Raining Rodeo nickels & Durango silver dollars ---

[Ron B]

Raining Rodeo nickels & Durango silver dollars ---

Saturday
July 7, 2007

The outlaw fired, hitting the Marshall in his chest. The 45 bullet twanged, ricocheting, slinging bits of a silver star; raising whiffs of dust on Durango's empty street ---

With reports of 200 & 300 plus coin days, I realize my paltry sum of 107 coins in 5 hours won't break any records except for me. What makes my hunt today unique is of the 107 coins 86 were nickels. My best nickel day ever occurred just last week and was 16! The Trinidad Rodeo Arena and Fairgrounds is nothing special. However, during the rodeo, for whatever reason the rodeo clowns toss nickels into the arena for the kids to pick up after the rodeo. Here's a picture of my take, using Little Miss SE with 17.5 Excelerator coil for the last two days which includes a trip back to the church at Cokedale. The only silver I found was someone made a bridle stud out of a 1961 dime Those casings are Starline's 45 caliber blanks. The silver dollar, or so I thought turned out to be a silver plated horse ornament; Marshall Lesche savaged revenge ---

COIN COUNT:
19.5 Lincolns
111 Nickels
07 Dimes
07 Quarters

TOTAL 144.5 COINS VALUE $8.19 & 1/2 cents


Thank you for your interest,
GRB

July 6 & 7, 2007 Loot

 

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[Boobydoo]

Re: Raining Rodeo nickels & Durango silver dollars ---

Looks like an awesome haul of finds to me, congrats on all the nice finds!

Smiles!
BDoo

 

[piggman1]

Re: Raining Rodeo nickels & Durango silver dollars ---

Cool Finds!

 

[weasel606]

Re: Raining Rodeo nickels & Durango silver dollars ---

very nice finds Roy ! congrats

 

[Captn SE]

Re: Raining Rodeo nickels & Durango silver dollars ---

Wow, GRB, I don't think I've seen a post with more nickels....Congrats!!!

You'll pick up some silver on your next hunt.

HH,
CAPTN SE
Dan

 

[Merf]

Re: Raining Rodeo nickels & Durango silver dollars ---

Nice finds Roy--A good hunt

 

[Sheldius]

Re: Raining Rodeo nickels & Durango silver dollars ---

Wow, good job. You reached my YEARLY nickel goal in one day. Congrats.

HH.

 

[Prober]

Re: Raining Rodeo nickels & Durango silver dollars ---

Great nickel finds there, ain't ya glad they sent in the clowns?

 

[Ron B]

Re: Raining Rodeo nickels & Durango silver dollars ---

Hello Guys!
Thanks for commenting, it was fun finding all those nickels.

What was strange ( or not so strange) nickels read all over the place on my SE. I'm certain it had something to do with using the larger 17.5 coil. The F-75 ID'ed most correctly. Of course I was using the standard coil the electronics were calibrated for.

Here's a better picture of the "Horse Dollar"

GRB

 

[RUDY2003]

Re: Raining Rodeo nickels & Durango silver dollars ---

Nice diggs GRB!
I haven't thought of rodeo arenas for detecting....

Keep safe and keep diggin'...

 

[Ron B]

Re: Raining Rodeo nickels & Durango silver dollars ---

Hi Rudy!
Once you get pass all the horse shoe nails and steel saddle workings it's not a bad place to hunt in AMM! However, don't expect to find much unless there's some sort of history of coin tossing for the kids. It's one more place to add to the list of MD'ing areas. Just watch out for the cow patties and horse dumplings; they can mess up a good pair of white sneakers.

GRB

 

[steve m]

Re: Raining Rodeo nickels & Durango silver dollars ---

Man, thats a lot of nickles! My best nickle day is only in the mid 20's.
Nice!
Steve///

 

[history hunter]

Re: Raining Rodeo nickels & Durango silver dollars ---

WTG