Been doing quite a bit of curb mining the past week or so. The street just a couple blocks over they are tearing up and completely replacing street, utilities, sidewalks, the whole bit. Its also one of the older sections of town (several houses date back to 1900-1910). So been hitting it pretty frequently to learn some of the finer points of my MXT. 
Was just about to pack it up this morning and got stopped by a guy in his yard that had some questions about my detector and metal detecting in general. Little bit of small talk later and got an invite to detect his yard. Found plenty of the standard fare, bottle caps, aluminum cans that have made a trip through the lawn mower, scrap pieces of tin/flashing, nails, a few zinc pennies, and a single dime.
After coming home and cleaning everything up turns out the dime is a 1960 D - first silver coin I've dug since really jumping back in the hobby only a couple weeks ago. I'd post a picture of it, but I'd be embarrassed since I did manage to scratch it getting out of the ground - oops.
I know there has to be some really old stuff there, I think the house was probably build sometime in the 1920's and more interestingly one of the major public schools sat right across the street until sometime in I believe the 60's when it was demolished. I just need to get better at being able to listen and find the deeper stuff between all the surface garbage.
Was just about to pack it up this morning and got stopped by a guy in his yard that had some questions about my detector and metal detecting in general. Little bit of small talk later and got an invite to detect his yard. Found plenty of the standard fare, bottle caps, aluminum cans that have made a trip through the lawn mower, scrap pieces of tin/flashing, nails, a few zinc pennies, and a single dime. After coming home and cleaning everything up turns out the dime is a 1960 D - first silver coin I've dug since really jumping back in the hobby only a couple weeks ago. I'd post a picture of it, but I'd be embarrassed since I did manage to scratch it getting out of the ground - oops.
I know there has to be some really old stuff there, I think the house was probably build sometime in the 1920's and more interestingly one of the major public schools sat right across the street until sometime in I believe the 60's when it was demolished. I just need to get better at being able to listen and find the deeper stuff between all the surface garbage.
. We pulled them out of the ground by the 5 gallon bucket full. Fortunately ground up aluminum cans were something more rare! 
J/K Dino, glad your getting out again. 
