McCDig
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- Jan 31, 2015
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- Fisher F75
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
Got out today to three parks.
The first is about an acre and is surrounded by 1950s homes.
I was hopeful of finding silver there. After a half hour and some clad I got a nice high tone of 31-33 on the Equinox 600.
The only other "period" find from this site is a watch but I didn't know what I had at the time.
The guts of the watch had decayed and created an iron oxide coating on the face of the watch (glass missing) and on the inside of the watch back. Scraping that away revealed the maker as Patent Watch Co.
The "mortal remains" of the watch face give enough detail to id this as a Howdy Doody wrist watch, the one with the eyes that moved.
On to nearby park #2 and I didn't stay long but managed a wheat from 1944 and a piece of play money dated 1954.
Last stop was Baltimore City and a particular hillside in Druid Hill Park. I'd been over this area times before with my Fisher F75 so I wanted to give the Equinox a shot.
Managed 3 Indian Heads, all toasty but two with readable dates. The 1890 is not pictured but the 1889 has some decent detail.
Along with the Indian Head cents I also dug 3 bullets, one of which has been identified as a .44 cal semi-wadcutter used in an early Smith and Wesson 44 magnum.
Thanks for checking out the pics!
The first is about an acre and is surrounded by 1950s homes.
I was hopeful of finding silver there. After a half hour and some clad I got a nice high tone of 31-33 on the Equinox 600.
The only other "period" find from this site is a watch but I didn't know what I had at the time.
The guts of the watch had decayed and created an iron oxide coating on the face of the watch (glass missing) and on the inside of the watch back. Scraping that away revealed the maker as Patent Watch Co.
The "mortal remains" of the watch face give enough detail to id this as a Howdy Doody wrist watch, the one with the eyes that moved.
On to nearby park #2 and I didn't stay long but managed a wheat from 1944 and a piece of play money dated 1954.
Last stop was Baltimore City and a particular hillside in Druid Hill Park. I'd been over this area times before with my Fisher F75 so I wanted to give the Equinox a shot.
Managed 3 Indian Heads, all toasty but two with readable dates. The 1890 is not pictured but the 1889 has some decent detail.
Along with the Indian Head cents I also dug 3 bullets, one of which has been identified as a .44 cal semi-wadcutter used in an early Smith and Wesson 44 magnum.
Thanks for checking out the pics!
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