Professor of Engineering
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Hello everyone,
It was a fairly nice day, so after teaching I went on a much needed hunt! On Campus, there is a small creek (I could easily jump over) that has some history associated with it. The original area was once an old farm with no remains to be seen. I thought that creek banks would be a fun area to work, although very muddy. I began just walking on the edge on the creek, today swinging the AT Pro with the small 5” x 8” coil. After digging a bunch of high conductor can junk (kids partying in area), I got a solid 92 about 3 inches down in the mud water transition. I poked the shovel in and popped out a large ball of mud, checking the hole determined it was in the plug. I stuck the pin pointer in the ball of mud and found it was in the center, and carefully broke the plug in half with my hand digger exposing a round black object. It turned out to be a 1922 silver peace dollar, my first! Of course, I must have scratched the reverse of the coin with my digger, “par for the course”. I was thinking of cleaning the coin, but think it has more character black and I usually do not clean my coins…they are what they are!
I plan on returning to the creek/wooded area to “see” what other goodies are hiding.
Thank you for looking,
GL & HH
Doc
It was a fairly nice day, so after teaching I went on a much needed hunt! On Campus, there is a small creek (I could easily jump over) that has some history associated with it. The original area was once an old farm with no remains to be seen. I thought that creek banks would be a fun area to work, although very muddy. I began just walking on the edge on the creek, today swinging the AT Pro with the small 5” x 8” coil. After digging a bunch of high conductor can junk (kids partying in area), I got a solid 92 about 3 inches down in the mud water transition. I poked the shovel in and popped out a large ball of mud, checking the hole determined it was in the plug. I stuck the pin pointer in the ball of mud and found it was in the center, and carefully broke the plug in half with my hand digger exposing a round black object. It turned out to be a 1922 silver peace dollar, my first! Of course, I must have scratched the reverse of the coin with my digger, “par for the course”. I was thinking of cleaning the coin, but think it has more character black and I usually do not clean my coins…they are what they are!
I plan on returning to the creek/wooded area to “see” what other goodies are hiding.
Thank you for looking,
GL & HH
Doc
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It's your coin, but I'd do the backing soda an Aluminum foil treatment on that beauty.
