Weekend Road Trip yields Quarter Slam!!!, Indian Tribe, MUCH more...

[Mike Moutray]

Headed East to NW Ohio and Northern Indiana to spend a weekend driving town to town and hunting sites I researched or hunted previously. 1st stop made the whole weekend! Hunting a town square in Somewhere, Ohio I pulled up a ton of signals, including a few big silver coins. I started with a 1942 Walker and then 4 Quarters - 1853 Seated, 1892O Barber, Slick Stander, and 1945 Washington for a Quarter Grand Slam!!!


I'm still stunned by the amazing amount of luck involved in that achievement!! Also found an 1867 2 Cent Piece, Barber Dimes, Mercs, Roosy dime, silver ring, a few Indians and other keepers! What a start to a Road Trip! This square had been hunted pretty good, but most of my targets came out of very minerallized and iron infested ground around 1 side and my Explorer did good sniffing them out.
Here's the finds from just this first site:



I spent the rest of Saturday, Sunday, and Monday covering other sites and added many more goodies to the finds total. 3 days and 1,400 miles later I had a nice haul to tote home!

Here's the Tribe of 19 Indians including a key date 1867:



This is the 20 pieces of silver found:



Here's the other coins... 1867 2 cent piece, 63 wheats - one stamped with a Masonic logo - 4 V Nickels, a nice 1854-1904 50th anniversary Medal from U.S. Express Co.:


Here's some other odds and ends and jewelry:


Here's the grand total for the finds:


Thanks for looking, take care and HH, Mike.

 

[umrgolf]

You had a mighty fine weekend congrats

 

[nova]

That is some outstanding finds. I,m sure you will be on cloud Ohio for sometime.

 

[Tykit]

Simple awesome to go out and find that much in this day and age.

 

[allen]

Wow, that is more silver than I average in a year !!
And I wont even mention the other goodies you saved !!
Id say you had one of the best weekends ever !!

 

[Colonial Copper Zeus]

Nice Grand slam Mike.
Chris

 

[caveman2]

amazing finds

 

[teleman 2525]

very excellent finds

 

[dwatson4]

The TPA button you have there is from the "travelers protective association" founded in the late 1800's by a group of traveling salesmen looking to better improve safe working conditions for traveling salesmen. later garnering lodging benefits for their members. They later changed their logo a bit so it would not get confused with the parent teacher assn. now the focus on helping children

http://www.tpahq.org/detailedhistory.html

I found a watch fob with their logo from 1923 the logo was changed sometime after that. If the p is over the t and a its pre logo change

nice haul btw

 

[billydabeeg]

Man! You killed it! Stay out of Michigan!!!

 

[grasshopper]

holy crap!! that was quite the road trip! more indians than I find all year...

 

[oddcoins]

WOW ~ that's big batch of treasures there! WOOHOO!!! Very exciting! Congrat's man!

 

[RONC(OR)]

Great hunt congrats

 

[gold nuggets]

Great hunt Mike.......WTG!
Road trips like that are so
much fun.....congratulations.
Gold Nuggets

 

[N.J.THer]

Congrats...very cool on the quarter grand slam.

NJ

 

[dwayne sueno]

sweet weekend, Mike. congrats on the slam!

 

[Steve in PA]

That's a heck of a haul and I like the way the soil treated those Indian Heads!

 

[Saabman]

Simply awesome!!! WTG!!!

 

[Argentium]

Ridiculous weekend man ! I am envious - Argentium.

 

[Mike Moutray]

The TPA button you have there is from the "travelers protective association" founded in the late 1800's by a group of traveling salesmen looking to better improve safe working conditions for traveling salesmen. later garnering lodging benefits for their members. They later changed their logo a bit so it would not get confused with the parent teacher assn. now the focus on helping children

http://www.tpahq.org/detailedhistory.html

I found a watch fob with their logo from 1923 the logo was changed sometime after that. If the p is over the t and a its pre logo change

nice haul btw

Thanks for that info! HH, Mike.