Land Fisher
Junior Member
I've been working an old (century) Midwestern city park for a few weeks now, an hour here and there. The place is polluted with clad coins. Within 20 mins. or so I must have pulled two dozen modern pennies at the surface, when I realized that they were roughly all trending in a line -- and there were still more. But at that point I was getting bored and gave up the chase.
The park joins up to a schoolgrounds, so I wonder if someone did a penny toss or some other game.
What's especially frustrating is that I found my oldest coin (an 1886 Indianhead Penny) in the same general area at only 2 inches underneath very large cottonwood trees, so I don't want to skip searching. My detector isn't quite sensitive enough to always distinguish between bronze/copper/clad pennies. Depending on soil conditions and depth, they can overlap a bit on the readout.
I suppose I should eventually collect all the modern pennies, just to get them out of there...
The park joins up to a schoolgrounds, so I wonder if someone did a penny toss or some other game.
What's especially frustrating is that I found my oldest coin (an 1886 Indianhead Penny) in the same general area at only 2 inches underneath very large cottonwood trees, so I don't want to skip searching. My detector isn't quite sensitive enough to always distinguish between bronze/copper/clad pennies. Depending on soil conditions and depth, they can overlap a bit on the readout.
I suppose I should eventually collect all the modern pennies, just to get them out of there...