AirmetTango
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A gorgeous day in NW Ohio today, so with 90 minutes to kill, I went back to a nearby park that's rewarded me with a surprising number of silver coins over my last couple trips. In last week's visit, one hole produced a '41 GW quarter, '44 Merc, and a '41 Wheat for a nifty double silver spill. Over the weekend, another short hunt produced a '48 GW quarter and a dateless Buff from one hole and a '43 War Nickel out of another. A separate hunt earlier this week produced 4 Wheats each in their own whole that I didn't post about, but a pic appears below - all of those were from 7-8" down.
Twenty minutes after arriving today, I got over another one of the jumpy VDI signals in the 6" range that has become the signature sound of "potential spill" on this site - this one was more of a no-brainer than some of the others, as the VDI stayed pretty high, just bouncing around from 78 or so to 83 or 84. Dug down about 5" to find my first Rosie of the year, a 1947D, tucked in with a '41 Wheat! The Rosie is my 12th silver coin for the year - not an earth shattering number, but great for me considering I only got 7 silver coins all last year
The 5 silvers from this park alone represents my entire lead over last year!
Anyway, I'm definitely seeing a trend - all of the silver I've found here have been mixed in with other coins that have junked up the signal. The only exception was the War Nickel, but that signal was jumpy as well, presumably just the nature of the War Nickel and it's silver content. There's no doubt this park has been hunted before - my only explanation is folks must have skipped the junkier signals to cherry pick the obvious high tones?
Also, not all of the bouncy 6" signals were good, of course. Soon after the Rosie/Wheat hole, I came across a couple of signals that showed the right depth and "bounciness" that I swore I had another spill - nope, one was can slaw at 4 or 5" down, another was a dang bottle cap. You get the idea...the full hunt shot below documents all the rest of the stuff that fooled me when I should've known better
The other cool keeper was my first BSA neckerchief slide! Not sure how old, but it wasn't deep, and it's in pretty nice shape. Rang up a pretty solid 73-74 on the Max - the VDI shifted a little as I turned around it, probably because of the shape, in hindsight. Indicated 2" down, and frankly sounded like a surface find. Half expecting to find can slaw in the grass or just under the surface, the pinpointer sounded off right on the ground. "Yep, can slaw", I said, but dug anyway - I still had to go down about 2-3", but I was pleased to see the slide pop out, almost perfectly clean except for a clump of dirt stuck behind the clips in the back. The full hunt shot shows the slide before cleaning, and the close up is after cleaning with running water, dawn, and a toothbrush...not much difference!
The harmonica reed bit was a minor surprise - I don't recall finding one in a park setting before. I've never played a harmonica and don't know much about them, but I guess the reeds get changed periodically? I suppose someone did just that here at some point in the past. I'm still mildly amused that I've found a zillion pieces of harmonica reeds while detecting, and never a single harmonica body!!
Anyways, thanks for looking, and enduring a wicked long post about two coins and a kerchief slide!
Twenty minutes after arriving today, I got over another one of the jumpy VDI signals in the 6" range that has become the signature sound of "potential spill" on this site - this one was more of a no-brainer than some of the others, as the VDI stayed pretty high, just bouncing around from 78 or so to 83 or 84. Dug down about 5" to find my first Rosie of the year, a 1947D, tucked in with a '41 Wheat! The Rosie is my 12th silver coin for the year - not an earth shattering number, but great for me considering I only got 7 silver coins all last year
The 5 silvers from this park alone represents my entire lead over last year!Anyway, I'm definitely seeing a trend - all of the silver I've found here have been mixed in with other coins that have junked up the signal. The only exception was the War Nickel, but that signal was jumpy as well, presumably just the nature of the War Nickel and it's silver content. There's no doubt this park has been hunted before - my only explanation is folks must have skipped the junkier signals to cherry pick the obvious high tones?
Also, not all of the bouncy 6" signals were good, of course. Soon after the Rosie/Wheat hole, I came across a couple of signals that showed the right depth and "bounciness" that I swore I had another spill - nope, one was can slaw at 4 or 5" down, another was a dang bottle cap. You get the idea...the full hunt shot below documents all the rest of the stuff that fooled me when I should've known better
The other cool keeper was my first BSA neckerchief slide! Not sure how old, but it wasn't deep, and it's in pretty nice shape. Rang up a pretty solid 73-74 on the Max - the VDI shifted a little as I turned around it, probably because of the shape, in hindsight. Indicated 2" down, and frankly sounded like a surface find. Half expecting to find can slaw in the grass or just under the surface, the pinpointer sounded off right on the ground. "Yep, can slaw", I said, but dug anyway - I still had to go down about 2-3", but I was pleased to see the slide pop out, almost perfectly clean except for a clump of dirt stuck behind the clips in the back. The full hunt shot shows the slide before cleaning, and the close up is after cleaning with running water, dawn, and a toothbrush...not much difference!
The harmonica reed bit was a minor surprise - I don't recall finding one in a park setting before. I've never played a harmonica and don't know much about them, but I guess the reeds get changed periodically? I suppose someone did just that here at some point in the past. I'm still mildly amused that I've found a zillion pieces of harmonica reeds while detecting, and never a single harmonica body!!
Anyways, thanks for looking, and enduring a wicked long post about two coins and a kerchief slide!
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