Turtleman
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Everyone,
I'm in graduate school and each time I leave the house with the detector my wife and I have a running joke that if I find a 1916-D Mercury we can finish grad school debt free.
Well, today I went to the oldest park in the city (which I have nicknamed "Pocket Spill Park" because almost all the clad found there is found in pocket spills...probably courtesy of the homeless people who nap there) which dates to the early 1910's. I studied for 50 minutes each hour, then took a 10 minute break to detect. I got about an hour of detecting in, mostly in the grass but also a little on the tot lot.
I was searching in the grass when my Ace 250 signaled a find that bounced back and forth from penny to quarter (the mineralized soil here has a heyday with my Ace on a regular basis). My experience is that signals like this often mean the signal is some junk that mimics the shape of a coin or else it is a dissolving zinc penny. However, I recently found a silver cross in that park that did the same thing so out of curiousity I dug it, hoping for a .925 ring. About five inches down I found what is pictured below...perhaps my 1916-D but I'll never know because the mint mark is worn off. Like I said at the top...it won't pay for grad school but it sure made me smile. It was attached to a piece of fishing line but the line tore as I removed the Mercury from the soil. I threw the line away at the park.
Also found:
1 Sacagewea
7 quarters
12 dimes
5 nickels
41 pennies
Total $: 4.61
I've included the cross I found from before on this post.
Hope it has been a good day for all and if not, hope the picture makes you smile.
Turtleman
I'm in graduate school and each time I leave the house with the detector my wife and I have a running joke that if I find a 1916-D Mercury we can finish grad school debt free.
Well, today I went to the oldest park in the city (which I have nicknamed "Pocket Spill Park" because almost all the clad found there is found in pocket spills...probably courtesy of the homeless people who nap there) which dates to the early 1910's. I studied for 50 minutes each hour, then took a 10 minute break to detect. I got about an hour of detecting in, mostly in the grass but also a little on the tot lot.
I was searching in the grass when my Ace 250 signaled a find that bounced back and forth from penny to quarter (the mineralized soil here has a heyday with my Ace on a regular basis). My experience is that signals like this often mean the signal is some junk that mimics the shape of a coin or else it is a dissolving zinc penny. However, I recently found a silver cross in that park that did the same thing so out of curiousity I dug it, hoping for a .925 ring. About five inches down I found what is pictured below...perhaps my 1916-D but I'll never know because the mint mark is worn off. Like I said at the top...it won't pay for grad school but it sure made me smile. It was attached to a piece of fishing line but the line tore as I removed the Mercury from the soil. I threw the line away at the park.
Also found:
1 Sacagewea
7 quarters
12 dimes
5 nickels
41 pennies
Total $: 4.61
I've included the cross I found from before on this post.
Hope it has been a good day for all and if not, hope the picture makes you smile.
Turtleman
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