Road Tripped and raided the St. Louis parks and plucked out an 1829 capped bust

[silverfreak]

Well I decided to head to St.Louis to raid some parks before the weather gets too bad. I met up with Holedigger and boy did we have some fun. These parks have been hammered for 4 decades or more but there's obviously still goodies there. ...you just have to be patient and relentless. These are the same parks a ton of us just hit a few weeks ago at the seminar get together. I said then that I was coming back to hunt again and that's just what I did. I had my 6" coil on so we decided to sift through the trashiest and nastiest of spots at each of these parks. I don't care what anyone says...NO place is EVER hunted out. I have taken great pride this year in hunting ONLY pounded to death sites hoping to locate some coins missed and walked over the last 30 years or so. As technology changes between machines..coils...settings...hunting styles..etc....it opens NEW doors to find goodies.
I ended up with more memorials than I have ever dug before...seriously...and I refuse to give you THAT total. ALL of the coins I found were from 5" to 7" and every coin was beneath...beside...on top of...or next to garbage in the hole. Heck I found the barber dime at 6" under a root in a hole with a pulltab and nail. I then dug a clad dime at over 7"? That's why I decided to dig all signals that were 4" or more. Every memorial I dug was down at least 5"...so I had to dig em'.
The last part of the day I dug what I thought for sure was a seated dime...but my eyes are getting bad...so I wasn't sure.I handed it to Dennis and kept saying "I got a seated...I got a seated"....and Dennis said "holy shi#"...I think you do. He then says "wait a minute"..."holy shi%..I think you got a capped bust". I said "a WHAT. He then says...."son of a b$%^&" it IS a capped bust. We both figured a soldier dropped that coin in the 1860's or so. There would be no other explanation for it being there.
I ended with 5 wheaties...a silver roosey....a 1900 Indian head....2 mercs 1928 and 39...a 1900 barber dime...a lunch token...and then struck paydirt with the 1829 bust dime. I've been chuckling to myself how Holedigger and I were sitting there looking at it and neither of us was exactly sure what it was for a while and couldn't read the date either. Man...we're getting old! What a couple of goofs...we're sitting there all excited and couldn't even see the date on the freakin' coin..ha ha.

 

[Kas]

Freakin' awesome hunt , man. You guy rocked that place.

Congrats on the sweet finds.

Dig-it Ken

 

[oknorom]

wow, a bust dime! i love it. i would have to go back east to find one of those...

congrats on a great day!

 

[silverfreak]

Freakin' awesome hunt , man. You guy rocked that place.

Congrats on the sweet finds.

Thanks Ken.

Dig-it Ken

 

[silverfreak]

wow, a bust dime! i love it. i would have to go back east to find one of those...

congrats on a great day!

Thanks oknorom

 

[Old Dog]

Awesome diggs Buddy,

Sounds like a trip that may be on the books more often.
Congrats!

OD

 

[Evolution]

Awesome capped bust. Don't see those too often. I bet you were pumped when you found out it was a capped and not a seated. Great hunt.

 

[silverfreak]

Awesome diggs Buddy,

Sounds like a trip that may be on the books more often.
Congrats!

OD

Thanks OD. I wish I could make that trip a few times each year. We'll see what happens.

 

[t-bucket]

Bryce ,I still think that's awesome.Who knows what you will find next.I wish we lived closer so maybe some of your talent would rub off on me when we hunted.So have a good one brother, and good luck on your next hunt.

 

[Danimal]

congrats on all the beautiful dimes.
You hit the quad!

 

[Michiganne]

Nice finds! Way to be persistant. My hunting friend and I have the same problem reading dates on cruddy pennies we find. Solution: bring along 12 YO daughter. Keep digging!

 

[rebelLT]

WOW! WOW! all I can say is WOW! She's a beaut even in that condition. NICE.

 

[Missouri_John]

Re: Road Tripped and raided the St. Louis parks and plucked out an 1829 capped b

which park in St Louis did you pull those goodies out of?

 

[Boobydoo]

Wow is right, well done and congrats.
Too bad you didn't get a seated,
then you would have had all 5 dimes (6 with clad roosie)
made in the last 3 centuries. Freaking awesome!

 

[Rich in Central PA]

WOW just look at all that silver. Very nice, and a capped bust dime to boot. My hats off to ya. A big congratulations

 

[SilverFox167]

Way to Bust a Find, or should I say finds.
Nice variety of coins.
WTG!!!!!!!!

 

[silverfreak]

Awesome capped bust. Don't see those too often. I bet you were pumped when you found out it was a capped and not a seated. Great hunt.

Thanks Evolution.I was definately pumped.

 

[silverfreak]

Bryce ,I still think that's awesome.Who knows what you will find next.I wish we lived closer so maybe some of your talent would rub off on me when we hunted.So have a good one brother, and good luck on your next hunt.

Thanks G. You should've gone brother.

 

[EARTHWORKS]

Nice cap! First one I have seen in a long time. Nice finds.

 

[silverfreak]

congrats on all the beautiful dimes.
You hit the quad!

Thanks Danimal. I don't think I would have found squat if it wasn't for the 6" coil sniffing through the trash.