DPBOB
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- Apr 12, 2006
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I took my Son to college on Sat. to IOWA CITY , ( University of Iowa )
On Sunday I took a short side trip on the way back.. The back roads of IOWA.. GRAVEL ROADS for miles.
Stopped at several locations but every farm house that was close to where I wanted to hunt nobody was home...
Most likely at Church...
So what did I do I decided to go to Church, that is to hunt one....
Got permission to hunt a church while church was going on but came up empty handed....
Was at the end of my side trip and hadn't found a thing..
I went down a couple of more roads when I came upon a burnt out house that was still smoldering..
Went down the road to a couple of farms and again no one home.. I said the heck with it I'm going to hunt it.
First hole I dug was a Wheatie Cool..
Second hole I dug was a silver dime..."Cool Come on be a 1916D", I SAID OUT LOUD ... I rubbed away a little dirt where the date is and WOW!!! a 1916 Holy S%#T ...I started to shake ... Rubbed a little where the mint mark should be and again Holy S%$T I saw a mint mark Jezz was I shaking UNTIL
I saw that it was an S mint mark.....Still what a thrill..
About 5 minutes after that a truck pulled into the drive way and the guy asked me what I was looking for?
I told him I was looking for coins.. I explained that I went to a few of the farms down the road to ask for permission but no one was home at any of them..
He told me that he owned it and that I could stay as long I wanted too...The house was built in 1910 and they burnt it down on Sat.... Cool.....Spent about 1 1/2 hours there
and that was the only good find besides a bunch of other wheaties and a silver ring and some change....
SO CLOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
On Sunday I took a short side trip on the way back.. The back roads of IOWA.. GRAVEL ROADS for miles.
Stopped at several locations but every farm house that was close to where I wanted to hunt nobody was home...
Most likely at Church...
So what did I do I decided to go to Church, that is to hunt one....
Got permission to hunt a church while church was going on but came up empty handed....
Was at the end of my side trip and hadn't found a thing..
I went down a couple of more roads when I came upon a burnt out house that was still smoldering..
Went down the road to a couple of farms and again no one home.. I said the heck with it I'm going to hunt it.
First hole I dug was a Wheatie Cool..
Second hole I dug was a silver dime..."Cool Come on be a 1916D", I SAID OUT LOUD ... I rubbed away a little dirt where the date is and WOW!!! a 1916 Holy S%#T ...I started to shake ... Rubbed a little where the mint mark should be and again Holy S%$T I saw a mint mark Jezz was I shaking UNTIL
I saw that it was an S mint mark.....Still what a thrill..
About 5 minutes after that a truck pulled into the drive way and the guy asked me what I was looking for?
I told him I was looking for coins.. I explained that I went to a few of the farms down the road to ask for permission but no one was home at any of them..
He told me that he owned it and that I could stay as long I wanted too...The house was built in 1910 and they burnt it down on Sat.... Cool.....Spent about 1 1/2 hours there
and that was the only good find besides a bunch of other wheaties and a silver ring and some change....
SO CLOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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