G.D. ["There was a time when you could walk up to a school and pull $50.00 or more in silver in an afternoon. Now we fight for a few silver coins in a week."]
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That is what I was wondering. Many of the sites I work have been worked before [parks, ball fields, fair grounds] and I find a few coins from before 1980 but many from after and I was thinking that there may have been a big silver hunt when H bunkey ran up the price of silver?
?. What got me to thinking about this was a school yard I hunt regularly. The school was torn down in 1965 and it was an orange grove up till the freeze in 1990 and now it is weeds. Right now I think I'm the only one that braves the weeds and snakes and hunts there. I figure most of the coins should be silver or at least before 1965. In many hunts, I've found one Roosevelt and a 1914 liberty dime and some clad probably dropped by the grove workers. I have 2 other theories about this site as well. One that it was filled or scraped or both, I found a mound on site which contains rusty nails hinges wire etc that is consistent with scraping, the second is that the old coin sunk deep down into the sand out of reach of my F-75. I believe this because one of the silver coins was found at the driveway entrance which still is hard packed gravel. I'm still working on this.
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