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Finally! We hit a good spot. It was a dirt driveway behind an old house scheduled for demolition. I went the first day and found several wheats and figured it was a good place. My wife, a friend, and I went yesterday and today and found the rest. My wife, as usual, came out with the goods. She was the one to find the silver (I haven't found any silver yet). She found a 1944 mercury dime, a 1912 barber quarter and scratched it pretty hard with her knife, a token for interstate lumber company in quitman Ga, a good luck boy scout token with a swastika symbol on it, a musketball, pocketwatch remains, and the swivel looking thing. I found the lock, the large cent in bad condition, the police button, a nickel sized coin with no discernable marks, 2 buckles, a compact, and a copper whatsit about the size of a quarter and twice as thick. It's hard to read the large cent, but after lots of studying and some cleaning, it appears to be a 1817 or 1818. It's definitely a matron head cent.
My friend found a 1938 centavo, some wheats, part of a pocketwatch, and some sort of decorative hook, but I don't have pics of his finds.
Most of this stuff was found 2 to 4 inches deep. My wife usues a radio shack/bounty hunter. I use a Fisher CZ7. My thousand dollar detector versus her 200 dollar unit, and you see how bad I got spanked? Just goes to show that an expensive machine isn't everything.
This is the first time I've ever found any old coins other than wheat pennies with my detector. This isn't the first time my wife put me to shame with silver, lol
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Thanks for looking!
Finally! We hit a good spot. It was a dirt driveway behind an old house scheduled for demolition. I went the first day and found several wheats and figured it was a good place. My wife, a friend, and I went yesterday and today and found the rest. My wife, as usual, came out with the goods. She was the one to find the silver (I haven't found any silver yet). She found a 1944 mercury dime, a 1912 barber quarter and scratched it pretty hard with her knife, a token for interstate lumber company in quitman Ga, a good luck boy scout token with a swastika symbol on it, a musketball, pocketwatch remains, and the swivel looking thing. I found the lock, the large cent in bad condition, the police button, a nickel sized coin with no discernable marks, 2 buckles, a compact, and a copper whatsit about the size of a quarter and twice as thick. It's hard to read the large cent, but after lots of studying and some cleaning, it appears to be a 1817 or 1818. It's definitely a matron head cent.
My friend found a 1938 centavo, some wheats, part of a pocketwatch, and some sort of decorative hook, but I don't have pics of his finds.
Most of this stuff was found 2 to 4 inches deep. My wife usues a radio shack/bounty hunter. I use a Fisher CZ7. My thousand dollar detector versus her 200 dollar unit, and you see how bad I got spanked? Just goes to show that an expensive machine isn't everything.
This is the first time I've ever found any old coins other than wheat pennies with my detector. This isn't the first time my wife put me to shame with silver, lol
.Thanks for looking!
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........might need to invest in a pinpointer... 
