Todays MD finds

[NoHope587]

Todays Haul. Had to wait until this evening due to the heat.
Went to a new (to us anyway) school we found whilst driving the other day.
The School was built in 1918.
It has obviously been searched as there was nothing around the play area but who ever did the searching forgot to check under the big oak trees.

[LordPercy]

Hey, That looks like my front door key that I lost about five years ago.............Quite a nice looking haul there nohope!

[Nighthawk]

Nice haul there nohope! I need to clean off my old MD and get back out there looking again. I've actually had better luck searching thru rolls of coins from the bank. I have found in coin rolls a lot of wheat cents, buffalo and silver wartime nickels, silver half dollars, foreign coins, etc.... One time I found an 1858 Flying Eagle cent in Good condition, and a 1924-D Lincoln cent in VF+ with a ROTATED REVERSE!! How 'bout that for some coin finds?

[TwoShadows]

Looks like to me that school, back in those days, was very lax with rules and regulations? The kids brought their lunch, which they ate under the old oak trees due to lack of air conditioning, got drunk and did what ever kids would do, which included rolling around in the grass. That would explain all the loose change and the house key! Of course that young lad probably got a good whippin when his parents found out he had lost the key!!! And he probably didn't get any more beer in his lunch for a week!!!
Disicipline was very strict back then!!!

[scottishmoney]

The pull tabs are a bit more recent.  I have found some very recent ones in my backyard recently, we have a guest staying with us this summer and he pulls the tops off of cans and tosses them.

I have to get my detector out again and start trenching the backyard again soon.

[Nighthawk]

If I had a guest that kept trashing my yard, he'd be looking for another place to stay real fast! LOL 

[NoHope587]

Depends if he was throwing out mercs barbers and 2 Cent coins he could stay as long as he wants. pull tabs at 79cents a pound he would not be quite so welcome.

[Nighthawk]

Nohope, I like the way you think!!! 

[KurtS]

the square metal plate is interesting, as well as the folded, greenish object--that looks like an old cartridge casing, or perhaps copper jacketing?

[scottishmoney]

If I had a guest that kept trashing my yard, he'd be looking for another place to stay real fast! LOL 

Well, he is 8 years old, and probably never saw pulltab cans before.  But after a lengthy discussion in Russian, he now recycles them.  BTW, he does like the metal detector too, and he found a dime in the backyard last week.  Of course hitting pulltabs became a lesson for him.

[scottishmoney]

Today with a bit of perseverance I went back over a couple of hit sites in my backyard where I never managed to find the "hit", and it paid off finally, a 1956 Wheat and a 1965 Memorial.  Under the same elm tree as before.

[NoHope587]

I often find if I leave sites for a few weeks or months and go back new things show up even though I am fairly certain nothing new has been deposited. I guess general ground conditions play a big part in how well the detector works.

[scottishmoney]

This MD stuff becomes addictive, I mean it bothered me that my detector was emitting the coin beep and I couldn't find the coin.  At one of the holes it took quite a bit of sifting to finally find it.  But the '56 Wheat was right on the surface, but we have had a couple of heavy rains in the past week so I am sure it was unearthed by the rain.

I am going to MD the backyard again on the deeper setting, really wouldn't mind finding more obsolete coins, the three Wheats are pretty exciting so far.

[scottishmoney]

Yesterday with some trepidation, but a bit more determination I went and scoured a couple of "hit" sites again, they were the findless wonder sites.  Anyway I dug out a dateless zincoln, the next site was a real PITA, the find was literally under a tree root, about 7" under the ground, but a 1958 Wheat.  So far I have found 4 Wheats in the backyard, a 1917, 1945-D, a 1955, and now the 1958.  These all came from under the elm tree.  There are more hits back there, but I am going to have to come up with a chicken wire screen thing or something before I want to dig and sift again.

I am getting more confident using the deeper settings on my machine.  But the digging stinks, which is why I want a screen/mesh thing to put dirt through.  Canna wait to see if silver lurks under the elm.