Hunted an older homesite and got a couple of goodies. Used the Cointrax in standard disc mode mostly, A&S with small coil in the junker areas. Great day for detecting, sunny with a high in the 50's. Nothing deeper than 5 inches, and the ground was so soft from the rain a digger wasn't really needed .
 Got two of the usual tax tokens, Merc is 1918, one wheatie is 1923 and the other two are dateless. Eagle button is WW I era, token is a James K Polk presidential token, from the 1930's I believe. Polk is the president that formed the Army of the West and took New Mexico, Arizona and California away from Mexico. I like the W.P.A. tag best, it's from a Work Progress Administration (renamed Works Project Administration in 1939) project during the Great Depression. In 1935 and 1936 my father drove a 1929 Dodge dump truck, like the ones in the bottom photo, hauling gravel and dirt for a W.P.A. highway project. Would like to know what the project that tag was for, but a search using the numbers didn't turn anything up. Not pictured is about 5 pounds of lead, brass and other junk. 
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