Weekend Road Trip yields Quarter Slam!!!, Indian Tribe, MUCH more...

Mike Moutray

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Headed East to NW Ohio and Northern Indiana to spend a weekend driving town to town and hunting sites I researched or hunted previously. 1st stop made the whole weekend! Hunting a town square in Somewhere, Ohio I pulled up a ton of signals, including a few big silver coins. I started with a 1942 Walker and then 4 Quarters - 1853 Seated, 1892O Barber, Slick Stander, and 1945 Washington for a Quarter Grand Slam!!! :headbang: :headbang: :headbang:
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I'm still stunned by the amazing amount of luck involved in that achievement!! Also found an 1867 2 Cent Piece, Barber Dimes, Mercs, Roosy dime, silver ring, a few Indians and other keepers! What a start to a Road Trip! This square had been hunted pretty good, but most of my targets came out of very minerallized and iron infested ground around 1 side and my Explorer did good sniffing them out.
Here's the finds from just this first site:

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I spent the rest of Saturday, Sunday, and Monday covering other sites and added many more goodies to the finds total. 3 days and 1,400 miles later I had a nice haul to tote home!

Here's the Tribe of 19 Indians including a key date 1867:

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This is the 20 pieces of silver found:

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Here's the other coins... 1867 2 cent piece, 63 wheats - one stamped with a Masonic logo - 4 V Nickels, a nice 1854-1904 50th anniversary Medal from U.S. Express Co.:
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Here's some other odds and ends and jewelry:
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Here's the grand total for the finds:
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Thanks for looking, take care and HH, Mike.
 

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nova

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That is some outstanding finds. I,m sure you will be on cloud Ohio for sometime.
 

dwatson4

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The TPA button you have there is from the "travelers protective association" founded in the late 1800's by a group of traveling salesmen looking to better improve safe working conditions for traveling salesmen. later garnering lodging benefits for their members. They later changed their logo a bit so it would not get confused with the parent teacher assn. now the focus on helping children

http://www.tpahq.org/detailedhistory.html

I found a watch fob with their logo from 1923 the logo was changed sometime after that. If the p is over the t and a its pre logo change

nice haul btw
 

grasshopper

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holy crap!! that was quite the road trip! more indians than I find all year...
 

oddcoins

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WOW ~ that's big batch of treasures there! WOOHOO!!! Very exciting! Congrat's man!
 

gold nuggets

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Great hunt Mike.......WTG! :icon_thumleft:
Road trips like that are so
much fun.....congratulations.
Gold Nuggets :hello:
 

N.J.THer

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Congrats...very cool on the quarter grand slam.

NJ
 

Steve in PA

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That's a heck of a haul and I like the way the soil treated those Indian Heads!
 

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Mike Moutray

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dwatson4 said:
The TPA button you have there is from the "travelers protective association" founded in the late 1800's by a group of traveling salesmen looking to better improve safe working conditions for traveling salesmen. later garnering lodging benefits for their members. They later changed their logo a bit so it would not get confused with the parent teacher assn. now the focus on helping children

http://www.tpahq.org/detailedhistory.html

I found a watch fob with their logo from 1923 the logo was changed sometime after that. If the p is over the t and a its pre logo change

nice haul btw


Thanks for that info! HH, Mike.
 

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