Metal Detecting - 2 Silver, 1 Wheat and Elongated Cent

Hello everyone,
Welcome to my 29,000th post celebration thread!

Today I did a 5 hour detecting hunt at Prospect Park located in Brooklyn NYC.

Here are my finds of US Coins and Misc Items
13 - Clad Quarters
1 - 1943 Silver Quarter
27 - Dimes
1 - 1951 Silver Dime
5 - Nickels
24 - Cents
1 - 1944 Wheat Cent
21 - Crappy Zincolns
2 - Foreign Colombia 100 & 200 Pesos

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My Miscellaneous Metals were
1 - Huge Junker Ring
2 - 925 Silver Earings
1 - Elongated Cent

 

The Elongated Cent is in bad shape but it is a tourist item from The Duquense Incline located in Pittsburgh PA

 

Any Centavos?

 

No just Colombian Pesos.

 

I think that 1943 Quarter is off-metal. Struck on a black beauty nickel from 1957 clearly.

 

I will send it to NGC for Attribution.. When It gets back to me you will be the first to know!

 

Ed - have you ever pulled up Revolutionary War relics or the like?

 

See ya never again then!

 

This is a father and daughter detecting duo. They have a YouTube channel. I met them for the first time today. She found 2 silver Mercury Dimes and he found a 1877 Seated Dime and a 1844 Half Dime today. Sorry that I didn't get a shot of the coins..

(I'm in the middle)

They are known as the Diggin Duo

 

Man, I would love to be on the East Coast again, for the early American history. Amazing coins to dig, the seated dime and half dime.

Nice score yourself! I have jars of clad quarters, dimes and nickels found metal detecting campsites in New Mex. Only 2 silver dimes

 

Pretty awesome finds, but they are an excitable duo. Rough digs and rubbing the coins...yikes!! Amazing what the earth holds though. I hope you're having some of that success.

 

Another good day at the park. Nice job.

 

Nice! I went out today and the only thing I found was that the ground is still frozen a couple inches down!

 

Great finds there. I am also a metal detectorist here in Norway. Been doing it for a couple of years now. As I collect US coin only, it would be cool one day to detect in the USA. The last coin that I found was a 5 øre with only 600.000 copies. I am still waiting to get to my first skilling. That's the coins used before øre and krone. Happy hunting mate

 

Great find! Thanks for sharing and welcome to CoinTalk!

 

Hi.. Thanks for the question.
I myself have not been to places where I can find items like that. The park I visited today was a Civil War camp and my friends have found some military buttons such as Artillery buttons with the letter A on them. I don't think anything Revolutionary though.

I found this once but I have no idea what it could be!
It is in bad shape.

 

I don't want you to tell me any secret, but, what part of the country was this hunt in? And, was it an old city park or an old encampment? What kinds of places do you guys go to find that many old coins? It almost seems to be too good to be true.

 

Ha Ha.. I mentioned it in the first post.
Prospect Park Brooklyn NY. I do most of NYC where allowed especially the famous beaches like Coney Island, The Rockaways, Manhattan Beach and Orchard Beach.

 

Sorry

Sorry @paddyman98 I thought you mentioned that you were going out of town and I wrongly assumed you were actually out of your normal stomping grounds.