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Forum member MTJosh (of Deer Lodge Montana) happened to be traveling thru Missoula this afternoon, we had never met before, so we arranged to get together for a short detecting adventure!
Josh turned out to be a great guy, pleasant, smart, easy going, and a capable and conscientious detectorist. We had our water bottles ready for watering the plugs, towels for the dirt, pinpointers, and we both use the AT Pro.
I chose a parking strip off the 1921 Missoula maps that had a fair amount of homes shown, hoping for plenty of good targets. It turned out to be a poor choice on my part, as after hunting we realized that it had been really hammered by others before us, as there were not many coins or relics of any type. I did find the cool "RIVERSIDE / H S T NYLON" Tire Advertising item, research shows those tires was sold by Montgomery Ward in the 1960's. We both got a few wheaties, and Josh scored the only silver coin of the day, a nice War Nickel. He was checking the curb strip in front of a remodel home, and got a nickel signal. He looked down and the Silver Nickel was laying right on top of the ground! This was in an area where some machinery might have moved the soil around a bit. The pic of his nickel and a couple of wheat pennies is below. Before Josh arrived, I sampled a few other areas of Missoula for future trips, while I did not find much, I did get a Sterling Ring and a nice 10K Gold Filled and Sterling Silver ring, along with some of the usual clad.
I've also included a few pics of my latest solo hunt earlier this week, again, finds were sparse but I did recover a nice 1931-S Mercury Dime (fairly scarce one) and a very cool ANACONDA MONTANA for the state capital promotional pin. In 1891, Anaconda, with the backing of "Copper King" Marcus Daly, challenged Helena (and "Copper King" W. A. Clark) for the location of the state capital. In that year's election, Helena won and retained the capital, making this an early 1890's artifact. Pictures follow of the overall finds, and a few close up pics, thank you for your interest!
Josh turned out to be a great guy, pleasant, smart, easy going, and a capable and conscientious detectorist. We had our water bottles ready for watering the plugs, towels for the dirt, pinpointers, and we both use the AT Pro.
I chose a parking strip off the 1921 Missoula maps that had a fair amount of homes shown, hoping for plenty of good targets. It turned out to be a poor choice on my part, as after hunting we realized that it had been really hammered by others before us, as there were not many coins or relics of any type. I did find the cool "RIVERSIDE / H S T NYLON" Tire Advertising item, research shows those tires was sold by Montgomery Ward in the 1960's. We both got a few wheaties, and Josh scored the only silver coin of the day, a nice War Nickel. He was checking the curb strip in front of a remodel home, and got a nickel signal. He looked down and the Silver Nickel was laying right on top of the ground! This was in an area where some machinery might have moved the soil around a bit. The pic of his nickel and a couple of wheat pennies is below. Before Josh arrived, I sampled a few other areas of Missoula for future trips, while I did not find much, I did get a Sterling Ring and a nice 10K Gold Filled and Sterling Silver ring, along with some of the usual clad.
I've also included a few pics of my latest solo hunt earlier this week, again, finds were sparse but I did recover a nice 1931-S Mercury Dime (fairly scarce one) and a very cool ANACONDA MONTANA for the state capital promotional pin. In 1891, Anaconda, with the backing of "Copper King" Marcus Daly, challenged Helena (and "Copper King" W. A. Clark) for the location of the state capital. In that year's election, Helena won and retained the capital, making this an early 1890's artifact. Pictures follow of the overall finds, and a few close up pics, thank you for your interest!
