Last Thursday I noticed that the city had torn out some curbstrips along a main drag as I was leaving town. Yesterday evening I went over to look at it, and hunt it. some parts they didnt dig out as much as the rest, but they did scrape out the sidewalk base so I knew there would be some potential.
I only hunted the first homes yard length, and the first target I dug was coated in patina. I toothbrushed it enough to see that it was an IHP. I have it soaking in olive oil to see if I can get a date off of it. I next found a modern penny, a 1953 wheat, and a zincoln, then I dug the 1946 rosie.
I went back this afternoon to hunt the rest of it, and got better results. I ended up digging 6 wheats, 3 of which I cant see the dates, a 1900 IHP, then a high tone that I though at first was a Barber quarter, but ended up being a silver 1900 Canadian 25 cent piece. Then I found the marble, the weird looking Egyptian badge (My historian daughter said that Egyptian looking pieces were popular in the 1920s), and my last two finds were the zip tab and the toy car piece. All of the patina coins, and the Canadian quarter are from underneath where the sidewalk was.
The road noise here is terrible, along with the EMI, but I dont think I missed any solid tones. I recently found that if the EMI is bad and hard to cancel, I could get rid of a lot of it by dropping down to the next lower recovery rate. I normally run it at a 6, but dropping it to a 5 helped immensely.
The city did the same to the block east of here, but they havent scraped out the sidewalk base yet......hopefully it will happen this week! Thanks for looking, and HH!
I only hunted the first homes yard length, and the first target I dug was coated in patina. I toothbrushed it enough to see that it was an IHP. I have it soaking in olive oil to see if I can get a date off of it. I next found a modern penny, a 1953 wheat, and a zincoln, then I dug the 1946 rosie.
I went back this afternoon to hunt the rest of it, and got better results. I ended up digging 6 wheats, 3 of which I cant see the dates, a 1900 IHP, then a high tone that I though at first was a Barber quarter, but ended up being a silver 1900 Canadian 25 cent piece. Then I found the marble, the weird looking Egyptian badge (My historian daughter said that Egyptian looking pieces were popular in the 1920s), and my last two finds were the zip tab and the toy car piece. All of the patina coins, and the Canadian quarter are from underneath where the sidewalk was.
The road noise here is terrible, along with the EMI, but I dont think I missed any solid tones. I recently found that if the EMI is bad and hard to cancel, I could get rid of a lot of it by dropping down to the next lower recovery rate. I normally run it at a 6, but dropping it to a 5 helped immensely.
The city did the same to the block east of here, but they havent scraped out the sidewalk base yet......hopefully it will happen this week! Thanks for looking, and HH!