I returned to an old homestead early Saturday morning not sure if it had been torn down during the week. When I arrived I found the house still there. The branches from a previous wind storm had pulled out of the way, and the grass had been cut. Hmmm... just what I needed! More exposed ground to hunt on my 2nd trip to this site. I started in the rear of the house, which had been covered in limbs... now the fresh ground was exposed, so I gave it a try... to find that the mower operator chopped up a few reams of aluminum foil. The front was littered with signals making it tough to hunt. I moved to the front of the grand house. The low grass gave way to a better search. I started hitting some clad. quarter, penny, penny, dime throughout the small front yard. I was surprised to find nothing old in the front area... and swung around to the front side where I found an old Chinese coin and some wheats the week before.
This time I really came up with no goodies. So I moved to side yard which stretched a good hundred yards in a triangular shaped tract of land. I had found a couple wheats on this side the week before. I re-searched the ground again, going a bit slower than my last trip and much further from the house. Found a horseshoe. and some more pennies. I was happy to get coins on most of my signals. Most of them being 1/2" or less in depth. Next I locked in on a good signal, a 79-81 and 3" deep. Dug it, hoping "Come on silver but I'll take a wheat too, but I'd prefer a silver"... Emptied the hole onto a drop cloth and found the signal now moved to my dirt pile. I figured "not seeing any silver, it's likely a dark wheat mixed in the brown soil." After poking around with the bullseye, saw that reeded edge... picked a 1938 Mercury dime.
Proceeded to find a closeby signal, turned out to be an 1882 IHP. Worked back around the house, finding a wheat on the opposite side, and then reworked the front, clearing a few dozens pennies/dimes from the turf. Found one more wheat by large tree in the front. Concluded the morning (now nearly noon) with some good finds. So I hit the road finally breaking my drought on silver coins.
2 wheats were 1944, and 1945.
This time I really came up with no goodies. So I moved to side yard which stretched a good hundred yards in a triangular shaped tract of land. I had found a couple wheats on this side the week before. I re-searched the ground again, going a bit slower than my last trip and much further from the house. Found a horseshoe. and some more pennies. I was happy to get coins on most of my signals. Most of them being 1/2" or less in depth. Next I locked in on a good signal, a 79-81 and 3" deep. Dug it, hoping "Come on silver but I'll take a wheat too, but I'd prefer a silver"... Emptied the hole onto a drop cloth and found the signal now moved to my dirt pile. I figured "not seeing any silver, it's likely a dark wheat mixed in the brown soil." After poking around with the bullseye, saw that reeded edge... picked a 1938 Mercury dime.
Proceeded to find a closeby signal, turned out to be an 1882 IHP. Worked back around the house, finding a wheat on the opposite side, and then reworked the front, clearing a few dozens pennies/dimes from the turf. Found one more wheat by large tree in the front. Concluded the morning (now nearly noon) with some good finds. So I hit the road finally breaking my drought on silver coins.
2 wheats were 1944, and 1945.
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Bjorn: Does wonders for your morale when you see Silver, doesn't it? Sounds like the site will produce! Good Hunting!
....."silver drought" I like that 
