DrDetector
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- Pittsburgh, PA
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Well, Halfdime, Kiros32 and I have been hitting this foundation up in the woods for a while now, (especially Halfdime). He's got 3 old coins to show for it (including a large cent found right by where I had been detecting...and I have never found one yet)!
Well, good old HD and I were out in the woods clearing an area to detect and then detecting it. I was getting a lot of iron hits, including some larger square nails pictured. The picture is of most of the stuff I have dug from this place. This time, HD found a depression that we think is where the outhouse was. I was searching around it and got a shaky signal around a +50 VDI or so. I dug down and found my first coin! Admittedly, I originally was thinking it was a copper nickel IHC due to the age of the location and the thickness of it. However, It was a bit bigger than that, it was actually a nickel. So then I was thinking either a Shield nickel or possibly a V. I was so excited to get a date on this coin...and hurried down to the nearest puddle to clean it off in some ice-cold water. After a little bit of rubbing, Jefferson's blasted face started to appear! Drat! So my only coin at this location is a 1964 Jefferson nickel, most likely dropped by a hunter or a kid in the 1960s. My next hit was a solid quarter hit by the hole, and I thought for sure it'd be a good find. Turns out this one was an old brass wedding band with no inscription. I did however find an intact Coca-Cola bottle inside the outhouse hole. Later on I managed a silver (possibly plated) fork. Any info on the fork would be appreciated. Also, while walking back to my car the last time I came upon a 'Golden Age' beverage bottle discarded in the woods by the creek. Anyone have any info on that company? The bottom says Youngstown, Ohio.
Well, good old HD and I were out in the woods clearing an area to detect and then detecting it. I was getting a lot of iron hits, including some larger square nails pictured. The picture is of most of the stuff I have dug from this place. This time, HD found a depression that we think is where the outhouse was. I was searching around it and got a shaky signal around a +50 VDI or so. I dug down and found my first coin! Admittedly, I originally was thinking it was a copper nickel IHC due to the age of the location and the thickness of it. However, It was a bit bigger than that, it was actually a nickel. So then I was thinking either a Shield nickel or possibly a V. I was so excited to get a date on this coin...and hurried down to the nearest puddle to clean it off in some ice-cold water. After a little bit of rubbing, Jefferson's blasted face started to appear! Drat! So my only coin at this location is a 1964 Jefferson nickel, most likely dropped by a hunter or a kid in the 1960s. My next hit was a solid quarter hit by the hole, and I thought for sure it'd be a good find. Turns out this one was an old brass wedding band with no inscription. I did however find an intact Coca-Cola bottle inside the outhouse hole. Later on I managed a silver (possibly plated) fork. Any info on the fork would be appreciated. Also, while walking back to my car the last time I came upon a 'Golden Age' beverage bottle discarded in the woods by the creek. Anyone have any info on that company? The bottom says Youngstown, Ohio.
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I did find some information on Golden Age; everything I read pointed to the '50's. Bummer about the Jeff; as I've said several times, by rights that should have been, at worst, a Buff 
. Now you know the pain Kiros and I felt when we dug our Memorials 
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