jrmazzeo
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A Day So Incredible That I'm Glad I had a Witness!
Went for the third time to the old baseball field that I posted on last weekend. I had the whole day to hunt and was meeting a detecting buddy, figuring it was time I shared this new honey hole with him (I had found 18 total silver coins in the first two hunts, including 11 last week (see previous post)). The day started out like last week, lots of Mercs in a small area in right field of the main baseball diamond/left field of the smaller diamond that had given up several Mercs last week as well. I was at 5 Mercs when my buddy showed up. I yielded that part of the field to him and tried an area near one of the end zones of the football field. A nice, deep 38 on the Safari, dug down about 10 inches and out popped the 1896 Barber Half. Thinking that area was going to be great as well, I spent another hour hunting around the end zone but got no more silver, just a few wheaties. I rejoined my buddy near the baseball diamond, he had not had any luck yet. I was able to pull out 3 more Mercs before we decided to try the right field area of the smaller baseball diamond. From that area I pulled out 3 Rosies and my buddy finally got his first silver, a Rosie as well. At that point we broke for lunch. I was feeling pretty good with 8 Mercs, 3 Rosies and a Barber Half in the pouch and several hours of detecting left.
After lunch we went back over both baseball fields and the end zone area, I added a 3 more Mercs and 2 Rosies, smashing my best silver day ever (11 the previous week at the same site). I tried the center field area of the smaller baseball diamond, which is also the sideline of the football field. A deep 36 signal yielded a George II farthing, can't read the date yet but am soaking it in olive oil. Less than 10 feet away got a nice high tone 36-38, and at about 5 inches pulled out a silver dime. Could tell it was either a Barber or Seated by the back, called my buddy over to let him participate in seeing what it was. Seated! 1877, and upon re-examining the back noted that it had a cc mint mark. Full Liberty on the shield. Another 10 feet or so yielded the 1878 IH.
Ended the day on the 1st baseline of the main field, found the toasted 1845 Large Cent an an 1862 Italian 10 Centisimi.
At that point we called it a day. My buddy finished with 4 silver dimes and what looks to be a Large Cent. I had my best silver day ever, 18 silver coins, the Farthing, a Large Cent, an IH and the Italian coin. As I write this I am still giddy. Just goes to show there are still places that are loaded with old coins.
Happy Hunting to All!
Went for the third time to the old baseball field that I posted on last weekend. I had the whole day to hunt and was meeting a detecting buddy, figuring it was time I shared this new honey hole with him (I had found 18 total silver coins in the first two hunts, including 11 last week (see previous post)). The day started out like last week, lots of Mercs in a small area in right field of the main baseball diamond/left field of the smaller diamond that had given up several Mercs last week as well. I was at 5 Mercs when my buddy showed up. I yielded that part of the field to him and tried an area near one of the end zones of the football field. A nice, deep 38 on the Safari, dug down about 10 inches and out popped the 1896 Barber Half. Thinking that area was going to be great as well, I spent another hour hunting around the end zone but got no more silver, just a few wheaties. I rejoined my buddy near the baseball diamond, he had not had any luck yet. I was able to pull out 3 more Mercs before we decided to try the right field area of the smaller baseball diamond. From that area I pulled out 3 Rosies and my buddy finally got his first silver, a Rosie as well. At that point we broke for lunch. I was feeling pretty good with 8 Mercs, 3 Rosies and a Barber Half in the pouch and several hours of detecting left.
After lunch we went back over both baseball fields and the end zone area, I added a 3 more Mercs and 2 Rosies, smashing my best silver day ever (11 the previous week at the same site). I tried the center field area of the smaller baseball diamond, which is also the sideline of the football field. A deep 36 signal yielded a George II farthing, can't read the date yet but am soaking it in olive oil. Less than 10 feet away got a nice high tone 36-38, and at about 5 inches pulled out a silver dime. Could tell it was either a Barber or Seated by the back, called my buddy over to let him participate in seeing what it was. Seated! 1877, and upon re-examining the back noted that it had a cc mint mark. Full Liberty on the shield. Another 10 feet or so yielded the 1878 IH.
Ended the day on the 1st baseline of the main field, found the toasted 1845 Large Cent an an 1862 Italian 10 Centisimi.
At that point we called it a day. My buddy finished with 4 silver dimes and what looks to be a Large Cent. I had my best silver day ever, 18 silver coins, the Farthing, a Large Cent, an IH and the Italian coin. As I write this I am still giddy. Just goes to show there are still places that are loaded with old coins.
Happy Hunting to All!
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