sandchip
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Glad I didn't find anything good...
It was so nice this afternoon that I decided to give the bathroom remodeling a break and hit the yard across the street from the house. Hadn't got switched on good before my 78 year-old neighbor headed my way. He's as good a neighbor anybody could ask for, a lonely widower, so it's cool. Besides, he got me permission from the adjoining church that owns the lot. Anyway, he hangs in there with me talking and talking. I was getting great signals, but finding your usual trash. 1/4" brass plug, brass latch of some kind, big puddle of melted aluminum, weird, crude solid lead cone, etc. Then I found a dime, a Rosie, didn't look silver but even with my glasses, I couldn't make out the date. Didn't think much about it, handing it to him to take a look. Well, he pulls out his pocketknife and commences to scraping my dime to get a better look. I'm thinking, oh well, it's just a dime. When I got home, I got a better look and it's only a 2008, but what a valuable lesson I learned.
It was so nice this afternoon that I decided to give the bathroom remodeling a break and hit the yard across the street from the house. Hadn't got switched on good before my 78 year-old neighbor headed my way. He's as good a neighbor anybody could ask for, a lonely widower, so it's cool. Besides, he got me permission from the adjoining church that owns the lot. Anyway, he hangs in there with me talking and talking. I was getting great signals, but finding your usual trash. 1/4" brass plug, brass latch of some kind, big puddle of melted aluminum, weird, crude solid lead cone, etc. Then I found a dime, a Rosie, didn't look silver but even with my glasses, I couldn't make out the date. Didn't think much about it, handing it to him to take a look. Well, he pulls out his pocketknife and commences to scraping my dime to get a better look. I'm thinking, oh well, it's just a dime. When I got home, I got a better look and it's only a 2008, but what a valuable lesson I learned.
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