below average week-end

[coiny]

So today I went to a place where they just tore down a 50 or 60 year old school. I had been looking forward to it all week. Unfortunately, I hardly found anything. I saw what looked like evidence that someone else had been there recently. Perhaps I should have hit that field last week-end. I did find a 1929 wheatie.

I was going to go to a school playground area (I love the bark chips!) but decided to hit one of my city’s older parks. I am on a quest for a standing liberty quarter. I was finding some clad, mostly dimes, which I don’t mind because they add up quick. I think I find more dimes than anything else. Anyway, I found a 1950 wheat and a 1956 wheat in this one area so I was getting excited. I searched for hours but found no silver, not even a rosie. I did get fooled by a couple of tokens. I saw the back and could see a shield so for a moment my heart was racing but I quickly realized it was nothing. They are not even Chuck E Cheese tokens. At least my son can use those.

So I went home, thinking I was finished for the day. As I was taking care of some other business, I saw a vacant lot in an older part of town. I decided to give it one more go. So, I hit the ground and almost immediately I noticed little holes dug every so often. DARN! Someone had beat me to it again! I decided to give it a try anyway but then I got a phone call and had to return home, this time with only the top spike to an iron fence.

My total for today is $2.27. No silver or gold. I had fun though. I had a good week-end last week and I know that not every hunt can be good. I am remaining positive by reminding myself that every lousy hunt means I am closer to another jackpot day, like I had back in December. Not every hunt can be a lousy hunt.

I am envious of you guys in Ohio. There seem to be all kinds of silver coins up there. I may have to drive up there this summer just so I can cross some coins off of my list, like an SLQ and a walking liberty half.

One other thing, almost all of my silver coins have been found under big oak trees. Has anyone else noticed anything similar? I hunt all over the place, including the beach sometimes, but 95% of the silver coins I have found were under big oak trees specifically.

 

[Davers]

I know how you feel ,I hit 2 home sites built in the 1930s today . At the first the front yard was all gravel & fill dirt [ looked as if a water mane busted some years ago and the back yard was all trash and over grown, the 2ed was a larger home with 2 of those oak's you speak of one had been cut down the stump was larger than a semi's tire prob/ larger I dug 1 wheat at its base then for 2 hrs dug many small pieces of copper pipe & fittings then 1 clad dime 3 brass cents 1 nickel then 4 more wheat cents in a small area around the walkway [ have not cleaned the wheats yet = no dates] .I kept telling myself 1 silver and Id be happy but it never came, any how the wheat cents were better than nothing + a couple other doo dads. Now its back to relic hunting & lots of cleaning dug items this week . GOOD LUCK WILL RETURN!! Later

 

[JohnnyMac]

People liked to sit under big ol oak trees to stay cool..I remember my mom and our neighbor siting under her old oak drinkin iced tea all summer long telling gossip about everybody on the block..lol

 

[Jarl]

Don't give up on already dug sites. Sometimes the good stuff likes to hide, even from the guy before you. And I'll bet you that those 'early birds' will come back there themselves too...over the same holes more than once. Be strategic and get what they don't. It's out there.

 

[vpnavy]

You still had a few nice finds coiny!