McCDig
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- Jan 31, 2015
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- Fisher F75
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
The park that gave me wheats and buffs on Sunday was my destination for a hunt today.
I headed back to the same area and started off the day with an 1895 Indian head cent, a wheat and a clad dime. I met another detectorist, Eugene, from Fells Point. He has been detecting for about two years. He let me know that he'd found 2 SLQs recently in the area I was detecting. That sounded good to me.
The first silver I found was near the base of a tree and is a childs Sterling ring; it looks Victorian to me, but that's my word for anything "old" looking. Lots of wheats today as well. I made it back eventually to the slope by the trees and dug a 1920 Buffalo, but there was another signal in the hole; it turned out to be the 1899O Barber quarter. This park has been really good to me on Barber quarters; today's was number four or five. Somewhere amongst all the digs I came up with a bottle cap, but there was another signal in the hole and that was the gold-toned ring that is marked "HONG KONG"; this tested out as 18K but it may be plated and I could have been testing the plating. Toward the end of the hunt, as I was circling the area, the 1940 Merc turned up; it was actually in the sidewall and I could just as easily put a gash along it with the shovel. The wheats today numbered 11, with 7 dating from 1914 through 1937. Really like this new shovel from Predator tools; it's good on roots and does not bend! Definitely dug the usual trash: deep iron, pull tabs, can slaw, aluminum bottle caps and steel bottle tops, but I think the good targets had the "upper hand" today.
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I headed back to the same area and started off the day with an 1895 Indian head cent, a wheat and a clad dime. I met another detectorist, Eugene, from Fells Point. He has been detecting for about two years. He let me know that he'd found 2 SLQs recently in the area I was detecting. That sounded good to me.
The first silver I found was near the base of a tree and is a childs Sterling ring; it looks Victorian to me, but that's my word for anything "old" looking. Lots of wheats today as well. I made it back eventually to the slope by the trees and dug a 1920 Buffalo, but there was another signal in the hole; it turned out to be the 1899O Barber quarter. This park has been really good to me on Barber quarters; today's was number four or five. Somewhere amongst all the digs I came up with a bottle cap, but there was another signal in the hole and that was the gold-toned ring that is marked "HONG KONG"; this tested out as 18K but it may be plated and I could have been testing the plating. Toward the end of the hunt, as I was circling the area, the 1940 Merc turned up; it was actually in the sidewall and I could just as easily put a gash along it with the shovel. The wheats today numbered 11, with 7 dating from 1914 through 1937. Really like this new shovel from Predator tools; it's good on roots and does not bend! Definitely dug the usual trash: deep iron, pull tabs, can slaw, aluminum bottle caps and steel bottle tops, but I think the good targets had the "upper hand" today.
Thanks for checking out the picks!
Thanks for
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