GA1dad
Greenie
Being new to the hobby, I've had pretty limited success in finding anything more than a penny here, or a quarter there. Prior to yesterday, may biggest find was 75 cents at a school playground. It was getting kind of frustrating actually. So this weekend I decided to branch out a bit and search a popular mountain swimming hole about an hour away. This location has a long rock slide that ends in a deepish hole. There is also a small beach area close by where folks stretch out on towels and picnic. I wouldn't be able to get in the water much with the Ace 350, but surely there'd be a lost coin or ring near the waters edge,,,,, not. Didn't find anything but fish hooks, sinkers and beer caps. Being a popular spot, I figure there are others that hunt it, and I was probably left with the trash. Oh well, I got out of the house and had a dandy day with my eight year old daughter. We did pick a few coins up around the gravel parking area.
Then yesterday a friend invited me to hunt a section of his property with him. The property previously had a bar on it, and it is absolutley filled with glass and beer cans. I hunted it once before, but got tired of digging up pull tabs and jar lids. My friend has an interest in old bottles, so he is tickled with the dump sites. I on the other hand am trying to locate my first silver coin. So I seperated from him and headed into the woods where there were few signals, but still a few old beer cans.
Finally I got a solid hit with a high pitched bell tone. About four inches down there was a quarter of unknown date due to the crud on the coin. Before covering the hole I ran the pinpointer over it once more,,,,, and found a dime,,,, and another quarter. Cool I thought, I've found some change that fell out of a hunters pocket. But there was more in this hole. Clearly I had stumbled across a cache of some sort. All said and done I found 52 coins in the hole, and not a readable date on any of them due to the crud. You could say I was pretty exited. Surely my first silver coil was mixed in here somewhere,,,,,,, not. After getting them home and rinsing them, the quarters ranged from 1965 to 1972. I haven't looked at all the dimes, but the ones I have all have a 1965 to 1967 range. Aside from being all in the same hole, there was one other noticable oddity,,,,,,,,, no pennies,,,,,, just quarters, nickels and dimes. Hmm,,, this is definately not an accidental dump. And in 1972, a sum of $6.65 would have been a decent little savings I guess. Anyway, it picked up my spirits and gave me the drive to keep swinging.
Now, if you've read all of my dribbling,,, thanks,,,, and I have a question. Do silver coins cake up with hard crud like clad does?
-Jason
Then yesterday a friend invited me to hunt a section of his property with him. The property previously had a bar on it, and it is absolutley filled with glass and beer cans. I hunted it once before, but got tired of digging up pull tabs and jar lids. My friend has an interest in old bottles, so he is tickled with the dump sites. I on the other hand am trying to locate my first silver coin. So I seperated from him and headed into the woods where there were few signals, but still a few old beer cans.
Finally I got a solid hit with a high pitched bell tone. About four inches down there was a quarter of unknown date due to the crud on the coin. Before covering the hole I ran the pinpointer over it once more,,,,, and found a dime,,,, and another quarter. Cool I thought, I've found some change that fell out of a hunters pocket. But there was more in this hole. Clearly I had stumbled across a cache of some sort. All said and done I found 52 coins in the hole, and not a readable date on any of them due to the crud. You could say I was pretty exited. Surely my first silver coil was mixed in here somewhere,,,,,,, not. After getting them home and rinsing them, the quarters ranged from 1965 to 1972. I haven't looked at all the dimes, but the ones I have all have a 1965 to 1967 range. Aside from being all in the same hole, there was one other noticable oddity,,,,,,,,, no pennies,,,,,, just quarters, nickels and dimes. Hmm,,, this is definately not an accidental dump. And in 1972, a sum of $6.65 would have been a decent little savings I guess. Anyway, it picked up my spirits and gave me the drive to keep swinging.
Now, if you've read all of my dribbling,,, thanks,,,, and I have a question. Do silver coins cake up with hard crud like clad does?
-Jason
Most folks go their whole lives and never dig a hole like that one.
