halfdime
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I just got back from a beautiful weekend in New York; it was Homecoming at my college alma mater and I was involved in some of the festivities. I played in a baseball game for the first time in 12 years, so I'm feeling a little sore (hey, I'm almost 49), took the kids to NYC twice and enjoyed warm sunny weather on the Hudson. My college overlooks the Tappan Zee, a 3+ mile wide stretch of the Hudson River, and it's a spectacular setting. The college is also over 100 years old, so people have been dropping coins there for a long time. In the last few years, the school bought a house adjacent to the campus that was built in 1928. As it happens, one of my college friends lives there now and was happy to have me detect it! I didn't get to finish the property, but I managed two sessions totalling about 5 hours. My suspicions about the place were quickly confirmed on Saturday, when old wheats and a '35S Mercury dime came out of the front yard. A little later in the hunt, we moved to the back yard and pulled a nice silver ring. Conveniently, one of my friend's daughters was there and it fits her perfectly. It's now hers 
Yesterday, I went back for a couple hours in search of more. The old wheats came out (at least one teen, several 20's, more 30's), and then the two best finds. First, I dug a plug and saw the shine of silver, but realized that the coin in question showed signs of another coin on it. Sure enough, this '40 Washington quarter was holding up a small pile of two wheats and a '46 Rosey! Not bad, three silver coins and a silver ring, with lots of wheat.
Earlier yesterday, I took the family down to the Metropolitan Museum, then rode the subway down to Chinatown and the Brooklyn Bridge. After another ride uptown, we drove back to our hotel with several hours of daylight left. Anyway, and ironically, the last good find of the day was a very small NYC subway token! Back in the day, I rode the subway on larger tokens, but this was smaller than a dime. Any NYC subway experts, any ideas on when these smaller tokens were used? I'm very close to $400 in face since I started detecting, and I'd hoped I'd break it with a nice old coin on the Hudson. Didn't quite get there, but not for lack of trying; I really don't want the coin that pushes me over $400 to be clad
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Oops! After checking my coin ledger, I realized that it was the Washington/Rosey and two wheat combo that put me over the $400 (career) mark. I guess I can live with that!
Yesterday, I went back for a couple hours in search of more. The old wheats came out (at least one teen, several 20's, more 30's), and then the two best finds. First, I dug a plug and saw the shine of silver, but realized that the coin in question showed signs of another coin on it. Sure enough, this '40 Washington quarter was holding up a small pile of two wheats and a '46 Rosey! Not bad, three silver coins and a silver ring, with lots of wheat. Earlier yesterday, I took the family down to the Metropolitan Museum, then rode the subway down to Chinatown and the Brooklyn Bridge. After another ride uptown, we drove back to our hotel with several hours of daylight left. Anyway, and ironically, the last good find of the day was a very small NYC subway token! Back in the day, I rode the subway on larger tokens, but this was smaller than a dime. Any NYC subway experts, any ideas on when these smaller tokens were used? I'm very close to $400 in face since I started detecting, and I'd hoped I'd break it with a nice old coin on the Hudson. Didn't quite get there, but not for lack of trying; I really don't want the coin that pushes me over $400 to be clad
.Oops! After checking my coin ledger, I realized that it was the Washington/Rosey and two wheat combo that put me over the $400 (career) mark. I guess I can live with that!
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