Cool Hand Fluke
Bronze Member
I hunted 3 places today, I'll start with the first place I hit.
Got a tip from one of the local SF hunters about an alley with a dirt road in an older residential part of the city. (thanks Tim!) I started swinging in the alley and worked my way to the end. The only good target turned out to be a 1950's Tootsie Toy Jeep that sounded like a can. I spent about 1 hour there and found only 5 pennies, zinc and Lincolns.
My second location was found by accident. While driving to a baseball field I discovered this small median that was about 100' feet long and about 50' feet wide. I knew I had stumbled on a good spot because I dug up 3 wheat cents in the first 10 minutes! I stayed in the median for 4 hours and dug out 30 wheat pennies, 1 rosie silver dime, 1 silver war nickel, and 2 mercury dimes! I just kept swinging until no targets were left. I dug a total of 63 coins out of this small median!
My 3rd spot was a baseball field where I arrived about 5:30 pm. Hunting until 7 pm I was very much surprised with a 1908 Presidential watch fob depicting William Jennings Bryan and John Kern who where the democrat nominees for president & vice president. Watch fob was about 4 inched deep, how did it get in the baseball field?. A 1962 silver dime in the baseball field would add to my silver coin total of 5 for the day!
Got a tip from one of the local SF hunters about an alley with a dirt road in an older residential part of the city. (thanks Tim!) I started swinging in the alley and worked my way to the end. The only good target turned out to be a 1950's Tootsie Toy Jeep that sounded like a can. I spent about 1 hour there and found only 5 pennies, zinc and Lincolns.
My second location was found by accident. While driving to a baseball field I discovered this small median that was about 100' feet long and about 50' feet wide. I knew I had stumbled on a good spot because I dug up 3 wheat cents in the first 10 minutes! I stayed in the median for 4 hours and dug out 30 wheat pennies, 1 rosie silver dime, 1 silver war nickel, and 2 mercury dimes! I just kept swinging until no targets were left. I dug a total of 63 coins out of this small median!
My 3rd spot was a baseball field where I arrived about 5:30 pm. Hunting until 7 pm I was very much surprised with a 1908 Presidential watch fob depicting William Jennings Bryan and John Kern who where the democrat nominees for president & vice president. Watch fob was about 4 inched deep, how did it get in the baseball field?. A 1962 silver dime in the baseball field would add to my silver coin total of 5 for the day!
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You found three excellent places! 
