Hendrick84
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Greetings, my name is Jeff -
I am from Northern Colorado and have been detecting for about 3 months. I love all aspects of the hobby: researching, detecting, and digging. History has always been fascinating to me! I have a detecting buddy but always looking for more folks who enjoy the hobby.
I have detected in Fort Collins, Windsor, Greeley, and Longmont thus far. Primarily at older parks. While I have found what I consider to be some neat stuff (old spoons, wheat pennies, pendants) Its confusing to me why I haven't found any of the previous generation coins. (Buffalo/Liberty Nickels) (Indian Head Pennies) (Barber dimes) etc. I should mention that I live in a new neighborhood, and pulled a mercury dime out of my very trashy greenway. This has added confusion and frustration as I this is my only older gen coin that wasn't a wheat penny. - And I am defaulting to thinking it was fill dirt that was brought in and not originally on the property. (all farmland in the 50s)
Realizing that my state is on the younger side within the US I can understand pre 1900 finds are rare. Just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on why I am coming up short? Location? User error?
My research method consists of using Historic Aerials, as well as old topo maps available online. I have a couple of private permissions, but haven't yielded much. Probably dug around 250 coins, 500 targets so far in 3 months.
Looking for some wisdom from the veterans on this forum! Thank you very much in advance!
I am from Northern Colorado and have been detecting for about 3 months. I love all aspects of the hobby: researching, detecting, and digging. History has always been fascinating to me! I have a detecting buddy but always looking for more folks who enjoy the hobby.
I have detected in Fort Collins, Windsor, Greeley, and Longmont thus far. Primarily at older parks. While I have found what I consider to be some neat stuff (old spoons, wheat pennies, pendants) Its confusing to me why I haven't found any of the previous generation coins. (Buffalo/Liberty Nickels) (Indian Head Pennies) (Barber dimes) etc. I should mention that I live in a new neighborhood, and pulled a mercury dime out of my very trashy greenway. This has added confusion and frustration as I this is my only older gen coin that wasn't a wheat penny. - And I am defaulting to thinking it was fill dirt that was brought in and not originally on the property. (all farmland in the 50s)
Realizing that my state is on the younger side within the US I can understand pre 1900 finds are rare. Just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on why I am coming up short? Location? User error?
My research method consists of using Historic Aerials, as well as old topo maps available online. I have a couple of private permissions, but haven't yielded much. Probably dug around 250 coins, 500 targets so far in 3 months.
Looking for some wisdom from the veterans on this forum! Thank you very much in advance!
... from the Land of 10,000 Lakes - Minnesota! 
Happy hunting! 
