Heat, New Spot, Biting Flies, and Silver

[McCDig]

August is ending in Baltimore County with a "heat wave".

I got out early to a new spot to me near the water. Tried to stay in the shade in the morning hours.

Houses nearby were built in the 50s so I fully expected to find wheats and hoped for silver.

There were 11 wheats dug that ranged in date from 1939 to 1958 and there was one 1959 memorial.

Clad total was $3.53.

Before going there today I researched the property on the tax map and found it is owned by the State of Maryland; it's a rec field for baseball and soccer and it's not associated with a particular State Park. Seemed like a low-key quiet residential area to detect so I gave it a try today.

One clad quarter that I was pleased to find is the somewhat hard to come by Gettysburg commemorative.

Part way through the morning a county maintenance truck pulled up by the ball diamond so I walked over to let him know what I was about there. He was cool with the detecting but said he didn't think it was allowed on County property. The permitting of detecting by the County is not common knowledge so I'm never surprised to hear that. I showed him my permit, good through the end of 2018, but he would have been fine with it anyway. Part way through the hunt I took a hydration break and a spray down with Deep Woods Off to keep the biting flies at bay, a hazard of hunting close to the water.

Back to the hunt and I finally got silver, a "sweet 16" charm and by the end of the morning I had another silver, a 1944D merc that was buried with two wheats from the 50s.



I think I'll be going back there. Sure is neat to be able to find silver in the County these days.

 

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[Hawks88]

Nice saves. Couple of silver and a commemorative piece. Congrats

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Congratualtions!

 

[toasted]

Nice hunt. I had to abandon hunting a few spots on the river today. The horse flies were crazy

 

[A2coins]

nice finds wheats are good and silver you put alot into detecting and deserve great finds

 

[washingtonian]

Nice Merc!

 

[McCDig]

Thanks Washingtonian! I was hoping all month for a silver dime to add to what I have already for the Board competition at our Club meeting in two days, and today I found one!

 

[McCDig]

Thanks Tommy! I remember one spot I went to years ago in part of a city park in Baltimore. I was digging so many wheats. That spot is about a half city block square and I must have dug 80 - 90 wheats and ultimately (over many visits) 3 silver dimes - a rosie , a merc and a Barber. That was about a 30:1 ratio. Today the ratio was much lower.

 

[McCDig]

Thanks toasted! These critters today were not horse flies, they were much smaller, but also looking for blood. The spray did help but then I was on land and not getting wet other that sweating a lot.

 

[Ogre1190]

Ooooo! If only that Merc woulda been a sweet 16! 😁

 

[McCDig]

Thanks Professor! Since this was a shorter hunt today I was going mainly for high-tones, anything repeatable and 23 and up on the Equinox 600, therefore not a single nickel dug today.

 

[McCDig]

Thanks Ogre1190! That would have been incredible!

 

[McCDig]

Thanks Hawks88! Yes, the Gettysburg quarter is one I do not see in change. It's like collectors were particularly keen on hoarding these.

 

[Whyme]

Nice Merc and Sweet 16!

 

[Trezurehunter]

Congrats on the silvers McCdig. Love those Mercs.

 

[McCDig]

Thanks Trezurehunter! Dug about 62 total targets that morning and 2 were silver. I would have expected the dime to be a Rosie with the 2 wheats from the 50s in the same hole, but very pleased with a merc!