LovestheShiny!
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My wife and I recently headed out to the South King County Washington State area to stay with her parents for a couple of weeks. I was able to get out for partial days (between the rain!) quite a few times, also got to detect a full day with RainorShine and Buellride one day in Tacoma WA. Good to see you guys and thanks for the fun day of chasing coins! One observation that stood out is that regular folks are frightened of the homeless and crime, as almost every house I detected had a video doorbell and a big barking dog or two! Another observation is that this area of the state has been POUNDED - many yards with nothing or just a few copper Memorial Cents, and long sections of curb strips with not even a wheat cent. Some of the curbs had a lot of clad dimes and quarters, along with copper cents and zincolns, indicating that they had not been hunted in many years, but previously hunted so that any old coin was long gone. While I did load up on the clad, I had to really persist in detecting to come across wheat cents and silvers.
Without getting into the day to day, I ended up doing fairly well, and considering Montana is still frozen up, I was very thankful to make some good finds. The 1920-S Walking Liberty half, the Standing Liberty Quarter, and both Silver GW quarters came out of curb strips. Most of the Silver Dimes came out of curb strips, and out of all the silvers, only the War Nickel, a couple of the Merc Dimes, and a couple of the Silver Rosies came out of yards. I must have gotten permission and detected at least 50-60 front yards and the vast majority were coin wastelands, with perhaps a single wheat cent and a few modern coins. I can think of two good yards, one had that beautiful 1915 Panama Pacific (rang up a "99" on the AT Pro!), the other had a Merc and Rosie, along with the Folger's Coffee detective badge. One of the neatest finds was a WW1 Victory Medal, found in a yard, shown in closeup photos. Photos show silvers, clad, oddities, wheats, copper cents. The "REST ASSURED" pin is from the 593rd Support Batallion at Fort Lewis JBLM near Tacoma. One green wheatie turned out to be a 1910-S, a semi-key date. Other odd finds were 1945 Mexican 20 Centavos, 1937 3 Pence British, found a clad Kennedy, a Dollar coin, a Silver Thimble, and a Pontiac Chief of the Sixes GM coin. The nice ladies compact was a gift from Buellride, thank you!
I would have liked to detect a bit more there but had choices limited by the rain, and family events. In the non-silver department I ended up with 70 wheat cents, 230 copper Memorial cents, 21 nickels, 110 clad dimes, and 86 clad quarters. In my pursuit of older coins and silvers, I did not dig all the nickel / pull tab signals. Anyway, great to get out, thank you for your interest!
Without getting into the day to day, I ended up doing fairly well, and considering Montana is still frozen up, I was very thankful to make some good finds. The 1920-S Walking Liberty half, the Standing Liberty Quarter, and both Silver GW quarters came out of curb strips. Most of the Silver Dimes came out of curb strips, and out of all the silvers, only the War Nickel, a couple of the Merc Dimes, and a couple of the Silver Rosies came out of yards. I must have gotten permission and detected at least 50-60 front yards and the vast majority were coin wastelands, with perhaps a single wheat cent and a few modern coins. I can think of two good yards, one had that beautiful 1915 Panama Pacific (rang up a "99" on the AT Pro!), the other had a Merc and Rosie, along with the Folger's Coffee detective badge. One of the neatest finds was a WW1 Victory Medal, found in a yard, shown in closeup photos. Photos show silvers, clad, oddities, wheats, copper cents. The "REST ASSURED" pin is from the 593rd Support Batallion at Fort Lewis JBLM near Tacoma. One green wheatie turned out to be a 1910-S, a semi-key date. Other odd finds were 1945 Mexican 20 Centavos, 1937 3 Pence British, found a clad Kennedy, a Dollar coin, a Silver Thimble, and a Pontiac Chief of the Sixes GM coin. The nice ladies compact was a gift from Buellride, thank you!
I would have liked to detect a bit more there but had choices limited by the rain, and family events. In the non-silver department I ended up with 70 wheat cents, 230 copper Memorial cents, 21 nickels, 110 clad dimes, and 86 clad quarters. In my pursuit of older coins and silvers, I did not dig all the nickel / pull tab signals. Anyway, great to get out, thank you for your interest!
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