Best time yet at the Ghost town.

[Colorado Kidd]

Well,

It was a beautiful day for Colorado in March. Got up to 60 degrees for the first time this year and no wind. Sunny too. Went back the the old town lot where I've found a few old coins in two short hunts. Hunted about 2 hours today. Boy, that place is trashy. I thought I was going to go nuts with all the signals. I was hunting with the disc. turned up to pulltab but decided to drop it down and tough it out. Glad I did because the next signal was a 1914 Buffalo nickel, my first ever. Got another good signal and thought, yea yea another piece of tin can. Then my daughter rolled a coin out of the pile. 1909 V Nickel, another first for me. The lady that lives next door to the empty lot, in one of the original downtown buildings, hears us whooping and hollering and comes out. We showed her what we had found and she tells us that we can hunt her yard and the lot on the other side of her any time we want. Now the other lot was the site of a hotel in the 1880's. There is so much metal there that I will be busy all summer. I plan to do some sifting too. Here are some pics.

This is my first old button and I think its a dandy. I can just imagine some farmer driving home in his model T with his overall strap flapping and cursing his rotten luck.


This is the lot where the hotel stood.

Also got permission to hunt here. Don't know what the bussiness was that was here.


Here are the kids with our two hard won old coins.


Here is a closeup of them.


The trash was mighty today. Filled my pouch twice. Worth it though.


Thanks for looking. I'll be back there next Saturday. Happy hunting.

 

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[Stormtrooper154]

Thats just great...Congrats!!!

Does the coins have any mint marks?

 

[Coincollector22]

Great finds! Congrats! ^_^

 

[River Rat]

Great finds, you had fun and so did the children.

RR

 

[Colorado Kidd]

Thanks stormtrooper,

No mint marks just the date.

 

[Getty]

Great job and good luck with the other sites!!HH

 

[TreasureTales]

Treasure hunting a ghost town with dad will leave many happy memories with your children. That's a treasure, too. The coins are great. And sifting the soil might be very productive so here's hoping you do go ahead and do that sometime. The lady sounds very nice, maybe a little time chatting with her will be your gift to her. Folks can get lonesome.

Please keep posting the story and the pix of your hunts there, it's been great reading about it. Thank you.

 

[Colorado Kidd]

I was wrong. There is an s below the five cents on the reverse. I need to get a good magnifying glass.

 

[Southcacalaky]

Looks like a great site to hunt for a long time , HH Art...

 

[partenr]

Gosh...super finds. I give you kudos for tolerating the "crazy beepiness" to get the goods.

 

[shootist]

Wow that looks like a fantastic plce to hunt. I really like hearing a bunch of trash,it means a lot of people were there dropping all sorts of goodies. Really nice of the old lady to offer up the other spots for you as well,I bet you will have the best luck around that hotel,make sure u hit around any depressions and old tree stumps. Before A/C guests would spend a lot of time out on the lawn underneath the shade trees playing cards and passing the time. Great to see ya get the kids out too,I have several that get out with me,they have their own detectors and work in teams and they do quite well. I love seeing them make a good find they get so excited and they seldom complain and Ive yet to hear anyone say'Im bored',HH...Shoot

 

[fd3615]

good story.. keep us posted

 

[Stormtrooper154]

I was wrong. There is an s below the five cents on the reverse. I need to get a good magnifying glass.

Good details on the coin for being a dug example. My book is putting the 1914-S Bufallo at $20.00+/-

The liberty books for around $1.00, but it's historic value is priceless....Really for the kids!!!

Great find man! $21.00 for 2 nickels is awesome!