Some silver and an old Canadian coin

With Nate off of school and me off work for the holidays we both were itching to get out detecting. However we have been at the mercy of the weather and fortunately the weather warmed up just enough to get out detecting for a few days.

Saturday, Dec 27th
Nate and I were planning on going detecting today. There was no set schedule/plan and I knew he had been up late the night before. So not wanting to wait until his anticipated waking time (noonish) I set off to the local park where I had found the SLQ about a month ago.

I began by worked an area between the pavilion and the first line of trees. Not a lot of targets but I get one of those deep broken up signals that I suspected would be a coin. I dig down only to find the first 3 inches of soil were soft and then the ground was semi-frozen. Fortunately I could break through the frozen dirt below and obtain the target – a 1920 Wheat penny. I continue to search the area and found one more 1924 Wheat penny. About 10 minutes later I get another really deep coin that turns out to be a 1934 Canadian penny. “Cool,” I am thinking. That's only the second “King George” Canadian penny I have found.

Well while I still have the Canadian Penny in my hands Nate calls me on my cell phone: “Yo, what's up”, he asks. “I just got a 1934 Canadian Penny up here at the Park. You want to meet me up here?” I replied. He declines and informs me that he will be ready to go to the elementary school on the east side in about 15 minutes. So I detect for another 10 minutes, pick up another 1940 Wheat penny and head home to pick up Nate.

On the way to the school we get a call from Dan. Another “Hey, what's up?” type conversation ensued and he told us he was within minutes of the site and he would meet us there. The temperature had warmed up nicely by the time we get to the school – it was around 60 and sunny. Too bad the ground conditions were so sloppy. Mucky on top and frozen below 3 inches. Dan isn't prepared for the hunt (tennis shoes) and after about 25 minutes of hunting he comes over and informs me that it's so unpleasant for him that even if he found a silver half it wouldn't be worth it.

So Nate and I hunt about an hour and a half. Nate finds about 7 wheat pennies and the usual clad. I was able to muster up a silver rosie and some “bling” (jeweled heart necklace). We drove to another site that I had been meaning to check out. It was another school in the area. It looked promising but it didn't yeild much – one wheat penny and a little clad. So after hunting half an hour we packed it up and called it a day.

Saturday.

On my way home from another site I drove right by an old Quarry/Swimming hole that for others has produced many awesome finds (silver dollars, gold, etc). I saw someone detecting with a cheap bounty hunter on the beach. I went over, introduced myself and we chatted for a while. Nice guy who just wanted to be out in the nice weather. Now this site has been hunted so much that to make any good finds you have to go where there are lot's of pull tabs or in the obscure places. I found a thicket and got my coil in the brush. I hear the usual pull tab sounds but then I get the sweet silver tone. Sure enough out pops a small sterling silver ring. Didn't find much else for the 35 minutes I was at this site but was satisfied with silver.