2 Indians today! and a little more...
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Beautiful early spring day here in Northern NY, but still most areas have alot of hard packed snow/ice cover. Decided to drive by the local park/campground that has been so good to me in the past couple of years, yielding plenty of old coins (even an 1852) large cent last year, it was still partially covered and the road back into blocked with snow and I didn't want to chance getting stuck (even though I have 4 wheel drive), but I did have my boots...and could see the area where I found the most old coins- most likely the old beach area and it was frost free. I've thought to myself a couple of times that I have the place pretty much hunted out, but then again... something good comes along. On my walk back in I passed a large old oak and thought to myself this looks like a good spot to get some shade in the summer time- but surely I must have searched around its base a few times in the past, yet it didn't look familar- maybe just because of all the snow on the ground around it, anyways I got a strong signal right at the base shortly after turning my detector on, and what do you know- a 1956-D wheatie on the first hole/signal of the day! Always nice to start off the day with something old. I did a quick sweep of the area, but most of it still had frost being in the woods and continued on towards the shoreline. I stopped by an old stump that was adjacent to a small area that yielded a buffalo nickel and a couple of Indian head pennies last fall and did a quick sweep-again I was sure I had covered this area before. I got an iffy quarter size signal and thought to myself sure would be nice to find my first quarter of the year finally, dug into the soil and soon saw a dark slug bigger than a penny- figured it was just going to be an clad quarter, but not so today, here's what was looking back at me (after a quick clean up at home):
A 1913 T1 ! Yet a little dissapointment- so close to a Liberty V nickel - I've yet to find one of them. This is just my third buffalo, and all so far have had dates, this one has spent along time in the ground, and the 1913 is just barely visible, but its clearly a type 1 mound buffalo anyways. So I'm thinking it might not be a bad day after all and continue down towards the water digging a couple more targets (this means alot of old bottle caps an pull tabs) I did hit another wheatie and a couple of memorials as well- the wheatie was a 1956, no mintmark this time. When I got to the shoreline the water was nearly cresting the top of the river bank and had the sandy area competely covered- I like to hit this area when the water first recedes every year because of the shoreline erosion- the ice chunks and water take out huge parts of the bank- last year I found a 40's Mercury laying just submerged after the water receded- must have come out of the bank. Will have to wait a couple of weeks or more this year for the water to go down. I worked the bank area some more- its littered with lots of old bottle caps and pull tabs, but its also were I dug the large cent last year. I dug one iffy signal - signal kept going from pull tab to just over a penny. Sure enough a Schafer bottle cap- I've probably dug hundreds of them here, I passed the detector over the hole again and there was still a strong signal there, dug a little more and found a 1945 wheatie. This got me thinking that as trashy as this area was, but as small and loaded with coins that it has been, that there just might be more hidden targets like this in some of those iffy signals. I continued on the waters edge, sometimes I also think ( I know this could be dangerous- too much thinking) the water pressure from the bank might be pushing some objects up in soil as well this time of year, and judging by the number of pull tabs I dug today, they would be the easiest to move. Working along I got one really solid signal- and well you could say I got some silver today- a WMRogers silver plated spoon, I think it was always such a strong signal I passed over it before believing it was probably a whole can- have dug a few of them here as well. The pull tab/bottle cap theory was the plan, but the results were so-so, I dug in one hole and got three items after three sweeps - all bottle caps, and in another the same - but three pull tabs. But finally after nearly a half an hour of digging caps and pull tabs since finding the wheatie under one- a dark crusty green cent emerged! Always a good sign and here is the second Indian of the day cleaned up:
I couldn't really stay much longer, but plan to go back soon while I can still work the area. I did find a couple of dimes that at first thought were silver- they must have been fresh drops last fall or over the winter and a genuine Genesse bottle opener- must have had something to do with all the pop-tops bottle caps I found. Here's a group shot of everything before cleanup:
And the two indians as they came from ground:
Edited to ad: The 1903 continues my run of not having found two Indians of the same date yet, so far in the later date set I have found 1900, 1902, 1904, 1905 and today the 1903.
A 1913 T1 ! Yet a little dissapointment- so close to a Liberty V nickel - I've yet to find one of them. This is just my third buffalo, and all so far have had dates, this one has spent along time in the ground, and the 1913 is just barely visible, but its clearly a type 1 mound buffalo anyways. So I'm thinking it might not be a bad day after all and continue down towards the water digging a couple more targets (this means alot of old bottle caps an pull tabs) I did hit another wheatie and a couple of memorials as well- the wheatie was a 1956, no mintmark this time. When I got to the shoreline the water was nearly cresting the top of the river bank and had the sandy area competely covered- I like to hit this area when the water first recedes every year because of the shoreline erosion- the ice chunks and water take out huge parts of the bank- last year I found a 40's Mercury laying just submerged after the water receded- must have come out of the bank. Will have to wait a couple of weeks or more this year for the water to go down. I worked the bank area some more- its littered with lots of old bottle caps and pull tabs, but its also were I dug the large cent last year. I dug one iffy signal - signal kept going from pull tab to just over a penny. Sure enough a Schafer bottle cap- I've probably dug hundreds of them here, I passed the detector over the hole again and there was still a strong signal there, dug a little more and found a 1945 wheatie. This got me thinking that as trashy as this area was, but as small and loaded with coins that it has been, that there just might be more hidden targets like this in some of those iffy signals. I continued on the waters edge, sometimes I also think ( I know this could be dangerous- too much thinking) the water pressure from the bank might be pushing some objects up in soil as well this time of year, and judging by the number of pull tabs I dug today, they would be the easiest to move. Working along I got one really solid signal- and well you could say I got some silver today- a WMRogers silver plated spoon, I think it was always such a strong signal I passed over it before believing it was probably a whole can- have dug a few of them here as well. The pull tab/bottle cap theory was the plan, but the results were so-so, I dug in one hole and got three items after three sweeps - all bottle caps, and in another the same - but three pull tabs. But finally after nearly a half an hour of digging caps and pull tabs since finding the wheatie under one- a dark crusty green cent emerged! Always a good sign and here is the second Indian of the day cleaned up:
I couldn't really stay much longer, but plan to go back soon while I can still work the area. I did find a couple of dimes that at first thought were silver- they must have been fresh drops last fall or over the winter and a genuine Genesse bottle opener- must have had something to do with all the pop-tops bottle caps I found. Here's a group shot of everything before cleanup:
And the two indians as they came from ground:
Edited to ad: The 1903 continues my run of not having found two Indians of the same date yet, so far in the later date set I have found 1900, 1902, 1904, 1905 and today the 1903.
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