Guess I am like everyone else...... found first Mercury dime.

[swcda]

I've read numerous "firsts" postings and pledge I would not post one. Well here I am breaking my my own rules.

Story goes like this.... I was detecting a park in Williston, ND since I had some time off from working. When doing so a couple guys stopped to chat. They both mentioned I should head down to the train station since that is the oldest part of town. Duh, why didn't I think of that. Since I was not finding much in the park I headed down to the station. 10 minutes later I found a 1917 mercury dime and a bar token good for one drink! I have been trying to do research on the token but having no luck finding any info on the bar name in Williston. Oh well, still two "firsts" within 15 min is cool with me.

Headed back to the train station today to spend more time and to see what else I can find.

 

[MT_Joe]

Nice! I am just South of you in Watford City and am still looking for my "first" decent find. The train station makes sense as a good location to hunt. Been there many times, but never to detect. How many parks/schools have you tried there?

 

[hunter_46356]

And your Obsession has begun....You have taken an important step and may not even realize it. To find the old stuff you have to find the old places. Congrats it only gets better from here. Hunter

 

[wvwildman]

nice finds congrats HH

 

[CoilyGirl]

Mercs are my favorite silver coins of all,congrats you .

 

[BryanM362]

Love the old coins!

 

[Chrystal]

Cool find, ve never found a mercury dime yet, still waiting tho.

 

[swcda]

I detected the parks in Crosby, ND a lot last year and did ok. 'm pretty sure I was the only person who has been up there because I found a lot of coins! Mostly clad but I did find 5 1960's dimes and a 7 60's quarters. Now that I am out of Williston I will be hitting these areas more now. If your ever free send me a message and lets go on a hunt in ND.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

You are on your way to attaining "stud-muffin" status. Pretty soon, even seateds will bore you, and it will take gold coins to entice you out to hunt, haha

 

[dirtscratcher]

I was in Williston for a couple years and detected alot, did my best in Sidney. The park inAlexander is realy old, I stopped and talked to a guy detecting as he was digging a barber dime. There are quite a few gosht towns towards Tioga, google Temple ND it is one of the coolest places I've ever seen one of the sites tells who owns it. Another place to go is White Earth closer to Ross, I met a guy here in Kalispell and told him about White Earth, he told me his brother owns most of the town and would surely let me seaech. If you go there he owns and runs campground at old scholl on left coming into town. White Earth is mostly empty and is oldest town in that county. Good Luck.

 

[MT_Joe]

Thanks for all the info! Did you have any luck going back to the train depot swcda?

 

[swcda]

I went back yesterday and found a 1904 Indian head penny. Besides that just a bunch of clad. I'm going to head up to Temple in the next couple of days when my rig is skidding. Hopefully I can find some owners and get permission to hunt.

 

[dirtscratcher]

Idon't know if you guys noticed or not but no trespassing signs have land owners name on them in ND.

 

[swcda]

Found another one.