granthansen
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- Joined
- May 16, 2012
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- Location
- New Jersey
- Detector(s) used
- Minelab CTX 3030, Garrett Ace 350, Fisher CZ-21, Garrett Pro Pointer
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
On my lunch break today I headed back to retrieve the rest of the Chinese coins. I filmed my experience, but the hole got out of hand. So much fill and garbage. Too embarrassing to reveal! Anyway, out of the hole I only got one more Chinese coins, and 4 more bullet shells (short and long, 22 I think).
I meandered around the rest of the back yard but it was really really junky, lots of garbage and fill. In the front yard I found a wheat penny. I have to clean it up to find the date.
While I'm nervous about hitting the curb strip (busiest road in town, and not sure how Kosher it is) there's about 4 feet by 50 feet of lawn between a wall and the sidewalk. I was out of time (had to get back to work) but I decided to dig a signal before I left. I got an iffy 11/42 and decided to keep going. Then I got a really solid 12/46 a few feet away. I dug and as expected it was a quarter. Modern though. I went back to my iffy signal and dug. Out came a... nail! No, that can't be it! So I pinpointed again and got a hit. I wiped away the dirt to reveal the sweet glimmer of silver. Yay! Got a nice 1916 Merc, my first silver of the year. And the same year as the KGV penny I found.
I looked up and a cop was starting at me from his car. I waved and he motioned as if to say, "What the &#%@?" I walked over and explained the story of my permission again, and he said, "Oh yeah, I remember reading about another report from the weekend." By this time though I was already late in getting back to work, so I dug just one more hole and got another dime... modern.
I'll be back to scour that strip!
I meandered around the rest of the back yard but it was really really junky, lots of garbage and fill. In the front yard I found a wheat penny. I have to clean it up to find the date.
While I'm nervous about hitting the curb strip (busiest road in town, and not sure how Kosher it is) there's about 4 feet by 50 feet of lawn between a wall and the sidewalk. I was out of time (had to get back to work) but I decided to dig a signal before I left. I got an iffy 11/42 and decided to keep going. Then I got a really solid 12/46 a few feet away. I dug and as expected it was a quarter. Modern though. I went back to my iffy signal and dug. Out came a... nail! No, that can't be it! So I pinpointed again and got a hit. I wiped away the dirt to reveal the sweet glimmer of silver. Yay! Got a nice 1916 Merc, my first silver of the year. And the same year as the KGV penny I found.
I looked up and a cop was starting at me from his car. I waved and he motioned as if to say, "What the &#%@?" I walked over and explained the story of my permission again, and he said, "Oh yeah, I remember reading about another report from the weekend." By this time though I was already late in getting back to work, so I dug just one more hole and got another dime... modern.
I'll be back to scour that strip!
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