I've hunted two days in a row now. Thank God I have a forgiving wife. 
I did race home early and wash her car for her though, being the thoughtful husband that I am. O.K. enough B.S.
I spotted this turn of the century house about a week ago, asked permission, and received a "yes".
It is in the middle of a small downtown area. Once again, NO SILVER! This time I know why though. Fifteen minutes into my hunt, and old man from across the street came over to bend my ear. He said he has "hit the yard hard" a few times about a year ago with his Radio Shack detector. He said as far as silver he had only found a few Merc's, a quarter, and a nice medal of honor in the front yard.
After about 30 minutes of chewing the fat, I was back at it. I ended up digging a lot of deep wheats (6-8"). I actually dug more wheats than Memorials. Eleven wheats in all. Surprisingly, I only dug about 5 pull tabs too, but a lot of these octagon shaped thingys with a hook on the back of them. They were all over the place close to the house, so I'm thinking they are roof related?
Any ideas?
I did get one up on the old guy though. He had told me in all his years of detecting he had never dug an IH penny or an LC. Well, I got a nice 1907 IH by the edge of the driveway.
It cleaned up nice, and has great detail.
The two rings look to be copper too. No stamping on either one, but I can see the smaller one had been sized before.
Now for the $100 nickel..........
I got home, cleaned my finds, and discovered that the only nickel I had dug today was a 1943 "P" silver war nickel. So I consult the 2008 Red Book and see that it shows a value of $100.00 for a VF-20 condition.
So of course, I about soiled myself. Then I noticed that the next best grade EF-4- is only worth $1.25. Hmmmm, can you say misprint? 
So I went from a $100 nickel to a $1.00 nickel very quickly.![:-\](https://www.treasurenet.com/smilies/undecided.gif "Undecided :-\")
The wheats are: 1918 (x2) , 1935 (x2) , 1937 , 1940 (x2) , 1941 , 1946 , 1951 , 1952.
Not a great day for finds, but it was 70 and sunny today with a nice breeze. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Thanks for looking,
MM
I did race home early and wash her car for her though, being the thoughtful husband that I am. O.K. enough B.S.I spotted this turn of the century house about a week ago, asked permission, and received a "yes".
It is in the middle of a small downtown area. Once again, NO SILVER!
This time I know why though. Fifteen minutes into my hunt, and old man from across the street came over to bend my ear. He said he has "hit the yard hard" a few times about a year ago with his Radio Shack detector. He said as far as silver he had only found a few Merc's, a quarter, and a nice medal of honor in the front yard. After about 30 minutes of chewing the fat, I was back at it. I ended up digging a lot of deep wheats (6-8"). I actually dug more wheats than Memorials. Eleven wheats in all. Surprisingly, I only dug about 5 pull tabs too, but a lot of these octagon shaped thingys with a hook on the back of them. They were all over the place close to the house, so I'm thinking they are roof related?
Any ideas?I did get one up on the old guy though. He had told me in all his years of detecting he had never dug an IH penny or an LC. Well, I got a nice 1907 IH by the edge of the driveway.
It cleaned up nice, and has great detail. The two rings look to be copper too.
No stamping on either one, but I can see the smaller one had been sized before. Now for the $100 nickel..........
I got home, cleaned my finds, and discovered that the only nickel I had dug today was a 1943 "P" silver war nickel. So I consult the 2008 Red Book and see that it shows a value of $100.00 for a VF-20 condition.
So of course, I about soiled myself. Then I noticed that the next best grade EF-4- is only worth $1.25. Hmmmm, can you say misprint? So I went from a $100 nickel to a $1.00 nickel very quickly.
The wheats are: 1918 (x2) , 1935 (x2) , 1937 , 1940 (x2) , 1941 , 1946 , 1951 , 1952.
Not a great day for finds, but it was 70 and sunny today with a nice breeze. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Thanks for looking,
MM
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