oldest coin yet with F2, but alas no silver yet

[caheaton]

Over in the coinshooters forum, I mentioned an old school that keeps teasing me. It continued to do so today. It was built in 1914 and I had been thinking it's been hunted out, but low and behold I have managed to pick up a couple of Wheats there. Today it netted yet another wheat and my oldest coin yet found with the F2...a 1920. That makes 3 Wheats that old school has yielded up...(along with a few dollars worth of clad) but yet no silver....(or even a buffalo nickel). I'm convinced that there must be at least one buffalo and a silver lurking in the ground there somewhere!

Today's outing was an interesting one...the area of the school grounds I was hunting yielded very little trash (that was a pleasant change ), but like many areas I've hunted, it was loaded with iron (seemed like an iron hit for every couple square feet almost). The Wheat penny was deep, 6" to 7" and registered as zinc, but on about half of my sweeps it wasn't beeping at all. I almost was going to pass it by, but decided that it's either trash or deep and decided to dig anyway...thinking that if its deep its probably going to be an Indian Head or Wheat (the F2 seems to ring up deep wheats as zinc). Turned out to be my oldest one yet...1920 (not a whole lot of wear either, so it was likely lost in the 20's or 30's).

Another deep target was the button...its of modern manufacture (I assume), but was about 5 or 6 inches down. Interesting pattern...does anyone know of any sites where one can look up button patterns or is the cause hopless (except for historical buttons naturally)?

Also found were a Chuck E Cheese token, a few copper and zinc cents and a few nickels. Overall, not too bad an outing (about typical in quantity of finds over a 4 hour hunt).
Craig