Bomgoat
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Took the day off from work today and decided to head to an old abandoned house I have had my eye on. I get to the old house at about 10 am and noticed an older lady outside at the house next door. I walk over to her and ask if she knew who the owner of the old house was and she said that she owned it. I asked if it would be alright if I could medal detect around the old yard and she said that it would be no problem and that she had two sons who would come every now and then to medal detect at the old house and that they never found much of anything. Well about two hours into my hunt I had found 5 wheat pennies, an old tube of Ben-Gay and a medal token from Proctor & Gamble (which I have now found out is an old medal coupon) along with a bunch of junk. At this time the old lady walks over to see how I was doing and if I had found anything. I tell her about the wheat's and the other things, she doesn't say much and wishes me luck and heads back to her house. About an hour later she comes back over to tell me that she has decided that I need to leave and get off her property. She mentioned something along the lines of she didn't think it was fair for me to be getting old coins and things like that when her sons, which would be visiting in June, could be getting the stuff, plus it would be hard to explain to them that a stranger left with everything if they didn't find anything. I think she probably called one of her sons and told them what I found and they probably told her to get rid of me before I ran off with a bunch of old coins and whatnot. 
Anyway I thanked her for letting me hunt there and she thanked me for filling in all my holes as she couldn't tell I had dug anything up. She then told me of an old house about 3 blocks away that was abandoned and that I might have some luck there. Well to make a long story longer I ended up at the house she mentioned and spent the rest of the day there. I ended up doing pretty good for the day as you will see in the pics.... 10 Wheat Pennies (5 from the old ladies place and 5 from the second house), a 1940 Mercury Dime (my first) and a bunch of other odds and ends. I am pretty proud of the Merc Dime, not only because it is my first one but because I think they are the best looking of all U.S. coins. I was also pretty stoked about the Matchbox Pontiac Trans-Am I found as I am a huge Pontiac fan (I own a numbers matching 1972 GTO). The rest of the stuff is pretty interesting as well and I had an awesome time digging the stuff up, it definitely beat a day at work. Thanks for reading my long story and taking a look at my pics... Take Care.
Anyway I thanked her for letting me hunt there and she thanked me for filling in all my holes as she couldn't tell I had dug anything up. She then told me of an old house about 3 blocks away that was abandoned and that I might have some luck there. Well to make a long story longer I ended up at the house she mentioned and spent the rest of the day there. I ended up doing pretty good for the day as you will see in the pics.... 10 Wheat Pennies (5 from the old ladies place and 5 from the second house), a 1940 Mercury Dime (my first) and a bunch of other odds and ends. I am pretty proud of the Merc Dime, not only because it is my first one but because I think they are the best looking of all U.S. coins. I was also pretty stoked about the Matchbox Pontiac Trans-Am I found as I am a huge Pontiac fan (I own a numbers matching 1972 GTO). The rest of the stuff is pretty interesting as well and I had an awesome time digging the stuff up, it definitely beat a day at work. Thanks for reading my long story and taking a look at my pics... Take Care.
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