One Afternoon, Two Hunts

Today I took a nice ride to an old historic park with Jim and Mary.

After hunting for about 35 minutes, the signals were few and far between.  Besides the usual trash, I only dug a clad quarter and a memorial penny.

Finally, I managed a decent deep signal and turned up a 1906 Indian head penny about 6 inches deep.

Jim scored a store token from the civil war period. A Robinson Ballou Grocers token, dated 1863.

There weren't too many signals at the park, just those two keepers; so we reluctantly called it a day.

On my way home, I stopped at another site that I recently got permission to detect. I immediately started turning up wheat pennies.  And you know what I say about finding wheats...

Well, after being questioned by a "concerned" neighbor:  Who are you? What are you doing? Do you have permission to be here?  (Of course I had permission. He found that out when he called 'to verify that I wasn't lying'.)  I finally got started.

A few signals later, I got a 1940 silver Washington quarter.  I also found a 1968 coin  (Un Centesimo) from Panama, which I mistook for a wheatie at first; an old costume ring missing the stone; and a Chucky Cheese token.

It felt great to get out digging today - I hadn't been out in a few days and I needed it for my soul.  

But the best part of the day was when I got home and cleaned up my finds.  I realized that one of the wheats I dug was a key date - a 1909 VDB! Unfortunately it's not an 'S', but I was still pretty thrilled.