73 Springfield
Junior Member
- Joined
- Jul 23, 2007
- Messages
- 30
I went to a tot lot to practice a bit. There was a sand volley ball court also, and I never got a hit of any kind there. So I went over to the tot lot. They had all metal slides and swings etc. so the area to search was greatly restricted. The sand was loose for about the first 3 inches, then it was a hard pan. I found a 1972 penny that was totally green gunge, and a zinc penny that I don't think I could spend it's so rotten. It's gained thickness and is crumbly. On my third hit, the MXT told me it was a Zinc penny. It was down in the hard pan, so I used my sand scoop and scraped away until I got a hit in the sand pile I was making. Then I scooped, all the sand ran out, and nothing. I swept the pile again, and I had several hits, with nothing large enough to stay in the sand scoop. I filled the hole, figuring that it was a rotten penny that broke up from my scraping. I've found a lot of zinc pennies lately that are almost unidentifiable, and it doesn't seem like they need to be in the ground very long for them to rot away. Also clad quarters and dimes seem to rot also. Is it the soil where I live, or does everyone have this problem. I find this at the beach where one would think the salt would cause it, but the soil here is not salty.