Back To School = a first for me.

Today was kind of a goof off day at work, most people had the day off and just a few of us were at the office. So... I decided to take my detector to the old grade school in town during my lunch hour. I hunted this school to death last year and I had found several silvers there. Towards the end of 2011 finds were really sparse there, so I hadn't bothered to hunt it this year.

Within 5 minutes of firing up my E-Trac today I found a 1937 Mercury Dime in an area I had previously gridded from every direction. It's always a real head-scratcher how this can happen, but sometimes it does. During lunch I hunted for a total of 40 minutes and ended up finding 2 Mercury Dimes, 1 Buffalo Nickel and 1 V Nickel. I had never found a V Nickel at this school before so that was a real surprise.

After doing so well in such a short amount of time, I decided to head back to the school after work. On this second trip I found another Mercury Dime, another Buffalo Nickel, and 2 wheat cents. The Mercury Dime ended up being a first for me, it was my first 1916. FINALLY! Alas, no mint mark, but I was still happy to finally get one after finding hundreds of Mercury Dimes and not a single 1916. It's rather worn, but otherwise not too bad.

Here is the V Nickel. It is really worn, I don't think I've ever seen a nickel this thin! I think the date is 1890.



Buffalo Nickels dated 1924 and 1929-D:



Here is the 1916 Mercury Dime, my first!



The other two Mercs were both 1937 plains:



Wheat Cents dated 1914 and 1919-S:


Group photos of today's keepers:



It's still hard for me to believe that all of these coins were at this school that I had hunted so hard. I guess maybe I'm getting to know my E-Trac better since hunting there last year. :dontknow:

Thanks for looking and happy hunting!

Very nice Tony and congrats on a first, WTG |:cheering:

Nice looking coins, Congrats on your first of many more 16's. Hope you score a mint 16d someday. Happy Hunting!!

now thats the way to use the etrac to its potential! good job rehunting old ground and listening to your machine. its a realy nice surprise to find so many goodies when you thought the place was really getting thin in the goodie department huh? Congrats! erfect10:

Hi, Tony :yes:
A good school. not greedy
I like the Indians.
America of the early 20th century - it's interesting. You have half the country was (working) and shooting gangsters in the street <} (as we have in the 1990 -1995 s 8/ )
Was an interesting time.
Perhaps these coins have lost children? They wanted to buy food or sweets, biscuits at school for these coins? What do you think? :thinkingabout:

erfect10:

Sweet finds Tony |:cheering: That 1890 date on the V is readably on my screen but don't clean it , there's a good chance you would lose the date . :yes:

So last year the finds were sparse at the school which means this year you are that much better with the etrac. Congrats on all those keepers and someday that 16D will appear

Hey Tony, Don't know how I missed this one. Those are some awesome finds! Sorry about the 16. :crying02: Love the twin 37's :smitten: All great finds. Congrats |:cheering:

Great finds. It just goes to show you that a place is never hunted out.

Great bunch of finds on your lunch hunt! Very nice!