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| March 2010
Who cares that that furry little rodant said... Winter is over... or so I could hope :-) March 1st (Monday)
Hunt #4: I had almost 2 hours of light left after work and headed out to swing the detector... 1st unearthed target was this Sterling Silver Pennant... I can only wonder the significance of 5/23/63... Then out popped this 1945 Washington... I so knew this was a Silver Quarter @ 6"... It pegged the E-Trac ! 12/46 and had the sweetest Minelab silver sound... 1945 Washington Silver Quarter (Silver #8) 10 Minutes and a few Wheat Pennies later... 12/45 Solid @ 6-7" ... Hello Mr. Silver :-) 1951 D Roosevelt Silver Dime (Silver Dime #9) The sun had set and I was losing light fast... and I almost passed up this little blip of a sound... but after a little investigation... there is was at 90 derees as well between the trashy signals... 1954 Roosevelt Silver Dime (Silver #10) The light was all but gone and I was working my the light from a close by building... 5 feet away from the '54 Roosie I got another decent signal... 1939 Mercury Silver Dime (Silver #11) Total was 28 Coins... 2 Quarters. 6 Dimes, and 16 Pennies... 6 Wheat Pennies: 1927, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1944, and 1955D
March 2nd (Tuesday)
Hunt #5: I headed back out to the site I've been working... It was in the low 40's again today and incoming snow is predicted for tomorrow... It took me almost 20 minutes to find my first target... 55 Minutes in silver was shining back up from the dirt at me... 1962 Roosevelt Silver Dime (Silver #12) 10 minutes later.... shiny.... 1948 Roosevelt Silver Dime (Silver #13) Total was 19 coins... 1 Quarter, 3 Dimes, and 15 Pennies... 8 Wheat Pennies: 1952, 1945, 1943, 1957D, 1955, 1942, 1946, and 1947
March 5th (Friday)
Hunt #6: I got out for 2 hours after work tonight... It started out slow and I was praying for a wheat pennies or silver to show up... I got a little patch that included 3 wheat pennies and then this 1951 Roosie popped out at 3-4"... 1951 Roosevelt Silver Dime (Silver #14) A few more wheat pennies... some more clad quarters... Then I got a solid 12/46 at 3" and I assumed it was a clad dime... and there was not much light left... but I could see the silver Mercury head on this dime :-) 1920 S Mercury Dime (Silver #15) Total 49 coins... 8 Quarters, 14 Dimes, and 27 Pennies... 6 Wheat Pennies: 1944, 1957D, 1956D, 1944, 1941, and 1945
March 6th (Saturday)
Hunt #7: It was a 75 coin day with early Wheat Pennies in the mix... New England is warming up! Mid to upper 50's today and I was hunting in a T-Shirt... My 3rd Target was a 1911 wheat penny, and the 5th was a 1918... I was hoping for some Barber action! It was nearly 2 hours before I saw the glint of silver in the hole... The E-Trac was reading 12/45 12/46 at 6"... It was the sweet sound of silver and had me hoping it was silver and not a wheat penny... I cut a good sized plug, flipped it out and the dime waqs smiling back at me... Happy Dance :-) 1948 Roosevelt Silver Dime (Silver #16) 8 Wheat Pennies: 1911, 1916, 1918, 1921, 1940, 1948, 1956, and 1957. Total 75 Coins: 7 Quarters, 16 Dimes, 1 Nickel, and 51 Pennies...
March 7th (Sunday)
Hunt #8: The day started out kind of slow and I switched location twice... and I ended up at a site that had the silver flowing... Total 40 Coins: 4 Quarters, 12 Dimes, and 24 Pennies... 10 Wheat Pennies: 1956, 1957D, 1952D, 1946, 1947, 1941, 1948, 1944, 1942, and 1944. What an awesome day! The temp was perfect to dig, the skys were blue, no breeze to speak of... and the silver was flowing...
1943 Washington Silver Quarter (Silver #17) 1945 Washington Silver Quarter (Silver #18) 1946 Roosevelt Silver Dime (Silver #19) 1946 Roosevelt Silver Dime (Silver #20) 1952 Roosevelt Silver Dime (Silver #21) 1956 Roosevelt Silver Dime (Silver #22) March 17th (Wednesday)
Hunt #9: St. Patrics Day.... and as you can see from the picture on the left there were some old wheat pennies with a nice green patina on them to match the day :-) This day was filled with excitment as I hit my first Dime Trifecta! That is what we call it when you get 3 different ear dimes... In this case... A Barber, a Mercury, and a Roosevelt... Toss in a Sterling Silver ring as well... This first dime to show up was this Roosie... 1950 Roosevelt Silver Dime (Silver #23) 15 Feet away was the next shiny... 1944 Mercury Silver Dime (Silver #24) 20 feet and a few wheat pennies away was this silver dime... 1902 Barber Silver Dime (Silver #25) Two guys and a little lady :-) Total 41 Coins... 3 Quarters, 13 Dimes, and 25 Pennies... 7 Wheat Pennies: 1921, 1923, 1953D, 1958, 19??, 1937, and 1929 March 18th (Thursday)
Hunt #10: I had about 90 minutes of light left at 5:30 when I started this hunt... Working the same site that I got the Dime Trifecta at last night... It was a warm night @ 64 degrees... Targets were not so plentyfull tonight... The key in the left picture was only 3-4" down and is my 1st old skeleton key that is not iron and rusted out... My light was fading fast as I got some shiny :-) 1917 Mercury Silver Dime (Silver #26) Total 17 Coins... 2 Quarters, 8 Dimes, and 7 Pennies... 3 Wheat Pennies: 1910, 1918, and 1920 March 20th (Saturday)
Hunt #11: It was 70 here yesterday... The first day of spring and our part of CT averages 47 degrees... WoW!
