Local park still holds stuff

Foragist · Sep 13, 2018

Been working a few places here and there, but not as much as I'd like. Busy with too many other things lately. I managed a War nickel the other day. A couple Rosies a few days before that. Today, I spent a couple hours in my local park. Besides the bit of clad and several pennies, I got a 1928 Buffalo nickel, a '36 Merc, and a cruddy copper ring with a major blingstone! When I pulled it out of the hole, the ring was inside a clump of dirt in my fingers, with the stone showing brilliantly on top. I only missed one heartbeat before I could tell the ring was not silver, gold, or platinum. It was painted black. Oh well...happy to find another ring, and a fourth silver dime from this park,(silver #39 FTY) and a first Buffalo nickel from this park.

twizzlerlord · Sep 13, 2018

Congrats on the neat finds!

Princess · Sep 13, 2018

Congrats on a great hunt! :clapping:

It's nice that the date on the Buff is partially visible - 1925 or '28, perhaps?

Ron 71 · Sep 14, 2018

Nice to see a public park still producing, Congrats on some nice oldies!

Mud-puppy · Sep 14, 2018

Thats a pretty nice crisp dirt Merc there Foragist! It didnt see a lot of pocket time!

Silver_Seeker · Sep 14, 2018

It's still fun to have that heart skip a beat when you see that stone in the dirt.

Congrats on the finds.

cellrdwellr · Sep 14, 2018

Great hunting, congrats!

3.14R8 · Sep 14, 2018

Looks like a very fun hunt, congrats on the nice finds.

Foragist · Sep 14, 2018

twizzlerlord said:
Congrats on the neat finds!

Thanks Twiz!

Princess said:
Congrats on a great hunt! It's nice that the date on the Buff is partially visible - 1925 or '28, perhaps?

Yep. It has a date from '28. It's nice to see that on these old nickels. Thanks.

Ron 71 said:
Nice to see a public park still producing, Congrats on some nice oldies!

This park never produces a lot, but it throws me a good one every so often. Thanks.

Mud-puppy said:
Thats a pretty nice crisp dirt Merc there Foragist! It didnt see a lot of pocket time!

It is kind of a good one. The crisper, the better, but I still like the old smoothies too. Thanks Mud

Silver_Seeker said:
It's still fun to have that heart skip a beat when you see that stone in the dirt.
Congrats on the finds.

Kind of glad I'm pessimistic about my finds, or it would have been a big let-down. When I saw the stone, I wasn't thinking OMG! I was thinking more like "Gee, wouldn't that be nice"

cellrdwellr said:
Great hunting, congrats!

Thanks cellr-d.

3.14R8 said:
Looks like a very fun hunt, congrats on the nice finds.

Popping these kinds of things out of the dirt certainly makes it more fun!

jack&jill · Sep 15, 2018

Some very nice digging Blaise. With that many targets I think you still have some more digging left at that site. Congrats! Trapper

AirmetTango · Sep 15, 2018

Nice job wringing a few more finds out of the local park! I like finding rings regardless of whether they're just bling rings or not, too - especially if they have some age to them, and your find definitely looks older.

I've had some pretty good luck with parks this year, considering how pounded they've been for the last half century or so. It takes quite a bit of patience and perseverance, but there's definitely still some good stuff out there! I like going to parks when my time is too limited to mess around knocking on doors, or sometimes just for a little change in pace. Frankly, I often think of park hunting as advertising also - I'm more likely to get approached by people curious about detecting while I'm in a park. I know some detectorists considering that annoying, but I look at it as a chance to score a new private property permission :yes:

Foragist · Sep 15, 2018

jack&jill said:
Some very nice digging Blaise. With that many targets I think you still have some more digging left at that site. Congrats! Trapper

Thanks Trapper. I think you're right. Now that most of the easy pickin's are gone, I'll be digging more of the "trash" signals, and see what turns up.

AirmetTango said:
Nice job wringing a few more finds out of the local park! I like finding rings regardless of whether they're just bling rings or not, too - especially if they have some age to them, and your find definitely looks older.

I've had some pretty good luck with parks this year, considering how pounded they've been for the last half century or so. It takes quite a bit of patience and perseverance, but there's definitely still some good stuff out there! I like going to parks when my time is too limited to mess around knocking on doors, or sometimes just for a little change in pace. Frankly, I often think of park hunting as advertising also - I'm more likely to get approached by people curious about detecting while I'm in a park. I know some detectorists considering that annoying, but I look at it as a chance to score a new private property permission

It is like advertising. This small park on Main street is pretty open. I'm getting known as the guy with the detector, or the guy walking the cool little dog. Recently, a troop of maybe second graders and their teacher came to the park on their field trip walk. They saw me, and started asking the teacher questions. She gave them permission to ask me about it, and I ended up giving a short class on metal detecting. I especially liked the "Whoa!" reaction when I tapped the plug back into the ground with the side of my digger, and it blended in perfectly. I usually don't want to be bothered, but sometimes it's a joy.

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