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Hi everyone. Been a while since I've dug any holes, and even longer since I had anything decent to post. I received permission to hunt a 100+ year old home in a town a bit south of mine. The elevation is much lower, so the ground isn't frozen to the depths that it is in my hometown. The home is also south facing, so it gets a chance to thaw every afternoon.
I hit the site the first time in the mid afternoon, and found that other than the north side of the house, I was able to get my digging tool into the ground without problems. After a quick walk-around, I decided to hit the side yard adjacent to a crumbling concrete walkway. First signal I dug was a fired .45 slug at 5"; must have been shooting at a gopher. I continued on track, and ended up in a small 10' x 10' area of the yard that was separated from the rest by a low concrete wall. Two old overgrown fruit trees were in this square, along with every apple that the trees produced rotting on the ground...had to kick them away with my foot to get the coil to the ground...what a mess. Second signal of the day was bouncing between nickle and pull tab. I pulled the plug, and saw the edge of the coin sticking out of it at about 3" depth. Grabbed it, gave it a quick wipe and saw 1903 peeking out at me. My previous oldest coin was 1930, so I barely kept from giving a holler (lots of neighbors and I was feeling a bit self conscious anyway). My oldest coin and my first V Nickle! Continued on and found 7 or 8 clad coins at depths of 5-7" (my heart was pounding every time I got a good deep signal because I just knew it had to be an oldie) until my cell phone started ringing and had to head back to work.
After the longest three days of my life, I managed to hit the site again for 2 hours. Found a few more clad coins, the corroded fired .45 casing from the bullet I'd found before, and at 2" a 1920D Wheat penny. What's up with the old stuff being shallow? At any rate, here's the pics.
P.S. I included the old hunting/fishing license frame in this thread even though it was not found at the old house site. This one was found at a forest service station that was built in 1930 (and where I found my previous oldest coin, a 1930 Wheat).
Hope you all enjoy the pics.
MP
I hit the site the first time in the mid afternoon, and found that other than the north side of the house, I was able to get my digging tool into the ground without problems. After a quick walk-around, I decided to hit the side yard adjacent to a crumbling concrete walkway. First signal I dug was a fired .45 slug at 5"; must have been shooting at a gopher. I continued on track, and ended up in a small 10' x 10' area of the yard that was separated from the rest by a low concrete wall. Two old overgrown fruit trees were in this square, along with every apple that the trees produced rotting on the ground...had to kick them away with my foot to get the coil to the ground...what a mess. Second signal of the day was bouncing between nickle and pull tab. I pulled the plug, and saw the edge of the coin sticking out of it at about 3" depth. Grabbed it, gave it a quick wipe and saw 1903 peeking out at me. My previous oldest coin was 1930, so I barely kept from giving a holler (lots of neighbors and I was feeling a bit self conscious anyway). My oldest coin and my first V Nickle! Continued on and found 7 or 8 clad coins at depths of 5-7" (my heart was pounding every time I got a good deep signal because I just knew it had to be an oldie) until my cell phone started ringing and had to head back to work.
After the longest three days of my life, I managed to hit the site again for 2 hours. Found a few more clad coins, the corroded fired .45 casing from the bullet I'd found before, and at 2" a 1920D Wheat penny. What's up with the old stuff being shallow? At any rate, here's the pics.
P.S. I included the old hunting/fishing license frame in this thread even though it was not found at the old house site. This one was found at a forest service station that was built in 1930 (and where I found my previous oldest coin, a 1930 Wheat).
Hope you all enjoy the pics.
MP
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