frozen woods yields silvers and coppers

[skierbob]

Hunted my favorite picnic woods today. Pretty frozen ground in spots. In some spots the ground just had a frozen crust. Other spots were frozen down to 5 inches or more. Had to give up on one promising signal that was just too deep. However, I was able to recover some nice stuff with my trusty, heavy-duty digger. A couple of coins were in frozen clumps of sod. So, I put the whole clumps in my pouch to check at home.

The first clump appeared to have a silver dime in it:


It was a Mercury dime:

Cleaned up:

The next clump appeared to have a penny in it:


It was an 1892 Indian Head Penny:


A dirty Barber:

Cleaned up:

A dirty Roosie:

Cleaned up:

 

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[halfdime]

Amazing! It must not be as nasty down east as it is out here.

 

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[history hunter]

Sounds like a nice place to hunt to me, WTG!!

 

[Jeff(or)]

WTG on the silver and Indians!!

 

[lairmo]

Hmmmm.....i have frozen woods around here too........Awesome coinage!!!

 

[rubberdiver13]

excellent work.......hope the thaw brings more silver your way

 

[dfx willy]

man thats better than a frozen TV dinner! willy.

 

[davew0710]

Nice finds!!!! Talk about cold cash!
keep it up

 

[rugratt]

Great finds. I might put the snow blower in the truck and go hunting!!!!!!!!!!!lol

 

[C-Weed]

Great Job skierbob !

As as a fellow Delco guy, it makes me confident that there is stuff around our way to find!

If you ever need someone to go with, give me a shout. I'm in Springfield.

Look forward to you next finds!

CW

 

[Detectingfreak]

Very nice job on the silver and the Indian head penny!!!!

 

[CanUDigIt]

Hey C-Weed! You are in a great area for history. My mom lives on Powell. Plenty of great places to hunt! Good luck to you!