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June 20, 2012: RECORD WHEAT CENT DAY - 55! Plus 1893-O Barber dime
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It was so hot today, but plans to go swimming this afternoon fell through. That freed up the evening for some detecting! Went to a place I've been wanting to try but just haven't made it over. After 5 minutes a barber dime pops out! Turns out to be a scarcer 1893-O, but the reverse has something on it - maybe rust? Would acetone have any impact?
10 minutes later I get my first wheat cent, swipe the coil and notice several other signals within a couple feet. Could they be wheats too? Yes, yes they were, then all of a sudden more signals, and more wheats... and it just turned into an all-out wheat cent bonanza. Since most were in a 15x15 area, someone must have put them there. Only a few were found in other areas. My goodness, that blows away my previous one-day wheat record - which looks to have been 19.
Here's the breakout... notice the abundance of D mint coins... hardly ever find D or S coins here in New England
1941, 1950, 1950, 1950, 1950-S, 1951, 1951, 1951-D, 1951-D, 1951-D, 1952, 1952, 1952, 1952-D, 1952-D, 1953-D, 1953-D, 1953-D, 1953-D, 1953-D, 1953-D, 1953-D, 1953-D, 1953-D, 1954-D, 1954-D, 1954-D, 1955-D, 1955-D, 1955-D, 1956-D, 1956-D, 1956-D, 1956-D, 1956-D, 1956-D, 1956-D, 1956-D, 1956-D, 1956-D, 1956-D, 1956-D, 1956-D, 1956-D, 1957, 1957-D, 1957-D, 1957-D, 1957-D, 1957-D, 1957-D, 1957-D, 1957-D, 1958, 1958-D
10 minutes later I get my first wheat cent, swipe the coil and notice several other signals within a couple feet. Could they be wheats too? Yes, yes they were, then all of a sudden more signals, and more wheats... and it just turned into an all-out wheat cent bonanza. Since most were in a 15x15 area, someone must have put them there. Only a few were found in other areas. My goodness, that blows away my previous one-day wheat record - which looks to have been 19.
Here's the breakout... notice the abundance of D mint coins... hardly ever find D or S coins here in New England
1941, 1950, 1950, 1950, 1950-S, 1951, 1951, 1951-D, 1951-D, 1951-D, 1952, 1952, 1952, 1952-D, 1952-D, 1953-D, 1953-D, 1953-D, 1953-D, 1953-D, 1953-D, 1953-D, 1953-D, 1953-D, 1954-D, 1954-D, 1954-D, 1955-D, 1955-D, 1955-D, 1956-D, 1956-D, 1956-D, 1956-D, 1956-D, 1956-D, 1956-D, 1956-D, 1956-D, 1956-D, 1956-D, 1956-D, 1956-D, 1956-D, 1957, 1957-D, 1957-D, 1957-D, 1957-D, 1957-D, 1957-D, 1957-D, 1957-D, 1958, 1958-D
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Lafayette Grading Set
Wow! That's a lot of Wheaties!. My record for a single site is something like 7, I've never found any Barber's of any type.
That Barber dime is great! Congrats!
Clad
Awesome.
It doesn't seem like these wheats were buried that long - maybe no more than 25-30 years... none of these were all that deep, and new clad was deeper in other areas.
PPC, wish they were throwing rolls of silver dimes!
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This is a serious set of questions.
Your answers will help begginers like me and even more , the answers would help my Son understand where we should be spending our detecting time.
What are we doing wrong?
What kind of place would have yield this wonderful pile in such a short time period??
Could you please help my son with a list of characteristics of s treasure site like this?
1. Open Field or Old Building
2. Flat, rough, rocks?
3.
4.
<< <i>Fantastic finds!
This is a serious set of questions.
Your answers will help begginers like me and even more , the answers would help my Son understand where we should be spending our detecting time.
What are we doing wrong?
What kind of place would have yield this wonderful pile in such a short time period??
Could you please help my son with a list of characteristics of s treasure site like this?
1. Open Field or Old Building
2. Flat, rough, rocks?
3.
4. >>
The real key is just going to places people have been meeting at for years - parks, recreation areas, old home sites (with permission of course), and really just being persisent and patient. These wheat cents were really a fluke as they were found at a school. I'm 99.9% certainly a kid must have swiped his dad's wheat cents and brought them to school and put them there for some reason.
Some people like to look at old maps, and there's usually some history books about your local area that are worth a read. Doesn't hurt talking to friends and family to ask about older places and see if anyone has an older house you can check out.
Another thing is to make sure the settings on your detector are right... that you have the right discrimination, right sensitivity, etc. Usually people take various coins, quarters, silver, gold, etc and throw them in the yard, and even bury them to see how the detector signals. If you throw a gold ring down and get no signal, time to change some settings, haha.
A pinpointer might not be a bad investment either. Hopefully this helps...HH!