Hit Country Club for an hour this morning

[pointdlr]

Dug 14 holes in an hour. 5 Silver Dimes (another tri-fecta) . 1904 Barber in nice condition. 1941 and 1926D Mercs. Rosie's are 1952 and 1954. Other holes yielded 1 small copper cufflink, 4 wheats, 2 Memorial cents, 2 clad dimes. I haven't ever been to a place that yields this type of percentage. I was cherry picking.... The area at the club is very small ( Maybe 15 paces x 25 paces ), and I have found 16 silver dimes in 3 hunts that totaled no more than 4 hours combined. This type of site must be what it was like back in the 1970's.
I have not found a silver quarter at the location, and only 1 clad quarter. My theory is that the grass is cut so short that they were all picked up before they could enter the ground.
This should just about wrap up my first year of metal detecting, but I hope to sneak out a few more times before the 1st. 10 silver dimes in the last 2 days is a huge number for around these parts.
Regards,
Jon Dickinson
www.prehistoricartifacts.com

 

[pookie-princess of rust]

nice silver!

 

[camb1]

Very Nice Finds.

 

[Detectingfreak]

wow look at the beautifull silver coins!!! Very nice job!

 

[Jagdpanther]

Great finds - congrats!!!

 

[allen]

sweet silver...

 

[John Deere Digger]

Great finds, we were just commenting on how great it would be to find a place that would be like detecting in the 70's
JDD

 

[sfinder]

Great hunt!

 

[Captn SE]

What a great spot that is, Jon!!

Must be nice!!

Congrats on a great year!

CAPTN SE
Dan

 

[tymcmurray]

Country clubs send security out to meet me at the truck.
How do you wing such a site?
Great finds!

 

[crazyjarhead]

You had a great day for sure. Nice barber

 

[kdismuke1]

NIC HUNT. LIKE ALL THE SILVER.

 

[pointdlr]

Thanks for replies!

I have to think the 80's was still pretty good, right? Wish I would have started in the 80's......

Murray - I am good friends with the head groundskeeper. He got it approved with the GM. Over the holiday, member traffic was due to be really low at daylight, so we set it up for the day after Christmas. Had to go back yesterday. I did hunt it once last spring and thought about getting back about 1000 times between then and the 26th. I wonder how many more are in the small area.

SE- Yes, it felt like I was hunting a barrio park in Cali. I would love to see what I could do in those parks. Probably get skunked, but it would be fun.

JDD - Wouldn't it be great to get in a time machine and hunt some of the major turn of the century gatherings the day after? Thats my dream.

Regards,
Jon Dickinson.

 

[phantomfinder]

WTG on the finds , good luck in 2009

 

[SpringTxDigger]

Awesome finds! Enjoy. Days like that are rare. Congrats!