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This story starts with a hunt in a nearby Idaho town, corner lot, excellent front yard area! This yard produced a 1901 Indian Head Cent, 1907 and 1910 "V" Nickels, 1925, 1927, and 1936 Buffalo Nickels, 1917-S Merc and a nice 1928-S Mercury Dime, and what may be a small gold ring (have not tested it yet). Got some wheat cents, and the two silver coins were #97 and #98 for the year.
A few days later, I met my friend Gale (RainorShine on the FF) in Tacoma, had most of the day to detect with him, and did ok, ended up with 2 silver coins (Merc and Silver Rosie) along with about 15 wheat cents, a cricket pin, Tacoma dog tag, WA State tax token, and some cool odds and ends. Gale had a tuff day, no silvers and one wheat cent, some days detecting are like that. Other than one Screaming Karen, we met a lot of friendly people, hunted some permissions and detected quite a few curb strips. The Silver Rosie got me to 100 silver coins for the year.
A couple of days later I headed out to an antique insulator show in the Spokane area, turned out that due to the recent National Insulator Association show in Helena Montana, there were not many dealers that set up at this outdoor show. I spent Friday and early Saturday morning at the show, made some purchases and then thought... why not detect Spokane as I still had my AT Pro with me. That turned out to be a good decision as I had my best day ever detecting in Spokane, and my best in quite a while.
I chose a couple of blocks at random, based on the homes dating late 1890s-1910s with good size front yards and what looked like original soil and lawn. I ended up with 7 yard permissions, and did the curb strips in front of these homes. Friendly people, nice cooler sunny weather, and some neat finds. I detected for 7 hours before heading back to Idaho. Totals for the day were 8 silvers (5 Merc Dimes, 2 Silver Rosies, 1 Silver War Nickel), 1889, 1907 (2) Indian Head Cents, a very nice 1910 V Nickel, a cool "Cheney Cash Store / Cheney, Wash. / Good for 50 Cents in Trade" merchant token, a bus token from New Britain, CT. (wonder how that got to Spokane?) a no date Buffalo Nickel, some older Jefferson Nickels, over 40 wheat cents (I was digging those everywhere!), a couple of older amusement tokens, a copper bracelet, clad quarters and dimes, and copper Memorial cents. The silver coins found put me at 108 for the year. Am grateful for some good detecting days, pictures follow, thank you for your interest!
A few days later, I met my friend Gale (RainorShine on the FF) in Tacoma, had most of the day to detect with him, and did ok, ended up with 2 silver coins (Merc and Silver Rosie) along with about 15 wheat cents, a cricket pin, Tacoma dog tag, WA State tax token, and some cool odds and ends. Gale had a tuff day, no silvers and one wheat cent, some days detecting are like that. Other than one Screaming Karen, we met a lot of friendly people, hunted some permissions and detected quite a few curb strips. The Silver Rosie got me to 100 silver coins for the year.
A couple of days later I headed out to an antique insulator show in the Spokane area, turned out that due to the recent National Insulator Association show in Helena Montana, there were not many dealers that set up at this outdoor show. I spent Friday and early Saturday morning at the show, made some purchases and then thought... why not detect Spokane as I still had my AT Pro with me. That turned out to be a good decision as I had my best day ever detecting in Spokane, and my best in quite a while.
I chose a couple of blocks at random, based on the homes dating late 1890s-1910s with good size front yards and what looked like original soil and lawn. I ended up with 7 yard permissions, and did the curb strips in front of these homes. Friendly people, nice cooler sunny weather, and some neat finds. I detected for 7 hours before heading back to Idaho. Totals for the day were 8 silvers (5 Merc Dimes, 2 Silver Rosies, 1 Silver War Nickel), 1889, 1907 (2) Indian Head Cents, a very nice 1910 V Nickel, a cool "Cheney Cash Store / Cheney, Wash. / Good for 50 Cents in Trade" merchant token, a bus token from New Britain, CT. (wonder how that got to Spokane?) a no date Buffalo Nickel, some older Jefferson Nickels, over 40 wheat cents (I was digging those everywhere!), a couple of older amusement tokens, a copper bracelet, clad quarters and dimes, and copper Memorial cents. The silver coins found put me at 108 for the year. Am grateful for some good detecting days, pictures follow, thank you for your interest!
