DrDetector
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With the last decent day this year (at least with my busy schedule coming up), I headed out to a location where a Boy Scout camp was which was abandoned around the 1960s. The whole area is now woods. Halfdime knows the place;-). I decided to hit up a different section of the woods with some evidence of grass, so I thought it was probably a field back in the day. First signal was a +94 on my XLT, which is around a silver dollar reading. Just under the thin layer of grassy dirt was a layer of light gravel. I flipped out the first inch or two of this and a large silver disc came out and flipped onto the side of my hole. I saw a reeded edge, and a dirty silver coin the size of a dollar. Yes, folks, I really was convinced I had found my first silver dollar! Now was it a Morgan or a Peace!?! Waaaaiiiitttt....why does my silver dollar have a big 'Burger King' logo on it? Reality set it. I had only found a Burger King token from 1983 good for one FREE Breakfast beverage with any purchase. Crap! Probably dropped by a hunter back in the '80s.
Slightly disappointed, I head down to the creek running through the site. I was working my way up the creek for a little bit, walking through the frigid water in my waterproof boots (a necessity this time of year). I got a half dollar signal this time in the gravel just on the edge of the water. As I started to move the gravel, the water filled up my digging location. So I was kind of blindly pulling out scoops of gravel and mud, but this next token came up from only about 2 inches down. Does anyone know ANYTHING about it at all? I can't find anything out about it. It was found outside Pittsburgh, PA and is slightly larger than a half dollar.
Kept looking around for a few hours but only came up with a newer Lincoln Memorial Cent, a bunch of shotgun shells and this 'DEER-COY' object, presumably dropped by a hunter, but I can't figure out how it works or what you do with it.
Any help on that one would be great, too!
Good luck to all in 2008!
Slightly disappointed, I head down to the creek running through the site. I was working my way up the creek for a little bit, walking through the frigid water in my waterproof boots (a necessity this time of year). I got a half dollar signal this time in the gravel just on the edge of the water. As I started to move the gravel, the water filled up my digging location. So I was kind of blindly pulling out scoops of gravel and mud, but this next token came up from only about 2 inches down. Does anyone know ANYTHING about it at all? I can't find anything out about it. It was found outside Pittsburgh, PA and is slightly larger than a half dollar.
Kept looking around for a few hours but only came up with a newer Lincoln Memorial Cent, a bunch of shotgun shells and this 'DEER-COY' object, presumably dropped by a hunter, but I can't figure out how it works or what you do with it.
Any help on that one would be great, too!
Good luck to all in 2008!
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