1943-D Quarter ~ 1919 Merc dime ~ 1910-S Wheat cent ~ more!

[oddcoins]

I took a trip up north to visit my sister for the weekend. She lives in Lake Oswego Oregon. On Saturday I had her drop my off at Mt. Tabor park in S.E. Portland so I could do some detecting while she took my two daughters to the mall for a day of shopping. After an hour on Mt. Tabor I had only dug a clad dime, a nickel and a couple modern cents, so I decided to walk down into the neighbor hoods to do some curb hunting. Before I left the park I found a black knife sheath on the ground and I picked it up ~ inside was a nice leatherman type multi-purpose tool! SCORE!!

Then when I was detecting the curbs I found a strip of dirt with no grass growning in it between a the fence of a parking lot and the side walk ~ at the corner of the street the side walk had "CITY OF PORTLAND 1916" stamped in it. The first target dug was a 1917-S Wheat cent, then a 1943-D Silver quarter, then a 1919 Mercury dime, then a 1910-S Wheat cent! Obviously no one had ever metal detected this strip before! After several times going over the strip I decided to move on ~ I think I cleaned it out pretty good. I snapped pictures of the silver 25c & Merc dime with my cell phone camera while they were still in the dirt before I plucked them up!

At the end of the day I ended up with a couple clad quarters, five clad dimes, two nickels, 36 memorial cents and six more wheat cents ~ 1940-S, 1944, 1951-S, 1953-S, 1955-D, & 1958-D.

Thanks for looking!
Neil (oddcoins)

 

[BlackX]

Woah, nice day!

Pretty cool that the date was formed into the sidewalk. Wish everyone would do that!

(That's a scary pic.)

_Rich_

 

[KirkTN]

Nice silver and really sharp date on the wheat!

 

[topdog]

Very nice finds, thanks for sharing.

 

[halfdime]

Nice finds; it's always great to find a virgin site!

 

[Mac232]

ice finds , cool leatherman .

 

[Mac232]

Nice

 

[weasel606]

great finds ! thats one heck of a hunt congrats

 

[oddcoins]

Woah, nice day!

Pretty cool that the date was formed into the sidewalk. Wish everyone would do that!

(That's a scary pic.)

_Rich_

Yeah, there were several different names & dates formed into the sidewalks all over that neighborhood! In front of houses there'd be the families' last name and a date ~ the earliest I saw was 1903. VERY COOL!!

 

[wyattrr]

Great Digs...High Fives for the 1910s wheatie...Nice Scores on the Silver...HH

 

[Fisher]

That's some "oddcoins" to find on a curb. lol
Congrats on the nice finds!
HH

 

[john37115]

You got the idea send the girls to the mall & escape with your detecta. You got a knack for finding them oldies thats for sure. CONGRATS Oddcoins

 

[kippero]

fun day detecting thanks for trying to get vel to shovel me off a spot to detect but it is still deep. i might can go end of april uuggg we had a good time with them visiting sure helped to break up the winter blues thanks kippero

 

[Natman]

Ya did good! WTG

Nat

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Nice finds, have to love that medium silver.

Keep @ it and HH!!

 

[waseeker]

Nice finds. WTG & HH

 

[lockman209]

Way too go on those finds

 

[oddcoins]

fun day detecting thanks for trying to get vel to shovel me off a spot to detect but it is still deep. i might can go end of april uuggg we had a good time with them visiting sure helped to break up the winter blues thanks kippero

I wish that dang snow would clear out for you! Better yet ~ move over here! LOL