halfdime
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Not usually jazzed about wheats, but there's more.
I've been sifting topsoil (to use in my yard) at my aunt's house and I got to about ten buckets and decided it was time for something completely different - detecting. She has an old foundation on her property that dates to the first half of the 19th century, supposedly, and I've found lots of older wheats, an Indian or two and only two silvers near this foundation (a Merc and war nickel). On the newer areas, I've found more silver but that's beside the point. I've been over this particular plot of ground a lot, and Kiros32 and DrDetector have also spent time there. Imagine my surprise when my first signal was a 1958 wheat. A little while later, a 57D. Suddenly, I heard someone say, "You getting rich?" or something like that. I looked up and there was one of my aunt's older twin daughters. All I could say was, "What are you doing here?" She lives, you see, in Arlington, Virginia. Turns out my aunt has a heart procedure at 6AM tomorrow morning! Once again, my mother forgot to tell me something
. I ended up with five wheats, the nicest being a 19S, and this seems to be a pattern with me. I search an area thoroughly, I think, and go back some months or years later and find wheats I missed. This seldom happens with any other coins, especially silver. The ground is nice and damp, but not sloppy, so maybe that wasn't the case when I've hunted there before. I also added a military button; I trust that someone here will be able to identify an era. There don't appear to be any markings on the back. My last signal was real sloppy, but this is a spot where that could be gold and I dug. It was this 50 cent trade token, patented June 1909. Does anyone know what the Ingle system is? I'll research. I didn't notice the crack when I dug it, but it was in two pieces when I got home. The crack isn't clean, so It must have been hairline and I didn't see it. The token alone was worth the effort; four of the five wheats will go back in circulation!
I've been sifting topsoil (to use in my yard) at my aunt's house and I got to about ten buckets and decided it was time for something completely different - detecting. She has an old foundation on her property that dates to the first half of the 19th century, supposedly, and I've found lots of older wheats, an Indian or two and only two silvers near this foundation (a Merc and war nickel). On the newer areas, I've found more silver but that's beside the point. I've been over this particular plot of ground a lot, and Kiros32 and DrDetector have also spent time there. Imagine my surprise when my first signal was a 1958 wheat. A little while later, a 57D. Suddenly, I heard someone say, "You getting rich?" or something like that. I looked up and there was one of my aunt's older twin daughters. All I could say was, "What are you doing here?" She lives, you see, in Arlington, Virginia. Turns out my aunt has a heart procedure at 6AM tomorrow morning! Once again, my mother forgot to tell me something
. I ended up with five wheats, the nicest being a 19S, and this seems to be a pattern with me. I search an area thoroughly, I think, and go back some months or years later and find wheats I missed. This seldom happens with any other coins, especially silver. The ground is nice and damp, but not sloppy, so maybe that wasn't the case when I've hunted there before. I also added a military button; I trust that someone here will be able to identify an era. There don't appear to be any markings on the back. My last signal was real sloppy, but this is a spot where that could be gold and I dug. It was this 50 cent trade token, patented June 1909. Does anyone know what the Ingle system is? I'll research. I didn't notice the crack when I dug it, but it was in two pieces when I got home. The crack isn't clean, so It must have been hairline and I didn't see it. The token alone was worth the effort; four of the five wheats will go back in circulation!
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Really neat finds....... Hope all goes well with your aunts heart procedure.
