Mayo South Elgin
Sr. Member
Took my friend Bob who is visiting from Montana, over to a local sidewalk tear out and then over to Gander without a mountain - aka goose poo flats...
At the sidewalk tear out, we weren't having much luck finding anything old.
We did manage to attract two young leeches (neighborhood kids) that were all too willing to look in the hole, ask if I found it yet, ask if they could dig, eagerly told me the numbers on my Etrac in case that would help find something... I know they were just being kids but at times they were actually getting in the way. I was tempted to pretend to dig up something and give it to them, but usually about the time my patience was wearing thin, they would move over to my friend Bob for a while. This gave me just the break I needed to concentrate on the signal that produced a first for me.
Finally I got a nice high tone, slightly broken in one direction, but it was leading me to believe it was silver so I thought I better dig before the kids came back and made me lose concentration and run the risk of damaging the coin while digging. About 5 inches down I got the first 1891 quarter I have ever found - in fact the only quarter in the 1800's I have ever found. Is this what you call a seated? The face is in better shape than the back as you'll see from the photo. After getting it out of the hole, I left most of the dirt on it and stuck it in my pocket, and washed it off with water at my truck when we left.
Bob got a few clad coins, I got some clad and a top of possibly a whiskey bottle with a strange metal cap that almost looked like lead. What was strange about it was there was an opening in the top of the metal cap as if a cork had gone in the mouth of the bottle.
Over at goose poo flats - and we had a fly-by while detecting... Bob looks over at me thinking I was making fake goose noises, and I just point towards the sky and he cracks up. I guess he didn't believe there really were geese in the area. So we're getting the usual plethora of signals - mostly clad mems, dimes, quarters, and the occasional nickel. So far nothing old until I get a nice high tone sound but this time the numbers were slightly different than the clad dime numbers. Ladies and gentlemen, we have silver! My first silver dime or silver anything at goose poo flats. Previously I had found a buffalo nickel so I still had hope there was more goodies. Mercury looks pretty crisp but something about that really black soil changes the color of most coins there. Water did not wash off the black streaks but I'll leave it the way it is rather than potentially cause more damage by cleaning.
Both the silver coins were mint marked S.
The previous hunt at the beach in Evanston - with the bumble bee - pictured is something probably from a vehicle but no clue if from truck or car or what function it performed. It looks like the knob could be slid up or down in a slot in the curved plate, and that would possibly lengthen or shorten the rod with the tube shape on the end. Any ideas? Also found a 1965 beach token - yes you had to pay to get onto certain beaches in Evanston - and you still do.
At the sidewalk tear out, we weren't having much luck finding anything old.
We did manage to attract two young leeches (neighborhood kids) that were all too willing to look in the hole, ask if I found it yet, ask if they could dig, eagerly told me the numbers on my Etrac in case that would help find something... I know they were just being kids but at times they were actually getting in the way. I was tempted to pretend to dig up something and give it to them, but usually about the time my patience was wearing thin, they would move over to my friend Bob for a while. This gave me just the break I needed to concentrate on the signal that produced a first for me.
Finally I got a nice high tone, slightly broken in one direction, but it was leading me to believe it was silver so I thought I better dig before the kids came back and made me lose concentration and run the risk of damaging the coin while digging. About 5 inches down I got the first 1891 quarter I have ever found - in fact the only quarter in the 1800's I have ever found. Is this what you call a seated? The face is in better shape than the back as you'll see from the photo. After getting it out of the hole, I left most of the dirt on it and stuck it in my pocket, and washed it off with water at my truck when we left.
Bob got a few clad coins, I got some clad and a top of possibly a whiskey bottle with a strange metal cap that almost looked like lead. What was strange about it was there was an opening in the top of the metal cap as if a cork had gone in the mouth of the bottle.
Over at goose poo flats - and we had a fly-by while detecting... Bob looks over at me thinking I was making fake goose noises, and I just point towards the sky and he cracks up. I guess he didn't believe there really were geese in the area. So we're getting the usual plethora of signals - mostly clad mems, dimes, quarters, and the occasional nickel. So far nothing old until I get a nice high tone sound but this time the numbers were slightly different than the clad dime numbers. Ladies and gentlemen, we have silver! My first silver dime or silver anything at goose poo flats. Previously I had found a buffalo nickel so I still had hope there was more goodies. Mercury looks pretty crisp but something about that really black soil changes the color of most coins there. Water did not wash off the black streaks but I'll leave it the way it is rather than potentially cause more damage by cleaning.
Both the silver coins were mint marked S.
The previous hunt at the beach in Evanston - with the bumble bee - pictured is something probably from a vehicle but no clue if from truck or car or what function it performed. It looks like the knob could be slid up or down in a slot in the curved plate, and that would possibly lengthen or shorten the rod with the tube shape on the end. Any ideas? Also found a 1965 beach token - yes you had to pay to get onto certain beaches in Evanston - and you still do.
) with you and Tim too.
