My new record for most coins found! (July 4th update)
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This was in Ben Lomond, CA, at an old school house in the middle of the Redwoods that was built in 1895. It was NOT a fun place to detect, the area is actually kind of creepy 'cause it's in the middle of the woods.
In any case, I broke my record for the most coins found! Still just pennies, but I hit 70 even before quitting and the detector was still beeping that there were some more. My friends were with me and they were getting bored by that point.
It was at a historical schoolhouse. It's a new hoard-- the newest was from 2006.
There may be more older coins there, I just didn't have enough time as my non-detectorist friends were with me.
July 4th Update: I just spent the day volunteering at the schoolhouse to help raise money to keep the little schoolhouse in repairs-- one of the events was a penny toss, RIGHT where I had found so many pennies before. My total penny count ended up being around 190! This answers:
1. Why there's so many coins in a tiny area.
2. Why there's only cents, not dimes or quarters.
In any case, I broke my record for the most coins found! Still just pennies, but I hit 70 even before quitting and the detector was still beeping that there were some more. My friends were with me and they were getting bored by that point.
It was at a historical schoolhouse. It's a new hoard-- the newest was from 2006.There may be more older coins there, I just didn't have enough time as my non-detectorist friends were with me.
July 4th Update: I just spent the day volunteering at the schoolhouse to help raise money to keep the little schoolhouse in repairs-- one of the events was a penny toss, RIGHT where I had found so many pennies before. My total penny count ended up being around 190! This answers:
1. Why there's so many coins in a tiny area.
2. Why there's only cents, not dimes or quarters.
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My son and I have recently gotten into the detecting hobby and have searched some promising areas that are considered
"old," as you say the schoolhouse is.Oftentimes,however,the location with the best potential have so much junk in the ground that the detector,even though it might have a pretty good discriminator,needs some help from you so that it can do its job and find those deeper and more valuable targets.
Literally, the coins are to be found in more than one layer if the location is old and people have gathered at the location more or less continuously for all those years to the present.
Have you found Wheaties at the schoolhouse? As others on this forum will tell you,if you can find Wheaties,the potential is there to eventually experience the joy of finding a silver coin.
I have some advice. Leave your non-detectorist friend at home,unless hotter than your detector,next time you go to the old schoolhouse.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.-Albert Einstein
Jerry