I got out to a new spot (School) but righ away noticed the finds and the ground were different... 1985 dime at 8" and a 1917 Wheatie at 4" some fill, some old dirt... Some tabby... parts of ornate door hinges and stuff that was making me think there was stuff here from the 1800's... This 100 X 40 strip I was working was trashy trashy trashy... I kept digging these metal screw covers that read like a quarter @ 2" but they were more like 5-8"....
The wheaties were in the teens / twenties and hard to find amongst the trash.... 1917 then 1920.... a 1925... This 10K Gold Fill pin is for the Royal Air Forces Association... Then I got a 12/47 Quarter signal that was pretty consistant at 6"... Out popped... a tarnished.... spoon... I lined a pot with Tin Foil.... Placed the spoon on the foil... Added boiling water and dumped in some baking soda... It was a fizy show :-) I repeated this process 3 times to get the spoon you see on the left... This was a 12/46 12/47 signal... out popped a large green copper... This coin is a few mm bigger than an American Large Cent and about 1/2 as thick... This coin is a 1904-1905 Chinese Square Dragon... Online Photo:  
March 21st (Sunday)
Hunt #12: I headed back to the spot I was working yesterday... The relics and 1904/05 Chinese Square Coin indicated there was some more goodies possible there from late 1800's to early 1900's... The first target that I flipped the plug for... I was suprised to see this McCormick & Co - Baltimore Bottle... This Sterling Utensil Top can up as a 12/47 @ 6" and I just knew it was a Silver quarter... I was wrong... But hey... SIlver is Silver :-) It wasn't to far into the hunt when this Merc popped out at 6". 1923 Mercury Silver Dime (Silver #27) This metal was deep @ 8" and was a nice find... I thought it was a dog tag at first then I saw the writing and the 1922 date...
December 31 1922
New York Times
"The Amature Bicycling League of America Inc by a working agreement with the National Cycling Association, assumed control of amature cycling and it's membership has passed the 1,130 mark. It conducted a national road race at Atlantic City after a series of elimination events in various states. Eighteen states were represented in the senior event for riders over 15 years of age and eleven states were represented in the junior race. The senior race was won by Carl Hambacher of Newark and the junior by Charles Smithson of Washington D.C."
Judging by this article there were only 1,130 that could have legally competed in the races. 29 went to the finals leaving the ballance of 1,101 to recieve the same pin that you have. How many of those actually survived till this day? Very few I am sure.
March 24th (Wednesday)
Hunt #13: I headed up north to hunt with UMC Dan... We hit a few places... a field that has been producing... wooded area that the 1909 war games were held at... and lastly a town common greens... This colonial buckle rang like a hald dollar @ 4" but was a good 11" down... Insignia of the 101st Regiment Infantry, Massachusetts National Guard This rang out like a silver quarter @ 6"... This 1904 Indian Head came out of the ground very shallow at the site of the 1909 war games... 1904 Indian Head Penny... I had 10 Wheat Pennies in the mix today and this older Canadian Penny... 1921 Canadian Penny... 1st SIlver for the day... 1919 D Mercury Silver Dime (Silver #28) Another silver was not far behind... 5 minutes or so... 1927 S Mercury Silver Dime (Silver #29) 10 minutes later.... 1912 Barber Silver Dime (Silver #30) This nickle was in the hole with a wheat penny... 1944 P Jefferson Silver Nickle (Silver #31) March 26th (Friday)
Hunt #14: It was a long 2 days at work and the 2 hours I got in tonight was just the ticket :-)
7 Wheaties in there gives me 102 Wheat Pennies Year to Date...
Most of the 1919 range Merc's I dig.... DO NOT look like this one... the reverse is exceptional! 1919 Mercury Silver Dime (Silver #32) March 27th (Saturday)
Hunt #15: It started out @ 28 deg. here and never rose above 38... Last weekend it was 70 :-)
I got out for a few hours today and headed back to the site I was working last weekend...
1867 Prussian Coin: Came in at 10/39 on the Etac.. was at 8" range... 1867 1 Silber Groshen Silver Coin (Silver #33)
3rd Nice Sterling Piece of Silverware from this site... March 28th (Sunday)
Hunt #16: I got out for a little bit today... I poked around in a private yard and then hit their woods...
I got a few pieces of clad and off to play in tick land.... Man they were bad out in the woods...
I got a old metal comb, 2 pieces of lead...
I was out in the woods after digging the lead ball and 12 guage slug and hit a spot that I had poked around in before... There were signs on past activity... 1813 Classic Head American Large Cent | |
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