Posted by JB(MS) on 10/29/2009, 9:48 am
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A guy who owns an old house here in town he's only used for storing stuff for several years told me I could detect the yard. The yard is small, but the house was built around 1920 so it had/has potential. I hunted from the walk down one side of the front and halfway down the north side of the house and got 24 coins and an Alabama tax token. I9 of the coins were 1960's and early 70's memorial pennies, a 1965 clad dime, a 1954 nickel and three wheaties. Odd in that except for a 1974 penny that was maybe four inches down the other coins were less than two inches deep, but even with all the rain we've had (it's raining now) the ground in the part of the yard I hunted is very hard with gravel in it.
The best part of the hunt was that a guy, Mike Carter, who was a close friend and coworker back in the 1960's and 70's stopped by. He had polio as a child and for the last 20 years has been confined to a wheelchair. He doesn't live far from where I was hunting. He came down the street in a motorized wheelchair and we relived some old memories. When I got my first detector in 1969 he went with me detecting quite a lot, and when I had a sideline business painting houses in the early 1970's he helped me. Even though he could barely walk back then he was a hard worker. I lost touch with him when I went to work at True Temper. He said he had bought a Whites detector and detected until he couldn't get around, but thought he could do it from his wheelchair with a lightweight detector but he said he couldn't afford much over $100 for one. I told him a Tesoro Compadre would be ideal and he asked me to be on the lookout for one. Wish I had known a couple of weeks ago as there was one on Craigslist for $50. The detecting was pretty much a bust as far as the coins found, but running into Mike again made it a great hunt. 
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