Mercury Dimes in Darien

Woohoo!  Before the sun went down I decided to head out to do a little metal detecting.  Hmmm.. where the go?  Where to go?  That's always the question.  I decided to go to Woodland Park in Darien because I haven't detected there before.  There's not a lot of features to the park so I wasn't expecting much.  No lake, no real river to speak of... just a bunch of hiking paths.  Well shortly after arriving I found a little clearing in the middle of the preserve and figured this looked like a good spot.

Sure enough the first thing I dug up was a Mercury Dime (in poor shape) from 1918.  Shortly thereafter in a different area of the clearing I found a beautiful 1941 Mercury Dime and a bunch of wheat pennies all in a bunch.  I guess this area was a hangout for teens in the 40s or 50s or something.

Here are some pics of the actual coins:



On a path in the woods I got a deep signal that kept registering as a coin.  I've found that when I get the high beep repeatedly from my Land Star it is almost never wrong.  It's gotta be a coin.  I dug down at least 6 inches into rocky, hard clayish soil and came up empty.  I wish I had brought along my probe!  There's something good down there!