The cash cow was in the neighborhood

watercolor

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Thursday night my metal detecting buddy called and asked if I wanted to detect
a street tear-up near his mom's place the next morning. Even though freezing temps
and flurries were in the forcast, how could I say no to this opportunity?

We arrived late morning just as the Gradall had finished scraping the turf between
the sidewalk and the street curbs of a 4-block strip. Wthin the first 10-minutes
I found a 3-cent pocket spill that included 2 Wheats (1911 & 1919) and a 1900
IH and soon after, I recovered a lone Merc enrusted with mud. I threw it in my
pill container and decided I would wait until until I got home to clean it.

As our hunt progressed, I found a few more Wheats plus, a sweet Cracker Jack
Cow made out of "pot metal" and then a 1909 Barber Dime that I'm sure, had
seen better days.

Our hunt was briefly interrupted when a police patrol car pulled up. The female officer
said someone called in a complaint that "two people with metal detectors were digging
up yards along the road". When she saw what we were doing, she began to laugh and
then said: "I hope you guys find some neat stuff" and then she left.

When I got home, I cleaned up the Merc I had found and when I saw the date,
my heart skipped a beat. . . until I saw the mint-mark on the reverse side.
It was not the "D" I was hoping for. . . but, I was still happy.

Thanks for looking!

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Looks to me the rewards was well worth a pair of cold hands..Imho Great Finds
 

The ones that let a little cold weather keep em home don't post pics of finds....they just comment on those that do!
 

Awesome finds!!!
 

Good work, nice finds!
 

Great choice taking the cold weather and forecast head-on!

Great finds
 

Very nice digs from a awesome site. Great to be in the right place at the right time.
 

Great finds. The cow is pretty cool too.

Definitely gettin' pretty cold out there too.
Last week it a 70 degrees but of course, I had to work.

Looks like it was worth a little shivering to get that nice haul anyway.
Congrats.
 

Milk that cow for all it's worth - you gotta pounce on every one of those while you can ! four blocks could yield a lot of goodies
is there much competition ?
 

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Nice find's!
Alway's gotta be some jealous a**%@?$ trying to take someone's harmless fun away..............
 

Great finds, and I'm glad the cop didn't give y'all a hard time.
 

nice finds,real close to finding that '-D'.I think them old cracker jack prize's are really collectable too.Are you going back,there could be Mooo-ore
 

Hello watercolor. Nice finds, hunt, and post. Those "D's" are hard to come by...still the 2013 Redbook says it's worth at least four bucks. Forty times face value ain't bad. HH. C9
 

The cow is udderly cool!
 

Merc 16 D would have been $$ next time . Ya did well and I cannot resist ,took the bait ,
the cow reminds me of the Beatle's song, have you herd this one ,

Something in the way she moos
attracts me like no udder lover :tongue3:

sorry George
 

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