So where are the detector reports??

[MIdigger]

Cool finds, I got out a bit but only came back with a meager 54 cents total. It was nice to be out. Looks like rain tomorrow but may get some digging and detecting in soon enough.

 

[Plumbata]

Those shoes for cloven-hoofed beasts of burden are awesome, great finds cthulhu!

I went out for about 2.5 hours today, just hunting curb/sidewalk medians in Columbus, Ohio, and had a personal best day in terms of finding silver!

11 clad quarters (including a bicentennial)
10 clad dimes
19 zincolns (most from one big pocket spill of pennies)
14 copper memorials
9 wheats (1919S to 1957D, no rarities)

2 silver Washingtons; a 1934 P and a 1956 D
1 silver Roosevelt; 1960 P
1 silver Mercury dime; 1944 P
and a modern 1.7 gram coin-sized sterling charm bracelet thing reading "Good health, good luck and happiness for today and everyday" circling a cut-out center depicting a 4-leaf clover.

Also got some nice copper scrap. 5 silver items is my personal best for a hunt, and the 4 coins came from an area a just 2 feet square, and at a similar depth. Must have been a pocket/lap spill. Found a 1959 and 1962 cent in the area at the same depth so I think all are related. The '34 quarter is quite circulated.

I love digging silver; those shiny coins pop-out at you like nothing else in the plugs or loose dirt. Awesome day for me, personally; Only managed 3 or 4 silver items in any of my previous best silver hunts.

Happy hunting people!

 

[Plumbata]

Forgot to include commentary on the hunt; the last good find, as I was walking back to the car and swinging over already-covered ground, was a signal I distinctly remember from the first pass. It was iffy the first go (struck me as likely a beer cap flattened by cars, which ring higher than unflattened caps) but decided to dig it.

The 4 silver coins was already my best haul for coinage, but what came out was the "Good health, good luck and happiness for today and everyday" 4-leaf clover charm. So my last silver was a sterling 4-leaf clover wishing me health, luck, and happiness. I ain't a superstitious person, but that was like a fortune-cookie on steroids, haha, as I was already feeling very lucky and happy. Pretty awesome.

 

[MIdigger]

Great finds Plumb!!, Iam waiting to get back out myself. Flooding here, more rain, then switched to snow, man its been an odd year so far.
Glad you are having some "good" luck!.
Our extended forecast is looking promising with 60-70s forecast for the weekend thru next week. Finally some good detecting/digging weather.
I even got bored and went for a walk through the woods in the snow...didnt find anything but a useable 5 gal bucket for carrying bottles, so it wasnt a total loss.
Good luck everyone, keep posting the finds/stories!.

 

[ironmountain]

lol..love the fortune cookie on 'roids comment. Nice way to end a hunt. I was going to go out today but ground still mushy. we had snow last night. only lasted til noon..now it's all mush. supposed to be up to 70 this weekend...
want to get back up to Houghton to get car parts...found a guy on CL who rebuilds cars/collects parts...he wants a list of everything i can get...
too much stuff to do...

 

[ironmountain]

anyone getting out more often now that the ground isn't so mushy and snow covered?

was nice and dry yesterday...pulled out my gear and made sure it was all cleaned up and working... did some housework and headed for the door..and turned around and went back inside.. raining. 50' degree weather cold rain.

raining today too! supposed to snow by the weekend..

Son received some really good news last week.. he received a legal sized envelope from a music program in Wisconsin. Thought it might be some info for a summer band camp. I gave him his mail (kids love them some mail) and went upstairs. He yells for me to go back downstairs. He hands me the packet of papers from the envelope and he keeps repeating "omg. you have to see this" and he's shaking..
His band director at school nominated him to be a part of the Wisconsin Music Ambassador program.... He said he hasn't nominated someone in over 8years.
Directors all over nominate kids to go and they pick 200-280 kids total. (including vocal).
They go on a 16day 9 country tour of Europe and get to play in each country. Saw some pics from last year and one group was playing on a cobblestone street in a small town...
the downside is that it runs about 5500bucks. Wife said it's a good time for me to focus on selling my stuff off... I told her to start hitting up the plasma bank!

going to be a busy and expensive year for him next year...they go to florida for a week, then europe in the summer...

time to start digging/md'ing for some treasure!

 

[MIdigger]

Great Iron, congrats to your family. Always great to hear good news. Dealing with my grandmothers passing Sat. Ive become the "family" eulogy specialist, so I usually get asked.

I did get out a bit, but only recovered $1.68 in change, some returnables, some old copper gutter clamps, a few tokens, and hit a couple rummage sales. Going to try and off some things at a flea market setting up tomorrow. College finals are Thursday, so have to do some papers while I can tomorrow nite after the FM.

Have some more leads on places to detect. Hoping to get out this weekend at the dump for a few hours also. Good luck everyone!!

 

[ironmountain]

sorry to hear about your grandmother. a very sad and stressful time. I've done quite a few eulogies also. hard to not be cliche when eulogizing.

good luck on finals! I don't miss those at all.

Nice that you were able to get a bit. How many tokens have you found this past year? you are the token master..

anything good at the rummage/garage sales? we haven't had more than a few around here yet. finally was nice just this past weekend. Norway does a city-wide rummage sale. that happens 2wks from now. wife and kids usually go hunting and call/text me to see if there's anything i want. Buddy and I are going to be selling at his house. We have 5k or so in knives set to sell, plus misc stuff. Picked up a couple hundred surplus pieces. Some leather and some canvas 3pouch AK mags. Nice for carrying junk. 7x9x3.

Convinced wife to take me to the hotel/creek to snoop. Only foliage there was low grass. found a few things in the little bit of time daughter and I were allowed.
I'm thinking that the path we take was actually a driveway/2track road. could be a rear driveway to the hotel...could also be a narrow road to the train tracks. The creek runs on the left side and the hotel on the right (hotel is on a 12' or so rise) parallel to the path/road. It dies at RR tracks and the creek marshes up at the rr tracks.

the farm on the other side of the tracks his humongous. in the middle of nowhere in the back of the farm there are a few crumbled rock foundations and a collapsed privy. Next step is to get with the owners and see if i can go poke around.

didn't have much time to dig around. we found a few things. A nice beer, a generic aqua (same bottle as the beer..only aqua) with 1959 at the base as the only embossing. Another hunk of quartz with iron and other stuff running through it..(Plumb will have to give me insight on that).

a box/tin that looks like an old tackle box. Found a horse/ox/animal shoe in a tub that i'd forgotten about. was found at the farm a cpl of feet down under a huge tree.

the creek is mush and has 6" of water so had to probe a bit. Pulled out a couple pieces of that red rim enamelware and some shards...

k..pic of teh beer...Leisen and Henes Brewing Co. Menominee, Mich...the slogan is "The Best What Is".. they were around from 1891-1919...

 

[ironmountain]

the tin box..

 

[ironmountain]

a couple cold cream/lotion jars. i like the one on the right. a diff shape and has some design on it... bottom says woodbury, mark is Carr-Lowery.