Checked out old city Park todayr

Monty

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Jan 26, 2005
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I am still on my quest for silver so I decided to check out one of the Citie's oldest parks today. When I arrived I noticed it was much smaller in size than I had remembered. Sure enough a lot on the end of the park had been developed commercially. Guess the city needed the money? I started by working my 4" coil along the sidewalks at the park entrance. It seemed like I found a penny about every foot along this sidewalk, all clad. Maybe a mistake but after 15 straight in the first 30' of sidewalk I got tired of digging pennies and went to program 3 on my Land Ranger which pretty much descriminated that tone out. From then on I dug at least 50 pull tabs looking for nickels. I am still having trouble with nickels reading the same as pull tabs on my machine. Maybe it's just my hearing range but they sound and register the exact same on my machine's display. I found the back off another watch! This is the second watch back I have found in a park and why I have no idea. I dug all tones around the watch back in hopes to find the rest of the watch but no luck. Around the play area I fond a couple of clad dimes. I moved over the the basketball court and found a clad quarter and two more clad dimes. Whiule walking back to my truck I left my detector on and it started beeping really loud so I stopped and dug a big fishing sinker! There's not a fishing hole within a mile of this ark! One thing I have noticed about playgrounds is that the City has been landscaping them with humps and mounds to look like golf courses. The dirt and fill they haul in may be covering up the old coins with several feet of earth in spots. Anyway, no silver to be had today! I am going back soon to work the area around the tennis courts. For some reason I tend to find more coins around the edges of concrete slabs than anywhere else at a park.
 

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I once hunted in back of a schools baseball backstop where they had 2 little bleachers and behind them a small concession stand. The stand was on 4x6 skids with a platform made of 2x2"s gapped an inch apart that you stood on to buy a soda or whatever. It had just been moved over a ways. I checked where it had been and got 5 half dollars a bunch of quarters and so on, all clad. But i have never found more than 1 half on any hunt before or since. Too fun that day.
 

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