coinman123
Silver Member
Hello guys! I was finally able to metal detect again now that the snow was gone. The first place that I went to was just in the woods right behind my house, which I have hunted heavily in the past. It was once the farm fields that belonged to my house, which was built in around the 1740's. I used to be able to find three or four early flat buttons every couple hours or so there, not bad for a place right outside your front door. I didn't find anything there today though. I then called it a day and started to walk back to the house with my metal detector. I decided though, just for fun, I would check the little gravel patch right in front of the entrance to of where an early 1900's shed was. The shed accidentally got knocked last year after a man we hired to remove trees accidentally dropped a tree on it 
. I was surprised to get a pretty nice hit among all the iron, less than one inch deep. I barely had to dig before the dime was out of the hole. I picked it up, and saw the reverse first. The reverse was silver colored, but a little dark, I immediately assumed that it was modern dime with little corrosion. I looked at the edge when flipping it over and noticed it was silver, then I looked at the date on the front, 1946! I was surprised finding a silver less than an inch deep in the sandy gravel. I then moved a little farther down, to hard packed rocks and dirt. I got another surface signal, a 1913 wheat penny. It got dark so I went inside after that. At 5pm today when I got home I went back out, and found another two wheat pennies, another 1913 and a 1918 (which I hit with the shovel). I also found a thin iron buckle, and an old pocket knife in the grass in the side yard (only good thing I have ever found there). I am still disappointed that all the grass around the house has been heavily hunted by people who either lived before us, or were given permission. At least no one thought to check around the gravel though, and I was able to find my first silver of the year, and my first silver Roosevelt dime ever!
. I was surprised to get a pretty nice hit among all the iron, less than one inch deep. I barely had to dig before the dime was out of the hole. I picked it up, and saw the reverse first. The reverse was silver colored, but a little dark, I immediately assumed that it was modern dime with little corrosion. I looked at the edge when flipping it over and noticed it was silver, then I looked at the date on the front, 1946! I was surprised finding a silver less than an inch deep in the sandy gravel. I then moved a little farther down, to hard packed rocks and dirt. I got another surface signal, a 1913 wheat penny. It got dark so I went inside after that. At 5pm today when I got home I went back out, and found another two wheat pennies, another 1913 and a 1918 (which I hit with the shovel). I also found a thin iron buckle, and an old pocket knife in the grass in the side yard (only good thing I have ever found there). I am still disappointed that all the grass around the house has been heavily hunted by people who either lived before us, or were given permission. At least no one thought to check around the gravel though, and I was able to find my first silver of the year, and my first silver Roosevelt dime ever!
Last edited:
Upvote
14
