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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Super day.Congrats :icon_thumright:
 

Very nice.........:notworthy:
 

Nice finds Dan. I never disregard a home just because its not from the 1800's. Two weeks ago, I detected a yard of a 1952 home, and like you, not expecting anything old, came up with a silver Roosevelt, Merc Dime, a 1945 Walking Liberty, 3 Wheats, a Dog tag from Florida, a token, and 23 clad coins. That was one of the best yards I've done this year. Congrats on your finds.
 

nice finds a fifties yard made me think one of those yards might have had a lemonade stand at some point in time
 

Congratualtions on the nice coin hunt! :occasion14:
 

Nice haul. Beautiful silver. Congrats
 

That is the permission we all like to dream about. Nice group of finds and nice silvers. I winter in Arizona and most of the finds I recover are not really deep either. The ground is so dry and hard they aren't able to settle in deep. Congrats.
 

That is the permission we all like to dream about. Nice group of finds and nice silvers. I winter in Arizona and most of the finds I recover are not really deep either. The ground is so dry and hard they aren't able to settle in deep. Congrats.

This area is really weird, this yard the finds were shallow, other parts of town, stuff is 8-9+" deep.
 

What a permission!!! Well done!
 

Nice finds Dan. I never disregard a home just because its not from the 1800's. Two weeks ago, I detected a yard of a 1952 home, and like you, not expecting anything old, came up with a silver Roosevelt, Merc Dime, a 1945 Walking Liberty, 3 Wheats, a Dog tag from Florida, a token, and 23 clad coins. That was one of the best yards I've done this year. Congrats on your finds.

The big building boom for this town started in the late 40's when the Air Force base went in. A large majority of the town sprang up in the early 50's. The oldest part of town was only 8 square blocks, I took care of those when I first started hunting in 1989 :headbang:
 

What a great hunt!
 

well done Im always looking for new sites good job
 

Dang, that’s a good selling point. Who’s gonna say no to their postman? Good job.
 

Great hunt! We have a lot of old mining town houses in my area, from around the late 1800s to early 1900s, and some of these have been loaded with cool coins and relics. Not the really old stuff, but interesting none the less. Great score, congratulations!
 

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