Great One-Hour Hunt: Silver, Wheats, foreign

[washingtonian]

Hey everyone,

Well, our summer is officially over and our rainy season is here. Apparently there's a 5000 mile-long contiguous cloud stretching from Seattle to Shanghai so we're supposed to see nothing but rain for days. My brother and I were supposed to hit a new permission last night but it was raining too hard :/

I still had the itch so when I saw there was an hour break in the rain this morning I dashed out the door with my gear to hit the sidewalk strips a block away. I'm glad I did!

Had a great little hunt. First old coin was the 1942 Canadian penny only a half-inch down. I scraped it because I wasn't expecting anything old but it looks like it had a pretty tough life before it even met me.

45 minutes in I'd found a few wheat pennies and was about to call it a day when I got a good signal at 6". I pulled the 1920 wheat from there. I gridded that little patch extra hard and turned up the merc and a couple more wheats! The merc is beautiful. The reverse specifically is pristine.

Here are the keepers:
-1 Merc (1943-S)
-6 Wheats (20, 40-S, 44-S x3, 52-S)
-1 King George VI Canadian Penny (42)







Thanks for looking and happy hunting this weekend!
-Washingtonian

 

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[trapperart]

You had a very good hunt for the time you had. Congrats on some nice finds

 

[xr7ator]

Just a short walk and one hour nets silver. NICE!

 

[Chiltepin]

Nice Job,
Notice how only the Canadian coin is destroyed, looks fresh too.

 

[sutphin]

NICE FINDS

 

[wagbert]

That Mercury Dime would have made my day. As you said, "It is beautiful!"

 

[scruggs]

Good job, nice finds!

 

[pepperj]

Nice slice job on our old King. I thought a lawn mowers did a fine job on a coin, it just took Seattle's Best Digger to take out a foreign coin.

Just ribbing you, nice hunt and getting the silver. Your lucky you didn't hit one of our 1921 nickels, dig a tad wider and a tad deeper is a wise saying.

 

[hbru123]

Nice finds!!