tnt-hunter
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- All Treasure Hunting
DAY 1
Still working the dry swimming areas at my favorite park but things have changed, winter is here. Low to mid 30s today with a steady breeze made for a cold day of swingin. The finds were scarce and the ones I found were mostly sinkers.
Only 3 of the coins came from the swimming area, the rest came from other parts of the dry lake bed. Not much foil today and NO can tabs yeah.
In 5 hours I managed to find 22 coins with a face value of $1.62, 7 earrings, a brass bead, 3 earring backs, a stainless steel screw on ball end of piercing jewelry, a cheapie ring, a stainless screw, 24 sinkers, bits of fishing tackle and a little foil. It was quite a sinker day with some real tiny split shot sinkers.
One of the earrings was gold. A tiny little thin teddy bear earring that was 14k. Not a lot of gold but gold 5 hunts in a row from this parks swimming areas. I’ll take it.
Winter is really here, we had several inches of heavy wet snow that I had to deal with. I had to wait for a couple of days before I could go out again and when I did it was cold and windy, even to the east where it is warmer than home.
DAY 2
I almost stayed home. It was flurrying, it was windy (gusts 30+ mph) and cold (stayed in mid 30s). But I had to go out for some things anyway so I decided to give it a try. I went back to campus figuring I might have the best chance of getting a few dollars in change and I might get lucky. I decided to try an area I have only walked around a few times. I have found a lot of slaw and junky targets with coins being few and far between. I gridded an area by the parking lot and found a couple dollars in change and a key.
I figured it was time to move to a different spot and started swingin my way off this field and down a small hill toward the stream. I got a coin signal and dug a small plug, it wasn’t deep and out popped a large cent. I gridded a small area hoping for a spill with no luck and went back up the hill toward the field I had been on and about 80 feet away I found a sliver seated dime. Again I gridded a small area and nothing else so I headed off into the field at different angle and about 65 feet away out pops a green disk close to quarter size and I knew I had a 2 center. The last hour I worked my way around the field and only found 1 more coin, a wheatie so it was time to go. I haven’t had an old coin day like that in a long time. It felt great.
All together in 4 hours I found 36 coins with a face value of $3.32, a silver dime, a 2 cent piece, a large cent, a wheatie, part of a brass hinge, a small D buckle, a small brass ring, a chunk of melted lead, a brass inside corner brace, a key, 2 pieces of a fancy license plate holder, can slaw and tabs.
The silver dime was down in a muddy spot and I could see the rim when it came out so I knew it was silver, but that’s all I could see. I popped off one side and could see the ONE DIME so I knew it was a Barber or a seated. I didn’t have any water so I spit on it and got it wet enough to shake off the mud and see it was seated. I did the rest of the cleaning at home. It is an 1853 with arrows in nice condition. She still has a little rust on her face, but it should clean off nicely. This is the third seated from the campus.
The 2 cent piece came out with some green showing and with that color and that almost quarter size I was pretty sure of what it was. It is an 1865 and still needs to have some of the dirt removed, but it looks great. A nice green that all of them I have found around here have and the details are are crisp. This is the second 2 cent piece from campus.
The largie came out all crust as usual. Easy to tell it was a large cent and with a little rubbing you can see it is an 1847. The third large cent from campus. All three of these were relatively close together (inside a 100 foot square) and all of the other like them were on the other side of the campus. Goodies a can be anywhere so keep hunting and diggin. You may dig a lot of modern coins and junk, but sooner or later the goodies will show up.
The brass hinge piece has a decorated edge and looks old. Never found one exactly like it and am not sure of the age, but I like it. The older stuff will be going to the college library as part of their local historic display.
I was going to go out again today, but it got colder and snowier and the wind was still with us so I decided against it. So that’s all for this week. I will be out in the snow camping with the scouts tomorrow, all bundled up and working on scout projects outdoors. Only 2 hunts this week, but good results.
Thanks for looking, stay safe, good luck and may you coil lead you to good things.
