ShovelinDave
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- Jul 11, 2009
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Howdy Folks, I got permission on some woods about two years ago. There are 80 acres all together. I call them the spoon woods and I'll show you why. If it's too windy to be out in the fields I usually make my way to these woods. There is one spot that has produced some old coins and relics. I've hit this spot several times and I always come out with a couple of keepers. Last weekend I decided to try a different area of the woods. There was a lot of standing water on the ground so I stuck to the high parts. It is also very thick with a lot of saplings. I found a 1919 wheat cent and kept going. I then found a small coin spill and one of the coins was a first for me. An 1895 Barber Quarter. Whenever I read a thread about someone finding a first. I usually congratulate them and tell them they should start finding them more often. I say this because of my own experience.
Yesterday was nice enough to get out for a couple of hours. I made my way back to the woods to the same area I was at last week. The first decent sounding target was another wheat cent. It might even be another 1919 but is hard to read. I keep at it when I get a nice sounding target that is hitting a solid 82 on the VDI. I'm thinking a silver dime but it's louder than normal. I dig it up and take it to be a piece of aluminum can. I have seen maybe one aluminum can in the woods since I've been coming here. I find more cork top bottles laying around on the ground than anything else. Anyway, as I unfold it and remove the dirt I can see it's a silver spoon bowl. Nice score. About a foot away, I get another 82 on the VDI. Dig it up and there is the handle. Score again, sweet. I keep going, jabbing my coil into those hard to reach areas and I get a mid-tone sound with a high chirp following. There are plenty of mid-tones in these woods and I'll show you that as well. So I dig the target and pop the plug. I can see a round, silver something in the hole. Sure enough, it's my second Barber Quarter in a week. I find more relics than I do silver. This year it's starting out nicely on the silver side. I'll let the pics tell the rest and thanks for looking. SD
The spoons, the mid-tone trash, last weeks coin spill.
Silver spoon-Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co. 1895-1898. 1905 Barber Quarter. Gold plated cuff link. The last pic is another silver spoon I found in the woods-Whiting Manufacturing Co. 1885 release date.
Yesterday was nice enough to get out for a couple of hours. I made my way back to the woods to the same area I was at last week. The first decent sounding target was another wheat cent. It might even be another 1919 but is hard to read. I keep at it when I get a nice sounding target that is hitting a solid 82 on the VDI. I'm thinking a silver dime but it's louder than normal. I dig it up and take it to be a piece of aluminum can. I have seen maybe one aluminum can in the woods since I've been coming here. I find more cork top bottles laying around on the ground than anything else. Anyway, as I unfold it and remove the dirt I can see it's a silver spoon bowl. Nice score. About a foot away, I get another 82 on the VDI. Dig it up and there is the handle. Score again, sweet. I keep going, jabbing my coil into those hard to reach areas and I get a mid-tone sound with a high chirp following. There are plenty of mid-tones in these woods and I'll show you that as well. So I dig the target and pop the plug. I can see a round, silver something in the hole. Sure enough, it's my second Barber Quarter in a week. I find more relics than I do silver. This year it's starting out nicely on the silver side. I'll let the pics tell the rest and thanks for looking. SD
The spoons, the mid-tone trash, last weeks coin spill.
Silver spoon-Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co. 1895-1898. 1905 Barber Quarter. Gold plated cuff link. The last pic is another silver spoon I found in the woods-Whiting Manufacturing Co. 1885 release date.
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