Really Good Spot Was Found By Accident!

Cool Hand Fluke

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I hunted 3 places today, I'll start with the first place I hit.

Got a tip from one of the local SF hunters about an alley with a dirt road in an older residential part of the city. (thanks Tim!) I started swinging in the alley and worked my way to the end. The only good target turned out to be a 1950's Tootsie Toy Jeep that sounded like a can. I spent about 1 hour there and found only 5 pennies, zinc and Lincolns.

My second location was found by accident. While driving to a baseball field I discovered this small median that was about 100' feet long and about 50' feet wide. I knew I had stumbled on a good spot because I dug up 3 wheat cents in the first 10 minutes! I stayed in the median for 4 hours and dug out 30 wheat pennies, 1 rosie silver dime, 1 silver war nickel, and 2 mercury dimes! I just kept swinging until no targets were left. I dug a total of 63 coins out of this small median!

My 3rd spot was a baseball field where I arrived about 5:30 pm. Hunting until 7 pm I was very much surprised with a 1908 Presidential watch fob depicting William Jennings Bryan and John Kern who where the democrat nominees for president & vice president. Watch fob was about 4 inched deep, how did it get in the baseball field?. A 1962 silver dime in the baseball field would add to my silver coin total of 5 for the day!
 

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Upvote 34
Oct 5, 2014
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Congratualtions on the great finds! :occasion14: You found three excellent places! :icon_thumright:
 

Peyton Manning

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Dec 19, 2012
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your pics do not show any beer vendors nearby, how did you cope with that?
 

BallsDeep

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Apr 30, 2012
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tomhighland

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Sep 26, 2015
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In MI woods
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Congratulations on a great day! Thank you for sharing your hunt with us.
 

Gridwalker306

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Nov 10, 2010
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Congrats on the silver and other good stuff
 

dirtlooter

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Jun 5, 2014
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great pics, great documentation, great finds.... great post
 

Diamondman307

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Why am I like the only person not to have a silver coin yet?!?!?! :crybaby2:
 

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