Another old spill gives up my oldest Ihp

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View attachment 486105Early in Jan. I had an old ten coin spill with 4 silver a Buff, 3 wheats and 2 Ihps. Well this spill although not as great still gave up silver, a Buff, two wheats and my new oldest Ihp. Thinking about it the Ihp must have been dropped long before the other 17 cents was deposited. Getting out here has been hit & miss due to heat and dry weather. A week or so back I met up with Ryan aka Diabolik for a hunt in one of the city parks. We put alot of miles on that day and had little to show for it. A little bit of clad, Ryan had a couple wheaties and late in the day he hit shiny, I went over to see him with a large grin holding a nice Merc in his hand. This kinda rekindled the fire a little as all I had to show was a Pgh. Railways Token so I pressed on. About 15 minutes later I get a nice melodious 34-36 and not too far down I see a silver quarter, a 43 GW. # 30 fty . We both got shiny and called it a good day. Yard work and domestic chores have been keeping me busy but by last Sat. I thought I would hit a neighbors yard again for at least the tenth time. He had his sidewalk replaced and told me he was having it re-landscaped. A small postage stamp front yard. maybe 20 x 22. I hit it first back in 2016 with the ATPro, stock and again with the 5x8. It gave up 3 Rosies and some 40s & 50s wheats. The Rosie's had all came from just behind the hedges that separated his yard from the street. I went back went I got the Etrac and again with the Equinox with the stock coil. I hit a couple deeper wheaties. This time I decided to use the 6in coil. First coin was a memorial, dug a few rusty nails that sounded pretty good. Then right in the path behind the hedges I get a loud 26-27 and from no more than 3in, down out comes a 60 Rosie. How did I miss that one ? A little later, although the six inch seemed to struggle a little it locked on to what I thought was a deep silver signal turned out to be a 7in 40s something Wheat. Started about 830 and by 10 the heat was enough for me to call it and the fact that I had silver and a wheat from a yard I had pounded in the past I was quite happy with the outcome of a short but productive hunt.
We had rain Thursday and with the itch getting worse by the day I decided to hit an old park Friday morning. I had the coil on the ground before 10am and didn't get back to the truck till almost 6. For me thats a long one. First coin of the day I got a scratchy long high tone I thought for sure was junk and as I finished drawing back I get a nice coin tone, 26-27. I think I gotta dig this, glad I did, a 37 Merc. # 31 fty and a great way to start the day. I think to that point I had only dug 1 or 2 junk targets. I rescan and get the long scratchy high tone, so I dig it and it turned out to be a long curved piece of iron (see junk pic) and it turned out the Merc was lying just off the end of it by a few inches. By the way this was with the Nox 10x5 coil which I have been using exclusively except for the aforementioned yard hunt. Next I pick up a memorial then a wheatie. I had dug a few clad nickels and a few nickel sounding beavertails when a 12-13 but drop to 11 gets my attention. Its been a while since I have dug a Buff. Turns out it was a Buff and in a short span I had 2 more in my pouch. All 12-13 with a drop to 11. A lot of the time that is the telltale of a beavertail. Not this day. Most of my solid 12s &13s were junk. I get a jumpy crazy 26-27 then jumps to a 34 then a 39-40 but it still seemed to have a coin tone in it. I cut a 3-4in. plug and flip the hole a couple times to see a coin pop up, I see silver, wait its a war nickel with a little shiny and a lot of black crustiness. I think no way I got those tones and #s from a war nickel. I rescan and get a 15-16 a couple inches from the edge of the hole. A large piece of foil. Rescan, nothing. I widen the hole to about 12 in. and dig to about 12 in. Nothing. OK a head scratcher but I still happy with the war nickel. The coinspill was a big jumpy bunch of #s that I was thinking probably junk but as I was drawing back off the signal at the end I got a solid 12-13 drop to 11 signal I thought could this be Buff # 4 for the day. Yes indeed, Tatonka reared its head and allthough not sure but thats the most Buffs I've dug in a single hunt. Pinpointer says there more. a 44 wheatie. I say c'mon theres got to be silver in here. Next out I see a small silver reeded edge. I sayin Merc for sure but its a first year Rosie. Pinpointer saying more, out comes another crusty wheatie. Still more in there, I have to pop the sidewall and out comes a nice green one, Whaat ? A 1864 I hp. My oldest Ihp so far and when I looked at it I thought 1864s were fatties and this was definitely not a fattie. After a little research I found both were minted that year. And although all were at around the same depth 5-6 in. its seems the Ihp was an earlier drop. Still an old coin spill, 18 cents with silver, wheats a Buff and my oldest I hp made for a heck of a day. Oh yeah, a little later I get a 26-27 clad dime type of signal and out came a very sweet Star of David pendant. My first sterling of the year. Dug 14 nickels and a little over a buck in clad and have not been able to pound the ground as much as I would like but still happy with the success I have had. Thanks for looking in. Mark

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