Theres no place like home!

[goldmonkey07]

There's no place like home!

Decided to try my luck at detecting in my own yard today after work and boy did I get the signals, even though I was in "coin" mode. While most of the signals turned out to be nails, screws, and the like, I did manage to find these keepers before being forced to quit by my wife and son. My wife was freaking out about me swiss cheesing the lawn and my son was afraid one of his friends would drive by and see his geek dad in the lawn.

I found a silver 1961 dime, an 1890 IH penny, two newer quarters, two old Jefferson nickles, a bunch of wheat pennies and some memorial pennies. The chunk of metal between the button and key appears to be copper, and the chunk on the other side of the key is lead. The two small aluminum coins in the upper right are play money dated 1969.

Every item I find, no matter how mundane, just makes me that much more enthused about this hobbie. I also learned today that I don't have to go far away from home to have a good time detecting.

 

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[favored papa]

Re: There's no place like home!

man I am green with envy 2 silver out of your own yard, silver rosie and a war nickel. congrats.

 

[Mr Tuff]

Re: There's no place like home!

nice finds on the Ih and silver MR TUFF

 

[goldmonkey07]

Re: There's no place like home!

I didn't realize the nickle was silver!

 

[Tuberale]

Re: There's no place like home!

Decided to try my luck at detecting in my own yard today after work and boy did I get the signals, even though I was in "coin" mode. While most of the signals turned out to be nails, screws, and the like, I did manage to find these keepers before being forced to quit by my wife and son. My wife was freaking out about me swiss cheesing the lawn and my son was afraid one of his friends would drive by and see his geek dad in the lawn.

I found a silver 1961 dime, an 1890 IH penny, two newer quarters, two old Jefferson nickles, a bunch of wheat pennies and some memorial pennies. The chunk of metal between the button and key appears to be copper, and the chunk on the other side of the key is lead. The two small aluminum coins in the upper right are play money dated 1969.

Every item I find, no matter how mundane, just makes me that much more enthused about this hobbie. I also learned today that I don't have to go far away from home to have a good time detecting.

Try cleaning that upper right-hand lump with an old tooth brush: looks like it might be more than a lump of aluminum, maybe lead or silver.

 

[Tattooguy67]

Re: There's no place like home!

Hey there GoldMonkey07, looks like the home place did you well! nice finds, and just tell your wife that the digging is a good way to aireate the lawn and yes that looks to be what they call a silver war nickel, easiest way to tell is if it has a big mint mark above the dome on Monticello, here is a link to more info
http://warnickels.com/ and according to coinflation it is worth 99 cents! so good work all around. Also it really does not matter what you do, you will be an embarrassment to your boy, just the way it works.

Chuck.