Neighbor puttin in a new lawn!

[Mudslide]

I asked the guy 3 doors down if I could do his yard since his grass was gone and he had not replanted it yet. Found 2 wheat pennies and a couple of memorials, a dime and this .925 silver ring. Since I am new to this hobby it was rather exciting for me. I shined it up and gave it to the guy for his wife or sister. On our street the houses were built in the 20's. I have found pennies as old as 1917, but no old nickels, dimes or quarters. Did they not lose these types of coins back then?

 

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[Calico Jack]

Back then, a nickel, dime, and certainly a quarter were worth looking for. I remember back in my day, when a dime was worth something. You could buy a steak dinner, a scoop of ice cream, a pair of shoes, two tickets to the World's Fair, and still have enough left over to make a down payment on one of those newfangled gasoline auto-mobiles. My pappy used to say, "When you drive the auto-mobile, watch out for pigeons," which were always on the road until the Kaiser captured them all to use for communicating with the Masons during the war... Sorry, what was I talking about?

Nice ring.

 

[Leon]

Great looking ring, WTG!!!
Nice of you to let them have it, good P.R., maybe they can turn you on to some other great spots...
I remember back as a kid in the early 60's a quarter would buy ya a donut, and a coke/ or chocolate milk, and still have enough change left over to pitch in on a pack of $0.32 cent cigarettes...
Good luck & Happy hunting~

 

[jeff of pa]

COOL Ring.





Jeff

 

[kermit]

Nice find.
I found one something like it.
The one I found was in the water
for what looked like years.
It was black. It took some cleaning
but I got it back
925

 

[Mirage]

My grandmother's house was built in the 20's. This was the best place we ever hunted. We found 29 Wheats, buffalo nickels, mercury dimes, silver war nickels, silver rosevelt dimes, and a Walking Liberty Half. About 140 coins total on a very small lot. The key here was that there were five boys in the family. Most of this was stuff they (my dad and his brothers) lost when they were kids in the 30's. Kids are great for loosing money. So I think you need to do every house on that street!

Good luck.

Bob

 

[WeaponsUSMC]

Very nice ring, you did a good thing by giving the ring back to him, words will spread about your generosity and hopefully open up more yards to detect. HH....Bill

 

[tsgman]

Congrats on the ring. ?Keep on diggin !

 

[Mr. Morbid]

Very cool finds... Keep up the great work...

 

[lonewolfe]

Nice ring!

HH

Lonewolfe

 

[Crutch]

Way to go mudslide, maybe they'll ask you what you have been finding in the future, which leads to lead on other places.

I like your picture, I think they call it avitar or something. I thought the EYE would get on peoples nerve and was thinking about changing to the ostrich. (spelling?)

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Good Hunt!!

Keep @ it and HH!!

 

[Mike in Fla.]

nice find, my neighbor just put down new sod, I should have ask him to hunt his yard.
Congrats again.


Mike

 

[Mudslide]

Thank you guys for your kind words. You are right- back then even a nickel was valuable, so they probably hung onto them tighter! My sister theorized that the pennies were in the front lawn because kids got them at Halloween and in disgust discarded them (not candy!) or dropped them from their goody bags as they ran from house to house. Maybe there is silver here and it is deeper and will take more diligent searching.

Crutch- I like your eyeball. It looks "all-knowing"!

 

[southern gent]

Just another argument for Treasure is where you look. Great looking ring Mudslide. Don't be downhearted though, there are plenty of old coins left out there. Keep-a-lookin'. You'll find it. HH! Chris

 

[caratjuice]

That was a good opportunity so close to home. Nice ring. I found many wheats in my yard and lots of clad but no silver. Always wondered about that too. Welcome to the forum.

 

[comfyinvermont]

Hey Mudslide, I think your sister is close with her idea. Back in the twenties up to the fifties, when a kid got their allowance it was usually in pennies. Adults did not tend to lose their change as much as the kids. A kid would carry it around in their pockets and play in the lawn and would lose the pennies. Back around the depression, any cash was vital to existence and they would search long and hard for any lost coin, particularly anything made of silver or nickel.
I have found quite a few wheaties and was not getting too excited about them, until I decided to see how many of the dates I could find. I bought a cheap coin album and started putting them in the album as I found them. I now enjoy finding the wheaties much more than I used too. And you always have to be on the look out for the 1909 S VDB and the other key dates, 1914-D, 1909-S and 1931 S. It adds a little more fun to the hunt. Congrats on the finds...Lance

 

[beetle662]

Nice ring Mudslide!

Keep at it... those silver coins will pop up for you soon. When you dig wheats, that is certainly a good sign.

Check along the edges of the sidewalks, under the big old trees, by the outhouse... these areas have just about always paid off with a silver coin for me. Sometimes, though, they just aren't there.

Best of luck to you, and keep us posted!

 

[Mona Lisa]

Nice hunt, Mudslide. I bet if you went over the yard again real slow and in a different direction, you'll find more goodies.

It was nice of you to give away the ring.