Took some items off my want list early this year

[nebstater]

There's an old park here in town that the city has been working on for the past few days. They took a section of it and graded off about 8 to 12 inches in depth so they could level the area off so they can put in new play ground equipment. What makes this so great is the fact that now we can get down to the level of some of the old coins that haven't seen the sun for a 100 years or so. It hasn't hurt anything either that it has really been a wet last couple of weeks. A hunting partner and I hit the scraped area on Saturday, and the first 3 pictures are keepers that I found. My buddy found a pair of Indian head pennys, a buffalo nickel, and a 1900 Barber dime. Saturday night, it rained 3/4 of an inch, but with the luck we had had, just had to go back on Sunday. Picture 4 is what I found that day. Monday, after the city got done working in the area I went back again, and picture 5 has what I found. And then lastly, Tuesday afternoon I went back one more time and found a "new" coin. A 1944s Wheat penny.

Sorta makes you wish that they would scrape more areas of the park off. Even with the scraping of the area, most of the coins were still another 3 to 6 inches below the scraped area. Still, a very successful few days.

 

[SC_hunter]

Those were some great finds...Just think, soon it will be overtaken by playground equipment. Find it all..

 

[rmptr]

WTG Neb!

Great site... scrape the whole thing!!!

very nice coins.

HH
rmptr

 

[crazyjarhead]

Nice finds..... keep looking as you and I know there are more

 

[Happy Harry]

I would take any one of those in a heart beat! The only question remaining would my heart continue to beat? So Nice. HHHH

 

[cntrydncr1]

Nice hitting those milestones. congrats.

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Gratz on the firsts, still looking for my V nickles.

Keep @ it and HH!!

 

[sonny60]

great finds congrats

 

[jgas]

Nice hitting those spots when thay first open up. Great finds. jgas

 

[Metal Head]

Where do you get those incredible indians. They are pristine!

 

[dugdigger]

i agree those are really clean coins.

 

[liftloop]

 

[Nana40]

Neb! Awesome finds! Wonder what they did with the dirt they hauled off? Before my huntin' buddy Terri started detecting, she had some dirt hauled in to fill in some low spots in her yard. Now that she hunts, she's out there finding all kinds of old coins in her yard!

Congrats! Nana

 

[nebstater]

Where do you get those incredible indians. They are pristine!

They came out of the ground real dirty, and soap and water wouldn't clean them up with a darn, so I threw them into the rock tumbler for a couple of hours, and it did a real nice job on them.  I was really pleased how they came  out.    These are only my 2nd and 3rd Indians that I've ever found.  Just wished that the Liberty nickels would have been a little nicer, but I'll keep them anyway.

 

[nebstater]

Neb! Awesome finds! Wonder what they did with the dirt they hauled off? Before my huntin' buddy Terri started detecting, she had some dirt hauled in to fill in some low spots in her yard. Now that she hunts, she's out there finding all kinds of old coins in her yard!

Congrats! Nana

Nana, the dirt that they took off the area is in a big pile right beside the cleared area. I've went over it a couple of times, but the only coin I've found was a Bicentennial quarter. Not near as old or as nice as these coins were.