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Spring Hunts at the Fairgrounds in Northern Mich, Silver, wheaties and Indian

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While I have been hunting, I am way behind on posting!

Spent a quality day at the old fairgrounds beating the bushes. Still hit some "lightly frozen" ground. The weather was still a bit on the cool side when I started (40s) but warmed to the mid 50's by afternoon. I thought I would hit all the parts of the brushy areas that will soon be overgrown with ferns, raspberries and all the other vegetation that makes swinging a coil a real pain!

I started out with the new pro-coil. Doing my best to get used to it on the Quattro. After a couple of hours I switched to the 5" coil, and started feeling more productive! In the bushy areas, or with lots of junk that little coil is just plain deadly!

Some of the wheaties I am posting here came from my first spring hunt at the old farmers' union hall site.

Found a couple of mercs ('24 and '41) an 1899 Indian Penny, some early wheaties (1909 - naked variety, 1912, 1913, 1917, 1926, 1934 and 1937) a 1936 Canadian Penny, a razor and a odd junque ring.

I overdid the cleaning on a couple of the pennies, left 'em too long as I fell asleep in my recliner, but man did that nap feel good!
 

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Great finds and nice pennies!
 
Re: Spring Hunts at the Fairgrounds in Northern Mich, Silver, wheaties and India

Congrats on some nice olds wheats! and some beautiful mercury dimes :thumbsup: :thumbsup: keep it up. best of luck and HH
 
Good Stuff! Love the razor.....congrats on the ring! :thumbsup:

HH,
Moon
 
Nice finds. Too bad that 1909 isn't a VDB. It's in great shape.
Randy
 
Nice. I know you were thrilled. Congradulations.....
 
Nice digs, Mark! :thumbsup:

Naps are good. :)

HH
 
Thanks for the kind words everyone!

Sorry it's taking me longer than normal to respond. So busy at work these last couple of weeks.........

Good Luck,
Mark
 
Good stuff Mark. I know about the "busy" thing lately ???
 
"M" Great Finds.
 

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