Pocket Spill
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Took the day off today to head out to rural Illinois and get my dad so he can fly out of O'Hare tommorrow. My first bit of luck today was deciding to leave my house at 6:30 a.m on the north side of the city and somehow missing the hail!
I knew I would have an hour or so once I got there before we would head back so I decided to bring the detector and hit an old 19th century fairground field. It has been pounded since the 1970s but it still occasionally gives up a coin or two and everything I have found there has dated prior to 1910.
The field had been chisel plowed last fall making walking difficult let alone the ground nothing close to flat to swing a coil over. Did my best to swing over the uneven ground. 15 minutes into the hunt I got a high tone and at 2 inches dug an 1876 Carson City (CC) Seated Dime! Continued to hunt for the next hour but no other coins.
I knew I would have an hour or so once I got there before we would head back so I decided to bring the detector and hit an old 19th century fairground field. It has been pounded since the 1970s but it still occasionally gives up a coin or two and everything I have found there has dated prior to 1910.
The field had been chisel plowed last fall making walking difficult let alone the ground nothing close to flat to swing a coil over. Did my best to swing over the uneven ground. 15 minutes into the hunt I got a high tone and at 2 inches dug an 1876 Carson City (CC) Seated Dime! Continued to hunt for the next hour but no other coins.
I give up on spots like that afrte sixty seconds.
