Mayo South Elgin
Sr. Member
Well I overslept today and by the time I got where I was going, it was just me and my detector.
Some of you will remember my first close call this year. That was when I found the 1916 dime and it had a mint mark on it - just not the money mint mark... and I had nicked the back of that coin so I guess it was better that it wasn't the key date it could have been.
Today I had my second close call.
I was working a park I had been to many times before only this time I purposely tried detecting areas I thought would be less likely for detecting. (Less detecting, more coins) One spot only yielded a few clad coins, lots of beaver tail and pull tabs, so I moved on to another less likely spot. This area had a rise to it like the park groundskeepers may have built up dirt there at one time. I worked the rise and successfully liberated two Old Milwaukee beer cans from 9 and 10 inches. Got a couple wheat pennies then moved on to another spot.
I got the usual penny signal and was thinking, do I really want to dig another mem cent but being the glutton for punishment, I dig it up anyways and brushing off the dirt, I see a nicely readable 1909! Wait a second - there's supposed to be an S underneath the 1909. Alas, no S. So I tossed it into the pouch. I worked around the park to another spot that is park property but doesn't look like it because it's across the street. Worked it for a while but didn't find anything and then I decided to detect closer to the street. Ten feet away from the street sign, I get a crummy penny signal and I think - here we go again. To my surprise out pops an Indian head in fairly good shape - at less than 4 inches deep. I have no idea how we missed it last year because I know we hit the same dirt before.
So when I get home, I clean up the coins a little and I take a closer look at the 1909.
Sure enough there in tiny letters on the back - VDB. So close and yet so far...
This is the first VDB I've ever seen in person and although it would have been WAY cooler if it was the elusive S, I'll take it.
Also got a toy fireman's hat with an eagle head on front - it looks familiar but I don't remember what specific toy it was from. There's a hole in the back part - maybe it was hanging on a fire truck?
Not pictured were the 1944 wheat and the 1911 wheat and the heapin handful of clad.
Some of you will remember my first close call this year. That was when I found the 1916 dime and it had a mint mark on it - just not the money mint mark... and I had nicked the back of that coin so I guess it was better that it wasn't the key date it could have been.
Today I had my second close call.
I was working a park I had been to many times before only this time I purposely tried detecting areas I thought would be less likely for detecting. (Less detecting, more coins) One spot only yielded a few clad coins, lots of beaver tail and pull tabs, so I moved on to another less likely spot. This area had a rise to it like the park groundskeepers may have built up dirt there at one time. I worked the rise and successfully liberated two Old Milwaukee beer cans from 9 and 10 inches. Got a couple wheat pennies then moved on to another spot.
I got the usual penny signal and was thinking, do I really want to dig another mem cent but being the glutton for punishment, I dig it up anyways and brushing off the dirt, I see a nicely readable 1909! Wait a second - there's supposed to be an S underneath the 1909. Alas, no S. So I tossed it into the pouch. I worked around the park to another spot that is park property but doesn't look like it because it's across the street. Worked it for a while but didn't find anything and then I decided to detect closer to the street. Ten feet away from the street sign, I get a crummy penny signal and I think - here we go again. To my surprise out pops an Indian head in fairly good shape - at less than 4 inches deep. I have no idea how we missed it last year because I know we hit the same dirt before.
So when I get home, I clean up the coins a little and I take a closer look at the 1909.
Sure enough there in tiny letters on the back - VDB. So close and yet so far...
This is the first VDB I've ever seen in person and although it would have been WAY cooler if it was the elusive S, I'll take it.
Also got a toy fireman's hat with an eagle head on front - it looks familiar but I don't remember what specific toy it was from. There's a hole in the back part - maybe it was hanging on a fire truck?
Not pictured were the 1944 wheat and the 1911 wheat and the heapin handful of clad.
