Private 1954 yard produces bigly!!

Dan(NM)

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I scored a permission a few days and finally got to it today. Although not very old, it turned into a very productive hunt. I was using an Equinox 600 and was digging everything from nickles up. First sweep yielded a wheaty, that's a great way to start a permission. Little did I know I would spend the next 5 hours digging almost almost nothing but coins. Almost every sweep netted a coin or something cool, fortunately, everything was shallow. After almost 2 hours of digging nothing but copper memorials and wheats, when I get a solid and repeatable 33 on the nox. I flip the dirt over and felt a metal object hit my digger :headbang: big silver!!! I love these coins, I thought I might find a silver Washington or maybe a Bengy, but, the Walker was a big surprise. That was only the beginning of a great silver day from a rather small yard. As you can see, lots of neat fun stuff came out of the yard, the 3 small Mexican coins were in the same hole. It appears to have been a homemade piece of jewelry because the solder joints look a bit rough. I also found some kind of trade token, but I cannot make out what it is because it's worn pretty bad.

I went over the place 3 times from different directions and will be going over it one more time with the Etrac just to see if the Nox and I missed anything. I also have another permission a couple of houses down from this one. I plan on trying to get into several others as well. Very unusual yard, I found a silver rosie on top of the ground last week when I was delivering the mail to this house, which is what prompted me to ask for permission. Several of the wheats were barely under the surface, the Walker was maybe 2" deep, nothing over 5" It appears that this yard has never had grass or has been worked since the house was built, barely a blade of grass, just dirt :icon_scratch:
 

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Very nice! Must have been fun finding all that loot.
 

Very nice! Must have been fun finding all that loot.

It was almost too easy lol.....I hunted an 1890's house a week or so ago, 4 wheats and a couple of dozen clad coinage ???
 

Way to go Dan!:hello2::headbang::occasion14:
 

Man, you are doing our state proud - I find it difficult to score like that up here in Northern NM. Very nice day out ( I gotta get some permissions !)
 

Nice Hunt!!! Congrats!!!
 

Nice finds...looks like stuff that would have fell out of a mailman's pocket on the run from a dawg or something. :thumbsup:
 

Well it looks like 50s premissions are in order now , conrgats on a nice haul and big silver
 

Well it looks like 50s premissions are in order now , conrgats on a nice haul and big silver


Lol....we know how this story goes most of the time....great old house permission... turns into a stinky turd. Hunt a 40's or 50's house and bingo... It's a numbers game for sure Jimmy!
 

Man, you are doing our state proud - I find it difficult to score like that up here in Northern NM. Very nice day out ( I gotta get some permissions !)

Haha....I didn't mention all the big fat zero's most of these type of yards produce, no rhyme or reason to it, but, permissions are the way to go in NM. You may have to venture out to some of the smaller towns to get into friendly territory, I would imagine Sante Fe isn't to open minded to our hobby.
 

Well let's see what happens in Lincoln, billy thy he kid town
 

Well let's see what happens in Lincoln, billy thy he kid town

It'll be interesting to say the least, old Lincoln town has some history going for it.
 

I like the idea of Las Vegas (NM) but I need to make connections up there - talk about a wild west town ! Tombstone , and Abeline , and Dodge City, had nothing on Vegas.
 

A "Virgin Yard", congratulations for simply asking!..............63bkpkr
 

Hi, wow nice hunt with some great finds. Congrats:icon_thumright:
 

Congrats on the sweet haul!
 

Nice finds! :icon_thumleft: Love those Walkers.
 

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