Unexpected Coin Hunt

[schoolofhardNox]

So I decided to spend the day at the mill where I recycle. Lots of hard labor 😄. I'm almost there and I pass this old park that I tell myself I am going to detect one day. It's about 20 minutes from my house to the mill. What do I see there?....... Are ALL the sidewalks torn away?  😲😲😲. Crap, I turned around and went back home and grabbed the Manticore. Hopefully the city dump truck parked there will not kick me out. Nope, smooth sailing. I must have been the second person to detect there, since I could only come up with 5 cents. Tons of nails and small bits of junk. Not a silver or nickle signal to be found. I hunted all of the trenches for about 2 hours and that was it. But I'm happy with the 4 Indians as they were older than most Indians I would get out of parks. This park was very active in the 1890's. I did detect the grass for a while and got no high conductors and it was very sparse on any targets. Someone has probably been hammering this place for years. I may try the GPX there, but it is a very sketchy neighborhood.  Target of opportunity is the name of the game sometimes.

[JCR]

Pretty nice condition coins too.

[UT Dave]

Very nice!  I did a similar u-turn for a sidewalk tear out on one side of the state capitol about six weeks ago and got nothing worth mentioning.

- Dave

[CPT_GhostLight]

Way to jump on that opportunity, sohN, and congrats on the coppers, well done!

[Valens Legacy]

Nice to say the least and couldn't have happened to a better person.

I missed the chance to check out the ground when the County replaced the side walks at the old court house.

Good luck on your next hunt.

[jim tn]

 Good catch on the park tear outs. Those are some nice, older, I H's. HH jim tn

[F350Platinum]

Nice opportunity.

I'm sure if there was anything other than Indian Heads there you would have found it. 👍

I miss finding IHPs. If that 1864 is more copper than bronze it's a rare bird. It definitely has more of a copper look to it! 

[rvpopeye]

I'd call that a not too shabby haul right thayah ! 

👍

 

[mn90403]

Good stop!  Some of the improvements on a site hide some goodies.

I keep kicking myself for not stopping at a school auditorium near me that was torn down a couple of years ago ... and then there was a caferteria ...

[schoolofhardNox]

On 9/2/2023 at 8:18 PM, JCR said:

Pretty nice condition coins too.

Surprisingly good condition in my neck of the woods. They look better in real life too. I was shocked by the fact that there were no pits in the fields section of the coin. Smooth.

On 9/2/2023 at 10:05 PM, UT Dave said:

Very nice!  I did a similar u-turn for a sidewalk tear out on one side of the state capitol about six weeks ago and got nothing worth mentioning.

- Dave

I don't do them very often, but they are usually a bust for me as well.

On 9/3/2023 at 2:39 AM, CPT_GhostLight said:

Way to jump on that opportunity, sohN, and congrats on the coppers, well done!

Thanks. I have to fight myself to drive back home and do this, but it just looked too good to be true 😄

On 9/3/2023 at 4:12 AM, Valens Legacy said:

Nice to say the least and couldn't have happened to a better person.

I missed the chance to check out the ground when the County replaced the side walks at the old court house.

Good luck on your next hunt.

Thank You. Even though I didn't get silver (which would have been Seated or Barber), I was very happy to get Indians. I got to do some old area dirt hunting again. I really miss it.

On 9/3/2023 at 7:36 AM, jim tn said:

 Good catch on the park tear outs. Those are some nice, older, I H's. HH jim tn

Thanks. Usually they are 1900's Indians. That was the first thing I noticed was the earlier dates. Was hoping for a  '77 but no dice!

On 9/4/2023 at 7:46 AM, F350Platinum said:

Nice opportunity.

I'm sure if there was anything other than Indian Heads there you would have found it. 👍

I miss finding IHPs. If that 1864 is more copper than bronze it's a rare bird. It definitely has more of a copper look to it! 

Same here, I miss finding Indians as well. I never get the rare stuff, so it's bronze by default. 😅.

3 hours ago, rvpopeye said:

I'd call that a not too shabby haul right thayah ! 

👍

 

Thank ya. It was just enough to get the old blood pressure up a bit.

1 hour ago, mn90403 said:

Good stop!  Some of the improvements on a site hide some goodies.

I keep kicking myself for not stopping at a school auditorium near me that was torn down a couple of years ago ... and then there was a caferteria ...

I've missed so many opportunities over the years that I've lost count. The biggest one was a huge pond that was drained for 1 year before I saw a You Tube video on it. It goes back to colonial times. Only 15 minutes from my house 😭 By the time I went there, The reeds grew back, but I still pulled 2 gold rings from it. I cringe to tell you whet others found there. 🙄