sandgroper
Elite Member
The other day I went out for a couple of hours. I had found a few old homesites on google maps, and two parks nearby, so I decided to head there, starting off with the house sites. Got a lot of good signals on the first site, but most turned out to be molten aluminium pieces. Got a few modern coins and also a US quarter (1987 I believe). So I moved onto the house site next door (fence wasn’t there anymore), and right in the middle of the site (where the house must’ve stood), I got this massive 1972 $1 coin. These things are huge! Couldn’t imagine carrying one with me if they were used here. Are these common finds over in the US? It’s my first so I was quite happy about finding something interesting.
Anyway, there were another two house sites on the way to the park, so I hunted a good proportion of both with nothing much to show apart from a bag full of trash (at least copper is $6 per kilo now ). There was a lemon tree at the last house site so I took one lemon (might as well, it’d probably get removed once the site gets built on again). By now two hours had past and all I had was the US $1 coin, a few modern coins, a bag of junk and a lemon. Decided to hunt a few verges whilst walking to the park. Second verge yielded my first old coin (1955 penny), and also a cool Hollywood lipstick tube from the mid 1940’s. Sometime later I arrived at that park. There were lots of people playing cricket, so I headed to another nearby park which was just as full, only with parents and little children. So I was back to hunting verges, which wasn’t that bad because I found another penny (1948) and a 1951 silver sixpence.
I then returned to the first park and had lunch whilst the cricketers packed up their things. Once most had gone, I was up and swinging again. Got a 1952 penny and about $20 in loose change. Also tried a few verges across the park, and found a coin spill of two silver sixpence (1942 and another 1951). On the verge opposite this one I got heaps of great signals (12:40’s on the CTX). But most turned out to be old brass fittings. In amongst all these bits and pieces I did manage to find one silver; a 1947 florin! Haven’t found a big silver in a while, so even though this one is crusty (50% silver so relatively high copper content), I’m glad I finally got another one.
Thanks for looking, and as always, good luck out there!
Anyway, there were another two house sites on the way to the park, so I hunted a good proportion of both with nothing much to show apart from a bag full of trash (at least copper is $6 per kilo now ). There was a lemon tree at the last house site so I took one lemon (might as well, it’d probably get removed once the site gets built on again). By now two hours had past and all I had was the US $1 coin, a few modern coins, a bag of junk and a lemon. Decided to hunt a few verges whilst walking to the park. Second verge yielded my first old coin (1955 penny), and also a cool Hollywood lipstick tube from the mid 1940’s. Sometime later I arrived at that park. There were lots of people playing cricket, so I headed to another nearby park which was just as full, only with parents and little children. So I was back to hunting verges, which wasn’t that bad because I found another penny (1948) and a 1951 silver sixpence.
I then returned to the first park and had lunch whilst the cricketers packed up their things. Once most had gone, I was up and swinging again. Got a 1952 penny and about $20 in loose change. Also tried a few verges across the park, and found a coin spill of two silver sixpence (1942 and another 1951). On the verge opposite this one I got heaps of great signals (12:40’s on the CTX). But most turned out to be old brass fittings. In amongst all these bits and pieces I did manage to find one silver; a 1947 florin! Haven’t found a big silver in a while, so even though this one is crusty (50% silver so relatively high copper content), I’m glad I finally got another one.
Thanks for looking, and as always, good luck out there!