I've taken a second job this summer on top of the job at the greenhouse. I'm now teaching ballet to the level 1 and 2 classes at the dance studio. But it means my free time is reduced. But I had today off and decided to go hit a park I've never hunted to see what came up. Unfortunately, after 90 minutes of hunting I had nothing but modern stuff without even a hint of anything older. So I packed up my Nox and decided to head home.
As I was loading up I noticed an elderly lady across the street struggling to put on a new set of wiper blades (she said the auto part store wanted $10 to install them). So I went over to see if I could help. Ten minutes later the two of us figured out how they worked and got them changed out.
I tend to be a shy person and can't come up with the courage to door knock to ask permission to hunt a yard. But I braved it with her and asked. Her house was built in 1926 and she told me to have fun.
Three hours later I had 82 clad coins, 7 wheaties, a buffalo nickel, a silver Rosie, a Mercury, a small silver ring, and my first Eisenhower dollar (1977). I also got a couple of fishing weights, an old looking marble, and a Tootsie toy dragster. Unfortunately it came up in two pieces.
That yard was loaded with stuff. The crazy thing is that except for the Mercury everything I found was detectable by my pinpointer from the surface. Even that old buffalo nickel was only two inches down.
I thought it was a great hunt. But then the lady comes out of her house with an old coin purse and told me that she had a bunch of coins her sister had collected and she didn't want them any longer. And so she gave them to me! I haven't been through them in detail, but there is some silver in them and two British large One Penny coins from 1919 and 1934.
What a day!
As I was loading up I noticed an elderly lady across the street struggling to put on a new set of wiper blades (she said the auto part store wanted $10 to install them). So I went over to see if I could help. Ten minutes later the two of us figured out how they worked and got them changed out.
I tend to be a shy person and can't come up with the courage to door knock to ask permission to hunt a yard. But I braved it with her and asked. Her house was built in 1926 and she told me to have fun.
Three hours later I had 82 clad coins, 7 wheaties, a buffalo nickel, a silver Rosie, a Mercury, a small silver ring, and my first Eisenhower dollar (1977). I also got a couple of fishing weights, an old looking marble, and a Tootsie toy dragster. Unfortunately it came up in two pieces.
That yard was loaded with stuff. The crazy thing is that except for the Mercury everything I found was detectable by my pinpointer from the surface. Even that old buffalo nickel was only two inches down.
I thought it was a great hunt. But then the lady comes out of her house with an old coin purse and told me that she had a bunch of coins her sister had collected and she didn't want them any longer. And so she gave them to me! I haven't been through them in detail, but there is some silver in them and two British large One Penny coins from 1919 and 1934.
What a day!
