lrgoodger
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- May 2, 2023
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Because the owner said someone had already hunted it about 10 years ago. All of the old house yards I have hunted in my home town this year have been picked clean. Not even a wheatie in most of them. But somehow, whoever hunted this one missed a square foot right in the corner of the sidewalk where the walk from the front door meets the walk at the street. I hit a clad dime at 2" first. When I went back over the hole, there was a little tickle of a signal that I passed on because I wasn't sure it was really hitting. 12" away I got a weak signal that was ringing solidly both ways. I went down 2" and saw the glint of silver. It was so small I thought I had a trime at first, then I saw the HALF DIME on the back. It was a well worn 1856. Now I carefully went over the area, listening closely. In the edge of the hole where the clad dime was was a faint signal repeatable in both directions. It sounded just like the half dime. Dare I hope for another? At 5" deep I saw the glint of small silver again. It Is!!!, I thought. Then I got hold of it and saw the ONE DIME on the back. Surely it is seated and dropped along with the half dime, I thought. But it was a Barber, an 1898. I was happy with that for a hunted out yard. I spent the next 4 hours scrubbing the rest of the yard without getting a single wheatie. I did, however get a couple of deep Indian heads, an 1880 and an 1884. Both were 6" or so deep and iffy signals. I had to be right on top of them to read them, so it was easy to see how they had been missed. All in all, it turned out to be one of my better house yards, even if it had been hunted before!
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