Still working the dry swimming areas at my favorite park but things have changed, winter is here. Low to mid 30s today with a steady breeze made for a cold day of swingin. The finds were scarce and the ones I found were mostly sinkers.
Only 3 of the coins came from the swimming area, the rest came from other parts of the dry lake bed. Not much foil today and NO can tabs yeah.
In 5 hours I managed to find 22 coins with a face value of $1.62, 7 earrings, a brass bead, 3 earring backs, a stainless steel screw on ball end of piercing jewelry, a cheapie ring, a stainless screw, 24 sinkers, bits of fishing tackle and a little foil. It was quite a sinker day with some real tiny split shot sinkers.
One of the earrings was gold. A tiny little thin teddy bear earring that was 14k. Not a lot of gold but gold 5 hunts in a row from this parks swimming areas. I’ll take it.
Winter is really here, we had several inches of heavy wet snow that I had to deal with. I had to wait for a couple of days before I could go out again and when I did it was cold and windy, even to the east where it is warmer than home.
DAY 2
I almost stayed home. It was flurrying, it was windy (gusts 30+ mph) and cold (stayed in mid 30s). But I had to go out for some things anyway so I decided to give it a try. I went back to campus figuring I might have the best chance of getting a few dollars in change and I might get lucky. I decided to try an area I have only walked around a few times. I have found a lot of slaw and junky targets with coins being few and far between. I gridded an area by the parking lot and found a couple dollars in change and a key.
I figured it was time to move to a different spot and started swingin my way off this field and down a small hill toward the stream. I got a coin signal and dug a small plug, it wasn’t deep and out popped a large cent. I gridded a small area hoping for a spill with no luck and went back up the hill toward the field I had been on and about 80 feet away I found a sliver seated dime. Again I gridded a small area and nothing else so I headed off into the field at different angle and about 65 feet away out pops a green disk close to quarter size and I knew I had a 2 center. The last hour I worked my way around the field and only found 1 more coin, a wheatie so it was time to go. I haven’t had an old coin day like that in a long time. It felt great.
All together in 4 hours I found 36 coins with a face value of $3.32, a silver dime, a 2 cent piece, a large cent, a wheatie, part of a brass hinge, a small D buckle, a small brass ring, a chunk of melted lead, a brass inside corner brace, a key, 2 pieces of a fancy license plate holder, can slaw and tabs.
The silver dime was down in a muddy spot and I could see the rim when it came out so I knew it was silver, but that’s all I could see. I popped off one side and could see the ONE DIME so I knew it was a Barber or a seated. I didn’t have any water so I spit on it and got it wet enough to shake off the mud and see it was seated. I did the rest of the cleaning at home. It is an 1853 with arrows in nice condition. She still has a little rust on her face, but it should clean off nicely. This is the third seated from the campus.
The 2 cent piece came out with some green showing and with that color and that almost quarter size I was pretty sure of what it was. It is an 1865 and still needs to have some of the dirt removed, but it looks great. A nice green that all of them I have found around here have and the details are are crisp. This is the second 2 cent piece from campus.
The largie came out all crust as usual. Easy to tell it was a large cent and with a little rubbing you can see it is an 1847. The third large cent from campus. All three of these were relatively close together (inside a 100 foot square) and all of the other like them were on the other side of the campus. Goodies a can be anywhere so keep hunting and diggin. You may dig a lot of modern coins and junk, but sooner or later the goodies will show up.
The brass hinge piece has a decorated edge and looks old. Never found one exactly like it and am not sure of the age, but I like it. The older stuff will be going to the college library as part of their local historic display.
I was going to go out again today, but it got colder and snowier and the wind was still with us so I decided against it. So that’s all for this week. I will be out in the snow camping with the scouts tomorrow, all bundled up and working on scout projects outdoors. Only 2 hunts this week, but good results.
Thanks for looking, stay safe, good luck and may you coil lead you to good things.
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