Sidewalk search produces a Mercury

[OZ_IL]

Driving to work yesterday - see more sections of sidewalks being removed. A few weeks back I found a silver quarter, Rosie and a 1910 wheatie by a corner house that was getting a new sidewalk. This time a 1940 Mercury and a 1941-D wheatie. 3 silvers coins in under a month. That beat my entire 2007 totals to date. Been one poor year on silver finds, glad to have found three relatively quickly.

[afpilot64]

I love it when they rip out streets or sidewalks .. I'm always there to get the goodies!

[Tigger]

Nice.....I'd love to find a Merc. I've found a bunch of silver Rosies, but no dimes older than that.

[steve in so az]

Nice find - good awareness of your surroundings. Those Mercs sure look neat coming out of the ground, steve i nso az

[billiard rich]

Nice work Oz! Did you find them with the 250 or the M6?

[OZ_IL]

Originally Posted by billiard rich

Nice work Oz! Did you find them with the 250 or the M6?

The M6 is still waiting to be taken apart and sent back to White's for them to look over. I do want to do one more test with it before sending it back. Long story short, the M6 is a piece of garbage. Hopefully they'll find something wrong and fix it, otherwise I'll feel guilty trying to re-sell it to someone. By the by, saw more sidewalk areas ripped up on the way in to work today :0)

[twistidd]

OZ,

hit me up if you need a sidewalk hunting partner!

BTW, I'm going to the old tuberculosis sanitarium grounds tomorrow to hunt the wooded areas, hopefully I can pull at least one oldie out of there (they use the grounds as a park and old people homes, but it was set up in 1905 as a sanitarium). I'll let you know about anything found.

Joe

[OZ_IL]

Originally Posted by twistidd

OZ,

hit me up if you need a sidewalk hunting partner!

BTW, I'm going to the old tuberculosis sanitarium grounds tomorrow to hunt the wooded areas, hopefully I can pull at least one oldie out of there (they use the grounds as a park and old people homes, but it was set up in 1905 as a sanitarium). I'll let you know about anything found.

Joe

Wish I could join yah! MI next week for me - fishing and MD'ing. Ahhhhhhh.
Sounds like you have a good place to hunt - watch out for poison ivy.

BTW - did the last of the torn up sidewalks and no silver, but a bling-bling.

[SteveMN]

Nice job on the merc! I hit a couple tear-ups this summer but did not have any luck with the silver. I can see how they would be very productive given the right location.

[FXDiz]

Shades of ZZ Top! Wonder if Rusty will want it!