DigToChina
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Made it out both today (just clad today) and yesterday to the park I feel like I’ve been at for years. I’m slowly making my way through an area outside of the soccer field with the last few hunts netting nothing but foil and clad. I was starting to get a little frustrated and question why I was bothering. The end of my hunt Saturday showed me why I’m covering this section at least once.
As I approached the end of my line and my hunt, I had a high signal. Ended up finding a Pandora bracelet clip. Looks like they still sell it as a Serpentine clip [emoji1303]
What is interesting about the area I found this is it was at the lip of a dip where they dug out part of the old field to put in the new playground. Within a couple of inches I hit the lip and immediately hit another high tone between 5-10cm. That doesn’t usually end with silver at that depth here but given they had scrapped some of the dirt off I was hopeful. A really nice 1938 Caribou said hi to me from the plug! This is silver coin #21 from this park.
I stood up and swung to the other side of my string (which happened to be further into the dip) and hit the exact same numbers and depth. Since I had just hit a quarter like this, I dug a large plug and using my fingers dug my first George V quarter and silver coin #22 from the park. He’s pretty worn so the date is hard to get but I definitely see a 192x. They didn’t mint these in 1922-1926 so there is only five years it could be and I think I see the middle of an eight under magnification.
I’m just old enough that I can’t help but repeat Looney Tunes in my head when I find coins that have George on them [emoji2371]
Happy hunting and stay safe!
Dig
As I approached the end of my line and my hunt, I had a high signal. Ended up finding a Pandora bracelet clip. Looks like they still sell it as a Serpentine clip [emoji1303]
What is interesting about the area I found this is it was at the lip of a dip where they dug out part of the old field to put in the new playground. Within a couple of inches I hit the lip and immediately hit another high tone between 5-10cm. That doesn’t usually end with silver at that depth here but given they had scrapped some of the dirt off I was hopeful. A really nice 1938 Caribou said hi to me from the plug! This is silver coin #21 from this park.
I stood up and swung to the other side of my string (which happened to be further into the dip) and hit the exact same numbers and depth. Since I had just hit a quarter like this, I dug a large plug and using my fingers dug my first George V quarter and silver coin #22 from the park. He’s pretty worn so the date is hard to get but I definitely see a 192x. They didn’t mint these in 1922-1926 so there is only five years it could be and I think I see the middle of an eight under magnification.
I’m just old enough that I can’t help but repeat Looney Tunes in my head when I find coins that have George on them [emoji2371]
Happy hunting and stay safe!
Dig
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