New Mexico, A Park, and a XLT

"A Socorro man has made some interesting finds in the dirt under Isidro Baca Park.

'With them tearing up the park, I saw an opportunity to do some metal detecting,' said Shannon Owen. 'They used to have fiestas there way back when, and I thought I might find something.'

Owen has been coming over in the evenings with his White XLT detector after workers are done for the day, and he hasn’t been disappointed. So far, he’s found close to fifty coins, including a few Mercury dimes dating from the 1930s and ‘40s, a Buffalo nickel and a Lincoln wheat penny or two.

'The oldest thing I’ve found is a Barber dime dated 1902,' Owen said. 'It’s got a lot of wear on it, so it was probably in circulation for quite a few years before it was dropped.'"

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A side note: Isidro Baca was a US Marine that is among the list of casualties on the Vietnam Memorial Wall in DC.