I grabbed my machine and began walking toward the same area. Closer now, I could see that there were two individuals detecting. I stopped, turned on my machine, noise canceled, and began detecting while walking in their direction. After about three sweeps I got a very nice signal. I cut a plug and there it was, a large silver ring.
With ring in hand I began walking toward the two individuals. Now I was able to recognize a familiar face. It was Scott (catskillcomics) and Bruce (bmattioli). It was nice to meet up with members of our forum.
I showed them my find, chatted for a bit, and then we got busy detecting.I selected an area not far from where Scott and Bruce were detecting, and about 20 minutes later I had my first silver coin, a very nice 1928 Standing Liberty quarter.
Now I knew I had to work this area carefully. I remained there the rest of the day, and by the time I called it quits I had five more silver coins in my pouch; two Roosevelt dimes, both dated 1952, two Washington quarters, dated 1939 and 1964, and my last find of the day, a 1944 mercury dime, which I picked up a few minutes after Scott left.
Here are two of the coins, the 1964 quarter and 1944 mercury dime, while they were still encased in soil.
My total take, three quarters and three silver dimes.
I also dug up about a dozen wheat cents, with two spills in the mix.
One of the wheat cent spills.
All the wheat cents.
A padlock rounded up the day's finds.
HH!
