On my way home from the drugstore yesterday I spotted a guy coming out of an older house (I always drive through the old neighborhoods hoping for just such an opportunity) and quickly pulled over to chat it up with him. He was really nice and gave me permission to hunt the yard.
The yard has been stripped of the grass and is down to just sandy dirt. There are literally hundreds of green and blue marbles visible and he said he has picked up a large bucketful already, but they just keep emerging. Very odd.
It was a pretty small yard as is typical for the area, and only took me about an hour and a half to search it slowly and carefully. I got 14 wheat cents (most ever in a single hunt), a Rosie, a Mexican 10 centavos, an AA token (I think), another good luck token (this one has no embossing on it), a plastic gunslinger and two whatsits. I had to do electrolysis on a few of the pennies to get the crust off to see the dates.
If anyone knows what those curlycue things are I'd like to hear. They look familiar but I can't place them.
A shot of surface marbles. The whole yard was like this.
The yard has been stripped of the grass and is down to just sandy dirt. There are literally hundreds of green and blue marbles visible and he said he has picked up a large bucketful already, but they just keep emerging. Very odd.
It was a pretty small yard as is typical for the area, and only took me about an hour and a half to search it slowly and carefully. I got 14 wheat cents (most ever in a single hunt), a Rosie, a Mexican 10 centavos, an AA token (I think), another good luck token (this one has no embossing on it), a plastic gunslinger and two whatsits. I had to do electrolysis on a few of the pennies to get the crust off to see the dates.
If anyone knows what those curlycue things are I'd like to hear. They look familiar but I can't place them.
A shot of surface marbles. The whole yard was like this.
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