LovestheShiny!
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I had to run a few chores in Lewiston yesterday, Saturday morning, and had about a 3 hour window to detect before rain was coming in. Packed the AT Pro and managed to get 5 permissions, all homes were shown on my 1928 Lewiston Sanborn map. The first was a 1921 home, small front yard, only a couple of wheat cents. Caught the neighbor coming home, got the ok, and only a few wheat cents. A couple of houses away, the nice young lady gave me permission for her home, decent yard size, but only more wheat cents. As I walked down the curb (I detected it with typical zero finds other than clad) I noticed that some machinery had scraped a front yard area (home was gone) and the curb strip out front. Roots from plants and trees were showing and the dirt was nice and powdery. The lot was being turned into a parking lot, mostly already graveled but a small area out front was just plain dirt and roots. Started in and began to find wheat cents, then a cool 1931 dog's head shaped Lewiston dog tag. More wheaties, and finally my only silver for the day, a 1919 worn Merc Dime. Another high tone with a bit of iron grunt gave me a really cool 1932 Lewiston dog tag, followed by a Buffalo Nickel, rifle cartridge, old button, lead ball, and a few more wheat cents. The torn up curb gave more wheaties. I ended up with 20 wheat cents and only one silver, a pretty poor ratio but no complaints as I did get one shiny! The last yard to detect was 1920s in a different area of town, two wheat cents were all that were found. Pictures follow, thank you for your interest!
