Dr. Ace
Sr. Member
Hello everybody, and thanks for reading!
It was Saturday afternoon, and I got a call from drodda777. I had been mowing the yard and was just taking a break when Dave called to invite me over to detect a small town park located near him. I eagerly accepted, and after finishing mowing the yard, I headed over to his house, about 25 miles away.
In the meantime, Dave had headed over to a local park with his 4 year old daughter. While pushing her on the merry-go-round, he managed to uncover a near-virgin 1898 IH penny! http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,236641.0.html
When I arrived, we headed over to a nearby town that had a small town park, surrounded by gravel roads. We eagerly started to hunt. But, it soon became apparent that the park had been visited by other detectorists before us. However, I did manage to uncover a bullet and a fishing line sinker!
Although I don't have a picture of the park, these are the finds I made. The bullet was the first find, followed by the clad, and finally the sinker. Amazingly enough, the park was detector-friendly. All of my clad finds were on top of the ground! One of the memorial pennies was even an eyeball find! Talk about user friendly!!!
drodda777 managedto pull five or six memorials from the ground the old fashioned way. As for me, no digging was necessary! 
A true Sportsman's paradise!!
After an hour or so, we decided to head to a more challenging area. It was dusk when we hit the empty lot in the town where Dave lives. Almost immediately, Dave found two wheaties in the same hole. They were a 1917D and a 1918. He proceeded to head over to a more lucrative-looking area - visions of silver dancing in his head!! After an hour of digging, through dirt and gravel, and long after the sun had set, I finally decided to head over to the area where Dave had recovered his wheaties. Almost immediately, I dug my own 1917D. Then I got a signal I couldn't pin point, but decided to dig anyway. It turned out to be a 1900 Indian Head penny that had been waiting for me to recover it for almost a century. I was happy to oblige. Having rescued the native american, I moved on to see who else I could help. It turns out there was more wheat waiting to be harvested. I helped a 1918 (also the same year as Dave earlier recovered) out of its premature burial. At the same time, about a half-block away, Dave was aiding two more wheats that were waiting for him.
Thanks to the Lowes headlamps we were using, we were able to pursue our rescue operations long into the night. Thankfully, we were able to leave having harvested a half dozen wheat cents, not to mention the disoriented Indian. In the process, we also aided several dollars of Uncle Sam's coins. FEMA has nothing on us!!
Our rescue operations over for the night, we headed home - secure in knowing we had contributed to the re-integration of these brave American coins into human interaction!!!
On behalf of drodda777, good luck on your next hunt, and thanks for reading.
HH!!!
Dr. Ace
It was Saturday afternoon, and I got a call from drodda777. I had been mowing the yard and was just taking a break when Dave called to invite me over to detect a small town park located near him. I eagerly accepted, and after finishing mowing the yard, I headed over to his house, about 25 miles away.
In the meantime, Dave had headed over to a local park with his 4 year old daughter. While pushing her on the merry-go-round, he managed to uncover a near-virgin 1898 IH penny! http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,236641.0.html
When I arrived, we headed over to a nearby town that had a small town park, surrounded by gravel roads. We eagerly started to hunt. But, it soon became apparent that the park had been visited by other detectorists before us. However, I did manage to uncover a bullet and a fishing line sinker!
Although I don't have a picture of the park, these are the finds I made. The bullet was the first find, followed by the clad, and finally the sinker. Amazingly enough, the park was detector-friendly. All of my clad finds were on top of the ground! One of the memorial pennies was even an eyeball find! Talk about user friendly!!!
drodda777 managedto pull five or six memorials from the ground the old fashioned way. As for me, no digging was necessary! A true Sportsman's paradise!!After an hour or so, we decided to head to a more challenging area. It was dusk when we hit the empty lot in the town where Dave lives. Almost immediately, Dave found two wheaties in the same hole. They were a 1917D and a 1918. He proceeded to head over to a more lucrative-looking area - visions of silver dancing in his head!! After an hour of digging, through dirt and gravel, and long after the sun had set, I finally decided to head over to the area where Dave had recovered his wheaties. Almost immediately, I dug my own 1917D. Then I got a signal I couldn't pin point, but decided to dig anyway. It turned out to be a 1900 Indian Head penny that had been waiting for me to recover it for almost a century. I was happy to oblige.
Having rescued the native american, I moved on to see who else I could help. It turns out there was more wheat waiting to be harvested. I helped a 1918 (also the same year as Dave earlier recovered) out of its premature burial. At the same time, about a half-block away, Dave was aiding two more wheats that were waiting for him.Thanks to the Lowes headlamps we were using, we were able to pursue our rescue operations long into the night. Thankfully, we were able to leave having harvested a half dozen wheat cents, not to mention the disoriented Indian. In the process, we also aided several dollars of Uncle Sam's coins. FEMA has nothing on us!!
Our rescue operations over for the night, we headed home - secure in knowing we had contributed to the re-integration of these brave American coins into human interaction!!!
On behalf of drodda777, good luck on your next hunt, and thanks for reading.
HH!!!
Dr. Ace
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That 1917 is close to 1914
