Mirage
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I had the itch to get out Friday after work. It was rainy and cold (30's) but I knew it would clear out the park. I headed out to an old park that we have done well at. Here is an artist's drawing of the park around 1910.
I worked an open field and found a couple deep wheat pennies. Then I decided to try going off the beaten path into the overgrowth (area we have not hit as hard). The detector was falsing a lot in the overgrowth and it was very wet but I managed to get a good strong signal – almost too good. Dug down a plug and found a muddy big sized coin. It had a lot of mud but I could tell it was a Walker!
Checked around a little more but was satisfied with my find and headed home. I washed up the Walker and set it out for Nate to see when he came home from school. The look on his face when he walked past the kitchen counter and saw the Walker sitting there with my other finds was priceless. He was like, “Whaaatt?!”
Saturday we went back to the park Nate found the seated last weekend. We started in a new spot. The soil was very mineralized and coupled with all the rain the detectors were behaving badly again. Nate did manage to find a Buffalo nickel. We tried some other places in the park. No a lot of targets. Found some older wheats, bullets, pocket knives, etc.
The neighborhood here is not the best. Lots of abandoned houses.
Since 2005 home prices in Cleveland have dropped an average of 48%. What was funny was when we were hunting up near these houses a black guy walked by and called Nate a “Homie”.
Wikipedia's definition:
Homie (less frequently, homey), is a contraction of the American slang word "homeboy" which became prevalent among some of the youth in the African American and Mexican American communities starting in the late 1960's and continuing up to the present, particularly in the hip hop subculture.
So after a while we headed back to our old faithful park. Armed now with my small coil and better weather, I worked the same area I found the Walker the previous day and found a silver Quarter. It was not two feet from where the Walker had been found under an old apple tree.
Walker turned out to be a 1917. The Quarter was a 1940 so the two coins were most likely dropped in the early 40's.
HH all and good luck,
Bob
I worked an open field and found a couple deep wheat pennies. Then I decided to try going off the beaten path into the overgrowth (area we have not hit as hard). The detector was falsing a lot in the overgrowth and it was very wet but I managed to get a good strong signal – almost too good. Dug down a plug and found a muddy big sized coin. It had a lot of mud but I could tell it was a Walker!
Checked around a little more but was satisfied with my find and headed home. I washed up the Walker and set it out for Nate to see when he came home from school. The look on his face when he walked past the kitchen counter and saw the Walker sitting there with my other finds was priceless. He was like, “Whaaatt?!”
Saturday we went back to the park Nate found the seated last weekend. We started in a new spot. The soil was very mineralized and coupled with all the rain the detectors were behaving badly again. Nate did manage to find a Buffalo nickel. We tried some other places in the park. No a lot of targets. Found some older wheats, bullets, pocket knives, etc.
The neighborhood here is not the best. Lots of abandoned houses.
Since 2005 home prices in Cleveland have dropped an average of 48%. What was funny was when we were hunting up near these houses a black guy walked by and called Nate a “Homie”.
Wikipedia's definition:
Homie (less frequently, homey), is a contraction of the American slang word "homeboy" which became prevalent among some of the youth in the African American and Mexican American communities starting in the late 1960's and continuing up to the present, particularly in the hip hop subculture.
So after a while we headed back to our old faithful park. Armed now with my small coil and better weather, I worked the same area I found the Walker the previous day and found a silver Quarter. It was not two feet from where the Walker had been found under an old apple tree.
Walker turned out to be a 1917. The Quarter was a 1940 so the two coins were most likely dropped in the early 40's.
HH all and good luck,
Bob
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