Went back to the fairgrounds today with Coin Magnet Jr, Larry & Mark for some more fun in the woods!

I had a much better day in terms of silver but the quality of the Indians wasn't nearly as good as last week.

We hunted most of the day and the weather was great. This woods is pretty challenging. There is lot of brush and quite a few fallen trees and the coins like to hide under all of it so you have to work your way in between brush and roll over logs to find the goodies. So needless to say we were all pretty tired at the end of the day.

Everyone got silver and Mark walked away with the most and best! He ended up getting 9 silvers! 2 of them were 1895 barber dimes! One was almost slick and the other one was on top of the ground and in pretty good shape. The good one was definitely an S mint and I think the slick one was too. 1895s are TOUGH to find (I've never found one) and for him to get 2 in one day is simply amazing to me.

I got my first SLQ in years and that definitely made my day even if it is dateless

Jr got some NICE Indians and Larry got a good dime. I hope they all post soon.

I ended up with the ones below and 6 more Indians and 10 Wheaties. The 08 was the best of the Indians in terms of condition.

This place wears me out but after I rest a while I can't wait to get back there

WOW, thats a nice handful of silver!

From the dates on the coins in addition to the wheats, mercs, etc. you guys are finding there, looks like that Fairground was active from around the turn of the Century to around the 1930s?

The 1961 'seated' found there might suggest earlier but from the pic it looks like it was worn down from use and might of been in circulation for a few decades until it was finally dropped.

Anyhow nice job finding that site.

ironsight wrote:
It goes back to the 1860s! Jr found 65 Indians that look like brand new yesterday. I'm going back there for a couple hours of hunting this afternoon.

The old fairgrounds continues to give up the goodies!

Here are Mark's finds from Saturday.

A 1895 O Barber dime AND an 1895 S Barber dime!

The 1895 S dime find was on top of the ground. Digging not required!

I'm going to try out this idea next time we go back.

With a honey hole like that, i'd invest in the smallest coil i could find for the eTRAC.

In theory i think the inline probe might work. What i would try is to jury rig a round heavyish flat (slightly oval if possible) plastic plate to the business end of the probe so it would glide over the turf. Maybe 5" in dia. or so... then duct tape the probe to the detector's shaft. Would reduce fatigue from lifting the detector off the ground. But then again, don't know how well that would work in the heavy brush.

Got a lot of sites here that have nails every few inches that i'm sure they're masking deep oldies. You're extremely lucky those coins are shallow.

I've never used an inline probe, what are the depth capabilities of them things?
Say compared to the standard Garrett handheld pinpointer?

ironsight wrote:
Can't tell you about the Garrett but the Sunray can go 3 inches and maybe 4. The only problem is they quit making them at the end of last year! So if you find one you better buy it.

My friend Gary GAVE me a 5" Sunray coil a week ago Saturday and I can't wait to get it in to this woods!

Goes to prove nothing is hunted out. Nice finds Keith.

Kieth those are very nice. I hope we can find some like that this Sunday.