halfdime
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I began this morning at a house in the next block that shouted potential. I should have been skeptical, however, when the owner said he had brought in topsoil for the back. What that means here, usually, is that several inches of mostly clay has been dumped on top of the good old stuff, making digging much more difficult. I arrived to find that the grass was thick and long, compounding the difficulty. Life is too short to be stubborn, so I left and went to another house in the same block.
I was pulling clad and memorials mostly when I got a whisper; my effort was rewarded with an 1890 Indian head penny. Shortly afterward, I pulled a worn 18 wheat from the same little corner front yard. Time was running out on me when I got a solid 53 signal on my XLT. A 53 usually isn't solid, and is seldom a coin, but there was something different about this one. I dug, and was surprised to see a quarter sized disk at the bottom of the hole. At first I thought it was a token, and gently rubbed. I began to see the outline of Edward VII, so I knew it was early 20th century. Before too long, I could see the date and denomination: it was a 1906 large cent, from Canada. None of these coins are the prettiest, but they make an interesting trio and saved me from only finding a handful of modern pocket change. This same yard gave me a 1909VDB about a month ago, so I'll keep searching it; with these kinds of dates, there has to be a piece of silver lurking there somewhere!
I was pulling clad and memorials mostly when I got a whisper; my effort was rewarded with an 1890 Indian head penny. Shortly afterward, I pulled a worn 18 wheat from the same little corner front yard. Time was running out on me when I got a solid 53 signal on my XLT. A 53 usually isn't solid, and is seldom a coin, but there was something different about this one. I dug, and was surprised to see a quarter sized disk at the bottom of the hole. At first I thought it was a token, and gently rubbed. I began to see the outline of Edward VII, so I knew it was early 20th century. Before too long, I could see the date and denomination: it was a 1906 large cent, from Canada. None of these coins are the prettiest, but they make an interesting trio and saved me from only finding a handful of modern pocket change. This same yard gave me a 1909VDB about a month ago, so I'll keep searching it; with these kinds of dates, there has to be a piece of silver lurking there somewhere!
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