jgas
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Got permission to hunt a 1904 Circa home that has a pretty small front and side yard. No back yard here. It has an old carriage house that is an apartment. The man that lives here said that he had 5 kids grow up here and no one has hunted it since he has lived here for 40 years. So that perked me and Don up a bit.
So we arrived early in the morning and got started near the street. Of course we recovered the usual clad pennies marred by salt and wheel corrosion. Pretty much trashed out coins. Then it was on to the front yard. My ears got blasted by a great quarter/fifty cent signal that was 4 inches deep. The heart pumped only to discover an older sprinkler system. All brass and copper fittings. These would prove troublesome all over the yard. These have not been used in years. I told the owner that he had a thousand dollars in scrap under that dirt. He laughed and said goodluck with the rest of the hunt.
We continued on up into the yard to locate some clad coins and a couple nickles. Finally found a 50's wheatie. We were getting older stuff as time went by. I located a religious medallion. A cross made of what I think is pot metal. It may have some silver plating to it but not much. It is quite heavy. Then found an Orchestra District Festival medal. Pretty cool find. Still more and more of those dreaded sprinkler heads. Then it was off to the side yard that looks great as far as a play area for all of his kids. We started popping out wheaties after wheaties. In fact we located several pocket spills which we had to keep going over with the coils several times. They seemed to be growing in the holes as we were digging. Two different plugs revealed 7 wheats and 5 wheats respectively. Then I got a pocket spill that kept giving me wheats in the 1940's and still another great silver sound in my headphones. Talk about a rush...then out popped a 1936 mercury. I dinged it a little bit with my blade. Oh well it was the only silver of the day. All in all we took 32 wheats( oldest dating to 1910). A whole bunch of clad pennies, nickles and dimes and a couple quarters. It turned out to be a very productive day that filled a couple more open spots in my ever growing wheat collection. Getting closer to the 1909 vdb...I hope..The pics are not great but they are pics..HH jgas
So we arrived early in the morning and got started near the street. Of course we recovered the usual clad pennies marred by salt and wheel corrosion. Pretty much trashed out coins. Then it was on to the front yard. My ears got blasted by a great quarter/fifty cent signal that was 4 inches deep. The heart pumped only to discover an older sprinkler system. All brass and copper fittings. These would prove troublesome all over the yard. These have not been used in years. I told the owner that he had a thousand dollars in scrap under that dirt. He laughed and said goodluck with the rest of the hunt.
We continued on up into the yard to locate some clad coins and a couple nickles. Finally found a 50's wheatie. We were getting older stuff as time went by. I located a religious medallion. A cross made of what I think is pot metal. It may have some silver plating to it but not much. It is quite heavy. Then found an Orchestra District Festival medal. Pretty cool find. Still more and more of those dreaded sprinkler heads. Then it was off to the side yard that looks great as far as a play area for all of his kids. We started popping out wheaties after wheaties. In fact we located several pocket spills which we had to keep going over with the coils several times. They seemed to be growing in the holes as we were digging. Two different plugs revealed 7 wheats and 5 wheats respectively. Then I got a pocket spill that kept giving me wheats in the 1940's and still another great silver sound in my headphones. Talk about a rush...then out popped a 1936 mercury. I dinged it a little bit with my blade. Oh well it was the only silver of the day. All in all we took 32 wheats( oldest dating to 1910). A whole bunch of clad pennies, nickles and dimes and a couple quarters. It turned out to be a very productive day that filled a couple more open spots in my ever growing wheat collection. Getting closer to the 1909 vdb...I hope..The pics are not great but they are pics..HH jgas
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