Ike Dollar?, Wheaties, & Dr. Snoopy... 
Hello all,,,
Grabbed me a temporary digger and got out yesterday for a few hours. As I was heading out the door with my detector in hand, with a screwdriver, and a putty knife to dig with, my brother says, "I got something you could probably dig with", so he brings me this old rusty butchers knife. It has a fairly stiff blade and had a pretty good amount of rust on it, so I took it out and used it. After dig'n for a while the blade cleaned itself up and I noticed the knife was an "Old Hickory". I though Dang, this is too good of a knife to be cutting through the dirt with, so I'm going to clean it up a bit more, stick a new edge on it, and use it in the kitchen...
The hunt when fairly well and the knife worked great. I found a total of (3) Wheaties, 1950/D, 51, and a 55/D. I looked at the 55/D but didn't see any signs of a doubled date..
Also found a small Snoopy pin, with the pin part missing, 91 cents in clad, and my first big (Ike) dollar coin. Ooops, forgot to add the Ike is a bicentennial 1776-1976
The Ike Dollar has me, and Dr. Snoopy, a little puzzled. There are places on it where the red crusty stuff is flaking off and it looks like finely sandblasted silver underneath? I tried to pick more of it off with a toothpick, but it's stuck on there pretty good. All the coins from this site come out look terrible, even the silver, so could this be a 40% silver clad coin, or do ya just think it's a regular clad...
Any help would be greatly appreciated,,, Thanks...
Have a great day, Leon...
Hello all,,,
Grabbed me a temporary digger and got out yesterday for a few hours. As I was heading out the door with my detector in hand, with a screwdriver, and a putty knife to dig with, my brother says, "I got something you could probably dig with", so he brings me this old rusty butchers knife. It has a fairly stiff blade and had a pretty good amount of rust on it, so I took it out and used it. After dig'n for a while the blade cleaned itself up and I noticed the knife was an "Old Hickory". I though Dang, this is too good of a knife to be cutting through the dirt with, so I'm going to clean it up a bit more, stick a new edge on it, and use it in the kitchen...
The hunt when fairly well and the knife worked great. I found a total of (3) Wheaties, 1950/D, 51, and a 55/D. I looked at the 55/D but didn't see any signs of a doubled date..
Also found a small Snoopy pin, with the pin part missing, 91 cents in clad, and my first big (Ike) dollar coin. Ooops, forgot to add the Ike is a bicentennial 1776-1976
The Ike Dollar has me, and Dr. Snoopy, a little puzzled. There are places on it where the red crusty stuff is flaking off and it looks like finely sandblasted silver underneath? I tried to pick more of it off with a toothpick, but it's stuck on there pretty good. All the coins from this site come out look terrible, even the silver, so could this be a 40% silver clad coin, or do ya just think it's a regular clad...
Any help would be greatly appreciated,,, Thanks...
Have a great day, Leon...
