Back to the Zoo!!

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Got back to the old zoo where I found my walker and a nice token on Sunday, today didn't disappoint either. First good hit was the token from Sweetwater Tx, the other token from Sunday was from Cal. I haven't had a chance to research the one I found today. The slick looking thing is a quarter that looks like it had been put on the railroad track which run beside the zoo. I was running the 6" coil on the CTX, the ground is polluted with iron tones on every swing when I got a nice high, out pops a rosie from 6" surrounded by iron, I love that small coil. The V-nickle was an eyeball find, sitting right on top of the ground, that makes 1-V and 2 silvers I've found here on top of the ground. They must have moved the dirt around in this location because the rosie wasn't that far from where I found the nickle. not sure what the other 2 things are, the ball rang up as 12-44, but, is way too light for silver, the blob rang up at 12-39, and could be silver, just not certain. I had to hunt faster than I wanted because of time constraints, but, I'll be back!!
 

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Awesome stuff! Are you finding this in the old caged areas? I would think people would throw coins at the animals?
 

Awesome stuff! Are you finding this in the old caged areas? I would think people would throw coins at the animals?


No, these are in the open areas, a buddy of mine got to hunt inside one of the cages years ago, it was a gold mine in old coins he said
 

Good looking finds!
 

Nice finds. Lol, I found 2 IHC yesterday and one of them was right on top of the ground. At our courthouse.
 

The ZOO has been very good to you. Is the smashed quarter clad or silver? I have dug a smashed penny from the rails once. I used to enjoy taping pennies to the ICRR back in the 60's. Nice hunting once again.:icon_thumright:
 

The ZOO has been very good to you. Is the smashed quarter clad or silver? I have dug a smashed penny from the rails once. I used to enjoy taping pennies to the ICRR back in the 60's. Nice hunting once again.:icon_thumright:

This zoo has been giving up the goods since I started hunting it in 1999, it comes in spurts for some reason :) The quarter is clad(boo), that's ok, always neat to find oddball stuff.
 

NICE ZOO FINDS...
 

Wow, talk about never hunted out. That's a lot of time at that site. Congrats on continuing to pull them out! And good ones too! :notworthy:
 

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