Metal Detecting - 1919 Mercury Dime & Another Silver Trinket

Hello everyone,
Yesterday I did a 5-hour dirt fishing hunt at Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn NYC. I left my gloves home by mistake, and it was drizzling in the morning for about 2 hours.
So, my hands became all muddy .. I won't make that mistake again!

1919 - Winged Liberty Head Dime
And another silver pendant. I found one last weekend.



11 Wheat Cents - Shown with Dime


Everything - Tons of Dimes


This Cent was damaged. I find a lot of these and keep them so they won't fall into the hands of new collectors. They would think it is some kind of mint error!


Miscellaneous Pics


I hope the weather is good for this next July 4th. I am off from work, so I am heading to a place called Hunter Island where we found a new area loaded with silver coins. I'm going at it alone and making sure I will take frozen Gatorade and plenty of insect repellant and tick repellant. Both repellants are needed in this area!

 

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Good luck at Hunter Island

 

@paddyman98 Good luck and take lots of pictures.

 

Thanks!

As you can see in this map the location is not really an Island but more of a peninsula. It is north of the parking lot and Orchard Beach. The big yellow X is the area where I will be detecting. The area is full of Deer.

 

That silver pendant is intricate as the dickens. I bet someone was broken hearted when they discovered that had fallen from it's chain.

 

In addition to the insect repellants don't forget your sunblock.

 

I wonder if you can train a dog to sniff out coins to challenge paddyman, that would be great huh. Just kidding!

 

I see a bunch of "missing clad layer" in there too.

 

Don't forget the gloves/ Deet. Long sleeves and long pants going into Lyme disease territory.

 

The protective clothing I have perfected over the years.

We use this to defend ourselves against ticks!

 

Definitely. I'm fair skinned so I burn easily. The only place I don't apply sunblock are my ears because they are covered by my headphones most of the time.

 

I might do a video for that trip!

 

Great finds and best wishes for a safe and successful hunt at Hunter Island.

 

As with many of your "hunts" very few if
any nickels. I wonder why?

 

You are correct. It's a mystery to me. I do find them but 1 or 2 like every 5 or 6 outings.

 

I'm not sure if this is true but years ago, I was told that a nickel gave a signal that was close to what a pull tab gave and the machine might ignore it. I found more nickels when I searched in all metal. I don't know for sure.

 

Yes. On my NOKTA Legend pull tabs show 26-28. I tend to ignore those numbers. Nickels have the 28 and silver war Nickel ring up 30-32. I dig up the numbers but usually get the pull tabs. Huge gold rings can come up as 28-30 so at the beach I don't ignore them. I mostly get pull tabs but at least I'm cleaning up the sand.