Fourman110
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- Cedar Rapids IA area
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1 Stinkin' Penny .......YA!!!
It rained finally yesterday leading me to contemplate how much better mding would be. But alas, it was golf league night. Finished golf early, staying for a beverage or two, when it dawned on me that I still have about 20 minutes of daylight I was wasting. At breakneck speed I pulled into the old city owned lot.
From what I can tell, this place had a house and buildings on it since at least 1930 ( IA has aerial photos of the whole state starting in 1930). I've found some interesting things here including the mandatory 1930's Palmolive bar soap token and a part to an Elgin watch (w/serial number) I traced back to 1890.
Despite the rain, the soil was still really dry. The grass and weeds must have inhaled all of it. That's not good..... Then I found nothing..... Oh a little piece of a can that somehow ran a perfect 50 on my AT Pro, but I wasn't getting anything good ringing up. 10 minutes after I arrive it starts getting dark. 10 minutes later it's getting too dark to read the digits on the machine so I head to the beaconing street light in the corner of the lot (very nice of the city to help me metal detect like that).
Under the light the only thing in my head was I'm not going to get skunked, I'm not going to get skunked. Finally I get a perfect zincoln number. Crap! At least I didn't get skunked, so I tossed the memorial in my pocket, shove everything in the car, and drive off trying to think of a plausible excuse to my bride for being so late.
Half way home with a feeble excuse still eluding me, I realized subconsciously my mind was struggling with the penny. It didn't feel like a zincoln but it rang up with a zincoln number. Popping the dome light on I pulled the coin out and rubbed it a little, revealing there was a ring of wheat on the outer edge.... Sweet, a wheatie. A few blocks later and still a little tired out, it still didn't make sense. Since when does a wheat penny = a 75 on VDI.
Arriving home and running it under the faucets he wheat around the edge turned to ivy, revealing a worn 1900 indian head penny. Freakin' sweet!
Moral of the story.... Sometimes when you only find one thing, it's a keeper. Keep at it.
It rained finally yesterday leading me to contemplate how much better mding would be. But alas, it was golf league night. Finished golf early, staying for a beverage or two, when it dawned on me that I still have about 20 minutes of daylight I was wasting. At breakneck speed I pulled into the old city owned lot.
From what I can tell, this place had a house and buildings on it since at least 1930 ( IA has aerial photos of the whole state starting in 1930). I've found some interesting things here including the mandatory 1930's Palmolive bar soap token and a part to an Elgin watch (w/serial number) I traced back to 1890.
Despite the rain, the soil was still really dry. The grass and weeds must have inhaled all of it. That's not good..... Then I found nothing..... Oh a little piece of a can that somehow ran a perfect 50 on my AT Pro, but I wasn't getting anything good ringing up. 10 minutes after I arrive it starts getting dark. 10 minutes later it's getting too dark to read the digits on the machine so I head to the beaconing street light in the corner of the lot (very nice of the city to help me metal detect like that).
Under the light the only thing in my head was I'm not going to get skunked, I'm not going to get skunked. Finally I get a perfect zincoln number. Crap! At least I didn't get skunked, so I tossed the memorial in my pocket, shove everything in the car, and drive off trying to think of a plausible excuse to my bride for being so late.
Half way home with a feeble excuse still eluding me, I realized subconsciously my mind was struggling with the penny. It didn't feel like a zincoln but it rang up with a zincoln number. Popping the dome light on I pulled the coin out and rubbed it a little, revealing there was a ring of wheat on the outer edge.... Sweet, a wheatie. A few blocks later and still a little tired out, it still didn't make sense. Since when does a wheat penny = a 75 on VDI.
Arriving home and running it under the faucets he wheat around the edge turned to ivy, revealing a worn 1900 indian head penny. Freakin' sweet!
Moral of the story.... Sometimes when you only find one thing, it's a keeper. Keep at it.
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