Big Scrape and Construction in S.F. Park! Gold And Silver!

[Cool Hand Fluke]

I drove by this park last night with my hunting partner Ray around 6 pm and saw a big dozer scrape in a old San Francisco park! I told Ray that I would be there as soon as I could on Sunday. Today I hunted it! An area about the size of tow baseball fields had about 2 or 3 inches scraped off, all the grass was gone! As soon as I arrived on the field I saw hols all over the place! Someone else with a detector hit the whole area earlier in the week. Not many coins signals remained, I only found a few clads the first 30 minutes. So I decided to dig it all! All pulltabs, foil, nickels, and just about everything except zinc pennies. I started to get numerous pulltab/nickel readings. One of the pulltab reading turned out to be a sterling silver chain with sterling pendant! It was about 3 inches deep! A few minutes later I dug a buffalo nickel, it was the first of four buffalo nickels for the day! Later another pulltab reading turned out to be a 10K gold pendant with 5 diamonds and a ruby attached to a silver chain! It's a 30 year service award from Lockheed Corp.! I dug 5 wheat pennies and got a foil reading. It was not foil! It was a 1943-S silver nickel! My only silver dime was a 1936-S mercury! I kept going, after 5 hours I received probably my 100th pulltab reading! ( I dug them all today!) Four inches down was a United States Naval Academy Class of 1947 14K Gold Ring!!!! What a day! Silver and Gold!

 

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[Roland58]

Pics......pics........must have pics!!!! 'Grats on a great day!

 

[Cool Hand Fluke]

Pics of scrape finds!

 

[maipenrai]

nice finds! and yeah, you do blend in with that hard hat!!

 

[vanoldschool]

sweet!! good idea with the hard hat, i think i may even get an orange vest

 

[ivan salis]

love the cross.

 

[spitfire55]

 

[davest]

those are some great finds. I like the medallion that says "keep looking" although the gold is nice too.

 

[jb58]

some great finds and pics! congrats!!

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Those are some incredible finds Cool Hand Fluke!

I really like the United States Naval Academy Class of 1947 14K Gold Ring!

But this chain & cross are truly amazing!

Dave

 

[Deno]

Those are some nice finds Fluke, I really like the ring.

Don't ever let the fact someone else has hit a spot scare you off.

Some of my best finds have come from hunted out spots.

I have a little trick for you on the 43 silver nickel if you have hunting company. As soon as you see
it's a silver nickel in the hole tell your company that your detector can tell you the date of
a coin, odds are it will be a 43. I have done this twice with great results. You wave your
detector over the coin and then explain the detector says it's a 43, then you have them get
it out of the hole and clean it. I have done this twice and the people were amazed until I told
them the truth.

 

[calisdad]

Nice.

You know it seems to me there must be a schedule for these things. It might pay to go down to Parks and Rec and ask if they have any more field rehab projects on the calendar.

 

[Mortifercain]

haha im totally getting a hard hat love it!!!

 

[fistfulladirt]

Totally awesome finds, glad you could get there and save 'em!

 

[pl8man]

Sweet finds !

 

[aka da Prof]

as we all know--'no place is ever hunted out'-- keep hitting it and post some more!!!

 

[Diver_Down]

The elongated cent might carry a premium to collectors. There are niche coin collecting clubs that only collect elongated(s). Nice digs.

 

[Oilfield Diver]

The hardhat - very nice touch. Hilarious pic. It works too. I have now added one of my offshore hats to my detecting gear. That pic should be banner.. Thanks Cool Hand..!

 

[jewelerguy]

awesome hunt! love that ring for sure

 

[Ted Mac]

Great finds, congrats. Im going to start wearing a hard hat everywhere. You really do look official.