halfdime
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- Oct 31, 2006
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- Zelienople
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- White's XLT
Years ago, before I got a detector, I discovered that my yard was loaded. Not with alcohol, or ammunition, but old coins
! As I transformed the landscape into something I wanted, I sifted dirt. This led me to believe that there may have been a blacksmith shop close by, maybe right on the property line, given the iron scrap that I separated from the soil. When I finally got a detector, the yard got a thorough sweep, and the yields were heavy! Lots of silver, lots of wheat and, in places, lots of chirpy signals. These areas inevitably ended up having more than their share of iron in them. One area I couldn't detect was directly beneath an 8x8 shed that was there when I bought the property; this was right in the "iron area." A few years ago, I pivoted the shed ninety degrees onto four foundation columns, which also resulted in moving it, essentially, one square from its original spot. Of course I detected, and got lots of chirp. Within the last two years, I added on to the shed, covering the original area, but didn't put in a floor; I use it to store lawnmowers and other items for easy access. I have several other projects going on in the yard, all connected somehow; my kids are cleaning a pile of bricks which I am using to lay a floor in the new part of the shed. I need some topsoil to plant grass in the area that the bricks have covered so I'm sifting the dirt that's been under roof for a couple years now. My hope was that I would at least turn up a clay marble or two but that hasn't happened so far. What has happened, and I'm not finished, is five crotal bells and, yesterday, this 1909 Barber dime! It hadn't found its way onto my screen yet when I spotted it in the soil. I have two Barber sets going, one for each of my kids, and this one had eluded us until yesterday. It's pretty worn, so I didn't fret over cleaning it up a little; at first I couldn't see if the last digit was a 0, 3, 8 or 9. Now we know.
! As I transformed the landscape into something I wanted, I sifted dirt. This led me to believe that there may have been a blacksmith shop close by, maybe right on the property line, given the iron scrap that I separated from the soil. When I finally got a detector, the yard got a thorough sweep, and the yields were heavy! Lots of silver, lots of wheat and, in places, lots of chirpy signals. These areas inevitably ended up having more than their share of iron in them. One area I couldn't detect was directly beneath an 8x8 shed that was there when I bought the property; this was right in the "iron area." A few years ago, I pivoted the shed ninety degrees onto four foundation columns, which also resulted in moving it, essentially, one square from its original spot. Of course I detected, and got lots of chirp. Within the last two years, I added on to the shed, covering the original area, but didn't put in a floor; I use it to store lawnmowers and other items for easy access. I have several other projects going on in the yard, all connected somehow; my kids are cleaning a pile of bricks which I am using to lay a floor in the new part of the shed. I need some topsoil to plant grass in the area that the bricks have covered so I'm sifting the dirt that's been under roof for a couple years now. My hope was that I would at least turn up a clay marble or two but that hasn't happened so far. What has happened, and I'm not finished, is five crotal bells and, yesterday, this 1909 Barber dime! It hadn't found its way onto my screen yet when I spotted it in the soil. I have two Barber sets going, one for each of my kids, and this one had eluded us until yesterday. It's pretty worn, so I didn't fret over cleaning it up a little; at first I couldn't see if the last digit was a 0, 3, 8 or 9. Now we know.Attachments
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