I'm back! (Found my first hoard!)
kiyote
Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭✭✭
I spent a week travelling around Ohio, including an overngiht stay at Prospect Place in Trinway, Ohio.. (If any of you watch Ghost Hunters, you might remember that episode)
I did NOT bring my detector and regretted it-- Ohio is FULL of abandonded farmland and houses just ripe for detecting in! Yes, someone may have went over them in the 90s with a $69 Radio Shack detector, but there's more than enough to go around, I think.
On to the good stuff-- I did hook up with my brother, who has a White's MXT. We swung it around a driveway area near the barn and soon his detector was screaming penny-- we commenced to diggin'! Soon, out popped four Lincoln cents.
"Wow, four pennies in one hole, weird." I said. I waved another hand full of dirt in front of the detector. It beeped. I halved that hand full of dirt and each one beeped again. Soon we were pulling out cent after cent after cent-- 53 in all, from a small hole only a few inches deep! I have pics that I'll post later. It was a record for each of us, as far as amount. It looks like some kid might have buried them for some reason. The oldest was 1964, the newest was 1994.
If only they had been Mercury dimes.
I did NOT bring my detector and regretted it-- Ohio is FULL of abandonded farmland and houses just ripe for detecting in! Yes, someone may have went over them in the 90s with a $69 Radio Shack detector, but there's more than enough to go around, I think.
On to the good stuff-- I did hook up with my brother, who has a White's MXT. We swung it around a driveway area near the barn and soon his detector was screaming penny-- we commenced to diggin'! Soon, out popped four Lincoln cents.
"Wow, four pennies in one hole, weird." I said. I waved another hand full of dirt in front of the detector. It beeped. I halved that hand full of dirt and each one beeped again. Soon we were pulling out cent after cent after cent-- 53 in all, from a small hole only a few inches deep! I have pics that I'll post later. It was a record for each of us, as far as amount. It looks like some kid might have buried them for some reason. The oldest was 1964, the newest was 1994.
If only they had been Mercury dimes.
"I'll split the atom! I am the fifth dimension! I am the eighth wonder of the world!" -Gef the talking mongoose.
0
Comments
<< <i>I hope you knew enough to add a few more and put them back. >>
I pondered that, actually. It's only 53 cents to me, but if I threw in another 20 and left it, it could thrill the pants off of another detectorist in 30 years...
Me, posin' with the hoard...
A close up of the bounty.
<< <i>i hope you filled in your holes ? your you tube vids are causing uproars on other md'ing sites...good luck and hh >>
SOME THING IS GOING ON HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now you keep clad cents!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dave, Look at this video...Is that the same detector with the coil wire looped on the rod????
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8OcEE8lQsE&feature=related
Jerry
Second metal detecting video.
<< <i>People sure make a fuss about that video! My second one didn't go over so well, either. Second metal detecting video. >>
What's the deal? You playing a game with us?
Web page:
Jerry
<< <i>Ah.. mystery solved.. you made quite a few MD forums with those videos... Cheers, RickO >>
The point of this hobby is to have fun, however one defines that.
<< <i>
<< <i>Ah.. mystery solved.. you made quite a few MD forums with those videos... Cheers, RickO >>
The point of this hobby is to have fun, however one defines that.
funny guy! funny guy!.....hh
BTW, I've seen your vids and read the comments.
You're NOT setting a good example by NOT covering your holes and
slinging unwanted coins around a field.
<< <i>You're NOT setting a good example by NOT covering your holes and >>
I agree.....and even if the video is a joke, it's a poor joke in a hobby that is under constant attack from those that want it stopped. Please take the videos down...