oknorom
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hi all,
hit the L.A. barrio with the crew yesterday. hunted with staydetuned, dana point val, captn SE and soundsgood. we all met at a new barrio park that only soundsgood has been to. i think the last time he had been there was '75. he mentioned some great old coins that he found there back then, and we were all excited to put our coils to the soil and get some of our own.
jayson, soundsgood and i started hunting around 7:30 am. val and dan were due to arrive in a short while. within 45 minutes i had three rosies in my pocket and a few wheats. these rosies in this particular area were not really deep, maybe 4-5 inches. we eventually made our way to the opposite end of the park, dodging sprinklers as we hunted. some areas were pretty wet. i personally would rather hunt a dry park over a wet one anyday, despite what is said about the wetness adding depth. but i digress.
i hunted around and managed another silver coin, a '17 merc in decent shape. probably dropped in the '20's. two minutes later i dug up a nice silver ring. by now, dan and val had shown up and joined the hunt. dan's first dug target was a wheat; val's was a '41 washington. i thought to myself, 'this day is going to be alright!' it was then my stomach started SCREAMING at me. i was so hungry that i started hoping that the next target i dug was going to be a double cheeseburger. so i left and picked up sandwiches for my partners in crime.when i returned with a bagful of drinks and subway sandwiches, dan informed me that he had just found two mercs and jayson said that he had found a rosie. i smiled and congratulated. then i ate. and ate and ate.
after lunch i powered up the explorer and started hunting again, finding two wheats right off the bat. then i got a signal that sounded decent. it was deep, and was not super high in tone. it wasn't terribly repeatable either. val listened to it and said, "it sounds low...but it's deep. maybe a war nickel." as he walked away i said, "or an indian head" as i knelt down and prepared to dig. eight inches later i was holding a green '04 IH! the day just kept getting better and better. or so i thought...
a few miniutes after the IH i noticed a woman standing nearby on her cell phone. for some reason i immediately thought she was calling the police on us. turns out, she worked with the maintenence dept. and was calling her supervisor. the supervisor shows up and the two of them talk by the curb of the street for about ten minutes, not saying one word to us. next thing you know, the PO PO rolls up in their police SUV and say they had a complaint and that we have to leave. the cops were cool, but they said they just had to take action since a complaint was made. so we left.
we hit another park somewhat nearby that produced the '27 walker for dan. i got three wheats there and no silver. val got two rosies and some wheats, but this park is tough. dan called it a day, and val, jayson and myself decided to end the day back at the barrio park we all hit weeks ago. so we make the short drive to the other park and start hunting with about an hour of daylight left. i focus on the area that produced barbers and indians for dan and jayson in the last cople weeks. it's pounded but i was just going slow listening for a peep of anything. then, just as it was getting dark i got my peep. it was a squishy, mushy mess of a signal that was high enough in tone, but it wasn't a tight signal. i let jayson listen and he said it sounded irony. then he listened a bit more and said maybe it was a deep keeper with trash around it. i started digging and at around eight inches of hard packed clay i pop out a silver coin. i yell at jayson "silver!" and get up to do a dance. but then i thought, 'i better check to see what that is- it's probably gonna be old since it was in this area and so deep. so i take a second look and yep, BARBER, baby! 1900 s. details looked sharp under the dirt. i decided not to clean it or wipe it right away. instead i waited 'til i got home to rinse it off.
turns out it's the best detailed barber i've ever dug. the back still has mint luster. the front has some darkness on it, but it has , without a doubt, full liberty visible. every letter.
so, despite the cops booting us out, it turned out to be a great day in the 'hood. thanks for reading.
wayne, great to meet you.
HH,
Mike
hit the L.A. barrio with the crew yesterday. hunted with staydetuned, dana point val, captn SE and soundsgood. we all met at a new barrio park that only soundsgood has been to. i think the last time he had been there was '75. he mentioned some great old coins that he found there back then, and we were all excited to put our coils to the soil and get some of our own.
jayson, soundsgood and i started hunting around 7:30 am. val and dan were due to arrive in a short while. within 45 minutes i had three rosies in my pocket and a few wheats. these rosies in this particular area were not really deep, maybe 4-5 inches. we eventually made our way to the opposite end of the park, dodging sprinklers as we hunted. some areas were pretty wet. i personally would rather hunt a dry park over a wet one anyday, despite what is said about the wetness adding depth. but i digress.
i hunted around and managed another silver coin, a '17 merc in decent shape. probably dropped in the '20's. two minutes later i dug up a nice silver ring. by now, dan and val had shown up and joined the hunt. dan's first dug target was a wheat; val's was a '41 washington. i thought to myself, 'this day is going to be alright!' it was then my stomach started SCREAMING at me. i was so hungry that i started hoping that the next target i dug was going to be a double cheeseburger. so i left and picked up sandwiches for my partners in crime.when i returned with a bagful of drinks and subway sandwiches, dan informed me that he had just found two mercs and jayson said that he had found a rosie. i smiled and congratulated. then i ate. and ate and ate.
after lunch i powered up the explorer and started hunting again, finding two wheats right off the bat. then i got a signal that sounded decent. it was deep, and was not super high in tone. it wasn't terribly repeatable either. val listened to it and said, "it sounds low...but it's deep. maybe a war nickel." as he walked away i said, "or an indian head" as i knelt down and prepared to dig. eight inches later i was holding a green '04 IH! the day just kept getting better and better. or so i thought...
a few miniutes after the IH i noticed a woman standing nearby on her cell phone. for some reason i immediately thought she was calling the police on us. turns out, she worked with the maintenence dept. and was calling her supervisor. the supervisor shows up and the two of them talk by the curb of the street for about ten minutes, not saying one word to us. next thing you know, the PO PO rolls up in their police SUV and say they had a complaint and that we have to leave. the cops were cool, but they said they just had to take action since a complaint was made. so we left.
we hit another park somewhat nearby that produced the '27 walker for dan. i got three wheats there and no silver. val got two rosies and some wheats, but this park is tough. dan called it a day, and val, jayson and myself decided to end the day back at the barrio park we all hit weeks ago. so we make the short drive to the other park and start hunting with about an hour of daylight left. i focus on the area that produced barbers and indians for dan and jayson in the last cople weeks. it's pounded but i was just going slow listening for a peep of anything. then, just as it was getting dark i got my peep. it was a squishy, mushy mess of a signal that was high enough in tone, but it wasn't a tight signal. i let jayson listen and he said it sounded irony. then he listened a bit more and said maybe it was a deep keeper with trash around it. i started digging and at around eight inches of hard packed clay i pop out a silver coin. i yell at jayson "silver!" and get up to do a dance. but then i thought, 'i better check to see what that is- it's probably gonna be old since it was in this area and so deep. so i take a second look and yep, BARBER, baby! 1900 s. details looked sharp under the dirt. i decided not to clean it or wipe it right away. instead i waited 'til i got home to rinse it off.
turns out it's the best detailed barber i've ever dug. the back still has mint luster. the front has some darkness on it, but it has , without a doubt, full liberty visible. every letter.
so, despite the cops booting us out, it turned out to be a great day in the 'hood. thanks for reading.
wayne, great to meet you.
HH,
Mike
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I would call the cops too for taking all the wilver and Wheaties in the western half of the United States. 
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