markinswpa
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Who believes in karma ? I do or at the very least there is some strange stuff that goes on in this hobby. My last hunt to a city park where I dug silver, I dug 3 silver, three Ihps and 3 Wheats and a skeleton key. Let me back up a little, with that hunt I hit 26 silver fty and that put me where I was last year at lockdown and my fear was I may lanquish there like I did until Nov. My return to that park gave up little, a scout slide, a couple tags and a minimal amount of clad. I did find a 5 dollar bill in the parking lot headed back to the truck. Not a bad hunt but I have been spoiled lately. So a permission I had been hoping for that the guy told me he would have to think about and to stop back was a no and feeling a little dejected I stopped at the local market on the way home. The coinstar machine is watched over closely by one of the employees and I have never got one decent coin out of it but he lets me know all the silver and wheats he finds when I share pics of my shiny digs. So that day as I go by the coinstar I look in the reject tray, only one coin in there, damn looks like a silver dime. Ya buddy, a 64 Rosie, a little consolation prize for me. I'll be sure to rub it in a little next time I stop.
So back to thing in 3s, I have did most of the house's on my street but a small place a couple doors down there lived a cranky old guy who wouldn't talk to anyone. Well he passed a year or so ago and the neighbors told me to just go and do it but I just don't feel right if I haven't been granted permission. Yesterday I saw some people cleaning the place out, I stopped and the woman told me she the caretaker of the estate and I was welcome to go over the property. Very small front yard gave up a wheat and 2 memorials. A deeper 26-28 I thought was a clad dime felt more like a crusty rotting zincoln. More on that later. Down back most of the yard was so grown over with vines and weeds it was almost impossible to detect. And the grassy areas had low hanging trees over them. After a memorial or two a scratchy 26 gave up a worn Merc. Alright # 27 and I passed the stall and moving on. Now I'm down on my knees underneath the low hanging branches and I get a good 26-27 and see a 64 Rosie. Now I'm at #28 fty, my dismal silver take for all of 2020. If I dig one more I can put 2020 in the rearview. Under another tree a like signal gives up a 46 Rosie. Cool bookend Rosies, first and last year. Now going over the area again I get a shallow 19-20, my first thought a zincoln but as I rub the back and see one cent with a wreath I realize its an Ihp. Wow this house was built in 1941. I dug a few wheats and one deeper one turned out to be a 1919. Another 19-20 was an old skeleton key. And on the side of the house I get a decent 35-36, 90% sure a coin signal, 7 1/2 maybe 8 inches down I saw laying flat a copper, dang another Ihp, an 1893. It wasn't till I got home that I realize that crusty 26-28 in the front yard was another Ihp. So now this hunt as with my last hunt to give up silver I get three, also Ihps, I dig three, wheats, well I did dig four this time but don't forget the skeleton keys which I never hardly dig any. Ok maybe I'm weird but to me I see a lot of coincidences in this hobby. If you got this far thanks for looking in. Mark
So back to thing in 3s, I have did most of the house's on my street but a small place a couple doors down there lived a cranky old guy who wouldn't talk to anyone. Well he passed a year or so ago and the neighbors told me to just go and do it but I just don't feel right if I haven't been granted permission. Yesterday I saw some people cleaning the place out, I stopped and the woman told me she the caretaker of the estate and I was welcome to go over the property. Very small front yard gave up a wheat and 2 memorials. A deeper 26-28 I thought was a clad dime felt more like a crusty rotting zincoln. More on that later. Down back most of the yard was so grown over with vines and weeds it was almost impossible to detect. And the grassy areas had low hanging trees over them. After a memorial or two a scratchy 26 gave up a worn Merc. Alright # 27 and I passed the stall and moving on. Now I'm down on my knees underneath the low hanging branches and I get a good 26-27 and see a 64 Rosie. Now I'm at #28 fty, my dismal silver take for all of 2020. If I dig one more I can put 2020 in the rearview. Under another tree a like signal gives up a 46 Rosie. Cool bookend Rosies, first and last year. Now going over the area again I get a shallow 19-20, my first thought a zincoln but as I rub the back and see one cent with a wreath I realize its an Ihp. Wow this house was built in 1941. I dug a few wheats and one deeper one turned out to be a 1919. Another 19-20 was an old skeleton key. And on the side of the house I get a decent 35-36, 90% sure a coin signal, 7 1/2 maybe 8 inches down I saw laying flat a copper, dang another Ihp, an 1893. It wasn't till I got home that I realize that crusty 26-28 in the front yard was another Ihp. So now this hunt as with my last hunt to give up silver I get three, also Ihps, I dig three, wheats, well I did dig four this time but don't forget the skeleton keys which I never hardly dig any. Ok maybe I'm weird but to me I see a lot of coincidences in this hobby. If you got this far thanks for looking in. Mark