What's in your yard?

[ShovelinDave]

Hey everyone. So when I got my metal detector in the spring I fired it up in my own yard first. I cleared it of all the clad...so I thought. After a month or so I was working trashy yards and parks and having a tuff time with it. No problem, I ordered a new 5x8 DD search coil. What a difference that made. As I used it every chance I got during the summer I seemed to gotten use to the detector and a lil better with it. So the week before last I worked my normal four tens and Thursday my boss said we had Friday off but had to work Saturday and Sunday... Damn. I can't complain because we hardly worked any overtime all summer...three day weekend all summer. So any who's I Worked til 2pm on this Sunday. Get home, my wife was going to make me lunch. Grab the detector and hit the yard. I never did the grass strip in the middle of my drive way so I started there. Right out of the gate I got a dime... then a memorial penny... then a 41 wheat. All this in a five foot section. I'm thinking hell yeah... I'm killing it. Then my evil wife said lunch was ready, get in here nowwww. Go inside and eat and thank Evil for the lunch as the door slams with me running back outside. Finish the strip in the driveway, plucking another wheaty and a shotgun head stamp. Hit the tree row, which isn't very big. Get a funky, iffy signal bouncing around and start digging. It's out of the hole and in the lil dirt pile. Pinpointer pushes this black coin out. Start wiping on it and bam... a 1917 indian head nickle. It's like Christmas in November. Scratched around a little bit more in the front yard and found another wheat. Not bad for a two hour hunt and didn't even have to drive anywhere. GL & HH

 

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[vpnavy]

Nice finds! Thanks for sharing...

 

[Loco-Digger]

Congrats on those keepers, especially the Buffalo nickle. My house was built in the late 70's, nothing but modern clad in the yard. GL & HH

 

[smokeythecat]

Nice finds. I have a boat on a trailer in tip top condition, all waiting for spring and coins my kids dropped 20 years ago. Top of my hill has WW2 period coins.

 

[wingmaster]

I've never really detected my yard as there's nothing but clad junk I'm sure, it's mid 70's and was just a field before that and the EMI is pretty bad here. HH

 

[diggingthe1]

Its nice when there on your property. I have found a few wheats and a nice tax token from oklahoma on my property. We dug hundred of bottles too. Maybe you have an old outhouse pit? Happy Hunting

 

[Mzjavert]

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/today-s-finds/544781-i-dug-lots-trash.html

Mostly trash and pennies right now. But my apartment is in a home built in 1900. I'm willing to dig the junk until the really good stuff shows up. See above link for details.

 

[smokeythecat]

I sold the boat but have a new blacksnake hanging around, if that counts. Too hot to dig.

 

[Pepper06]

When I bought my detector, I sure had high hopes of finding some old treasures around my house. I bought my house from my parents who bought it in the early 60's. The house dates back to pre 1880. There is a person buried here and from what's left of the headstone and by looking at my abstract they would have died around 1850, plus or minus a few years. But i'll be danged if I can find anything close to being that old. The oldest coin I've found is from the 1920's. It is amazing how much stuff I've found that I can identify, like pieces to old toys and farm machinery parts. Most of the coins that I find are newer than 1997, which is the year that I bought the place.