digger27
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Two spots, I am so excited about both I can't figure out where I want to spend the most time.
Site one is a corner house on my block, a new permission.
So far a 59 wheat, a 40's wheat, two early ones from 1919 and 1918 and a general services cuff button from either WW1 or 2 era but not any more modern than that.
There is silver here, I can smell it but all in time.
The second site is some twenty foot wide curb strips that run up and down an old street an also in front of a old park from 1898.
Around this park was built a neighborhood that consisted of two acre lots and mansions built on those lots from 1901-1940.
The richest of the rich built and lived in these homes.
The park and all those homes are walled in and private but the curb strips are city property and every hunter worth their salt has been hunting these things since detectors were invented...legions of them.
Considered hunted out now but you know what...they ain't, I am still finding some high conductors heavily masked but hiding and as far as I can tell these guys cherry picked these things only so all lower conductors are still in play.
So far on three short hunts my list of finds from these strips....
A 40's wheat, a 30's wheat and a 1927s that just happens to fill a long open hole in my 1909-1940 collector book that I have been dragging around with me for 51 years so thrilled about that.
A Du Barry Richard Hudnut small swivel top creme rouge compact with pat. 4-27-26 imprinted on it but I think was made in the 40's to 50's...high conductors all of them so so much for cherry picking these sites of all those.
I also found a Toootsietoy aircraft carrier with a little green paint still on it.
Very cool and a surprise was a totally perfect cast crotal bell found right in front of the entrance to that old park and neighborhood and had to be from the late 1800's to early 1900's before cars were popular.
Something else...an elongated coin, a smashed penny but like no other I ever found before.
Green patina like a lot of old coins I have found, the Lord's Prayer on the front and copyright 1933 imprinted on the back, I scraped the side and it is copper or brass under the dirt and patina and get this....It came in as a low zinc on my Fisher not high like all the other copper elongated coins I have found before.
Below a normal 61-62 zincoln into a dead on 53 and exactly the same area as a couple of Indian heads I have found before.
Also I think I can see some faint impressions of elongated denticles on a small part of the back, those little lines that go all around the rim on the front and back of Indian head cents but missing on wheats and memorials.
I believe this really is an elongated coin made from an Indian head and until I find out different I am going with that so...coooool!
Also on the way home in a curb strip near my house I found one of those little kids toy locks which I have found before but here is the weird thing...
In the hole with that lock was also two rusty nails and the tiny key.
At home I cleaned the dirt out of the lock, inserted the key and it opened!
What a surprising and wonderful hobby!.
Site one is a corner house on my block, a new permission.
So far a 59 wheat, a 40's wheat, two early ones from 1919 and 1918 and a general services cuff button from either WW1 or 2 era but not any more modern than that.
There is silver here, I can smell it but all in time.
The second site is some twenty foot wide curb strips that run up and down an old street an also in front of a old park from 1898.
Around this park was built a neighborhood that consisted of two acre lots and mansions built on those lots from 1901-1940.
The richest of the rich built and lived in these homes.
The park and all those homes are walled in and private but the curb strips are city property and every hunter worth their salt has been hunting these things since detectors were invented...legions of them.
Considered hunted out now but you know what...they ain't, I am still finding some high conductors heavily masked but hiding and as far as I can tell these guys cherry picked these things only so all lower conductors are still in play.
So far on three short hunts my list of finds from these strips....
A 40's wheat, a 30's wheat and a 1927s that just happens to fill a long open hole in my 1909-1940 collector book that I have been dragging around with me for 51 years so thrilled about that.
A Du Barry Richard Hudnut small swivel top creme rouge compact with pat. 4-27-26 imprinted on it but I think was made in the 40's to 50's...high conductors all of them so so much for cherry picking these sites of all those.
I also found a Toootsietoy aircraft carrier with a little green paint still on it.
Very cool and a surprise was a totally perfect cast crotal bell found right in front of the entrance to that old park and neighborhood and had to be from the late 1800's to early 1900's before cars were popular.
Something else...an elongated coin, a smashed penny but like no other I ever found before.
Green patina like a lot of old coins I have found, the Lord's Prayer on the front and copyright 1933 imprinted on the back, I scraped the side and it is copper or brass under the dirt and patina and get this....It came in as a low zinc on my Fisher not high like all the other copper elongated coins I have found before.
Below a normal 61-62 zincoln into a dead on 53 and exactly the same area as a couple of Indian heads I have found before.
Also I think I can see some faint impressions of elongated denticles on a small part of the back, those little lines that go all around the rim on the front and back of Indian head cents but missing on wheats and memorials.
I believe this really is an elongated coin made from an Indian head and until I find out different I am going with that so...coooool!
Also on the way home in a curb strip near my house I found one of those little kids toy locks which I have found before but here is the weird thing...
In the hole with that lock was also two rusty nails and the tiny key.
At home I cleaned the dirt out of the lock, inserted the key and it opened!
What a surprising and wonderful hobby!.
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