Back to the Zoo!!

[Dan(NM)]

Got back to the old zoo where I found my walker and a nice token on Sunday, today didn't disappoint either. First good hit was the token from Sweetwater Tx, the other token from Sunday was from Cal. I haven't had a chance to research the one I found today. The slick looking thing is a quarter that looks like it had been put on the railroad track which run beside the zoo. I was running the 6" coil on the CTX, the ground is polluted with iron tones on every swing when I got a nice high, out pops a rosie from 6" surrounded by iron, I love that small coil. The V-nickle was an eyeball find, sitting right on top of the ground, that makes 1-V and 2 silvers I've found here on top of the ground. They must have moved the dirt around in this location because the rosie wasn't that far from where I found the nickle. not sure what the other 2 things are, the ball rang up as 12-44, but, is way too light for silver, the blob rang up at 12-39, and could be silver, just not certain. I had to hunt faster than I wanted because of time constraints, but, I'll be back!!

 

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[washingtonian]

Nice finds!!

 

[trdking]

Awesome stuff! Are you finding this in the old caged areas? I would think people would throw coins at the animals?

 

[Dan(NM)]

Awesome stuff! Are you finding this in the old caged areas? I would think people would throw coins at the animals?

No, these are in the open areas, a buddy of mine got to hunt inside one of the cages years ago, it was a gold mine in old coins he said

 

[Gridwalker306]

Good looking finds!

 

[david680]

Nice finds. Lol, I found 2 IHC yesterday and one of them was right on top of the ground. At our courthouse.

 

[Kurios1]

The ZOO has been very good to you. Is the smashed quarter clad or silver? I have dug a smashed penny from the rails once. I used to enjoy taping pennies to the ICRR back in the 60's. Nice hunting once again.

 

[Dan(NM)]

The ZOO has been very good to you. Is the smashed quarter clad or silver? I have dug a smashed penny from the rails once. I used to enjoy taping pennies to the ICRR back in the 60's. Nice hunting once again.

This zoo has been giving up the goods since I started hunting it in 1999, it comes in spurts for some reason The quarter is clad(boo), that's ok, always neat to find oddball stuff.

 

[sutphin]

NICE ZOO FINDS...

 

[MrBlueSkyNM]

Wow, talk about never hunted out. That's a lot of time at that site. Congrats on continuing to pull them out! And good ones too!

 

[scruggs]

You did good!

 

[trapperart]

Nice finds congrats