My 2015 finds worth posting -- updated 12/14/15
WhiteTornado
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Got out for the first time this year. Went on a hunt with the local treasure club to a city park. Found $1.54 in clad, a Chuck E. Cheese token, and a key. Yesterday's all-day rains provided easy digging but also left some areas water-logged. From what I heard, I may have found as much or more than anyone else in the group. One guy did find an Eisenhower dollar; did not hear if it had any silver content.
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<< <i>not a bad haul. How many guys were in the hunt? >>
Thanks. I think we had about a dozen or so this time.
<< <i>Nice finds.... still cold and snow on the ground here....any wheaties in those cents?? Cheers, RickO >>
No Wheaties this time, just modern Lincolns.
I did find a 1963 Roosie in there a few months ago, and I thought that was really something.
Rodney, it was nice to get out, wasn't it? I thought sure it would take me a while to get my technique back, but it didn't take long at all.
Total for the day was just 63 cents in clad and no other keepers to speak of. It was a short hunt but nice to get out and really good weather.
After the hunt we were treated to a cookout with burgers and hotdogs. Weather was perfect and it was a great outing.
<< <i>Luck O' The Irish came one day early for me.
I have to say you live in a good Coinstar area!
I have found a few "hauls" with about half the number of coins like that on 3-4 occasions!
I am just amazed how folks just walk away without bothering to check the rejection slot!
One of our members showed a metal detector that was sent to him by a dealer, asking him to try it out and provide feedback. It was a brand I'd never heard of, Nokta, made in Turkey. Seems like an interesting machine, probably on level with the AT Pro.
Thanks for sharing!
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Hope you can straighten out the bend in it. Congrats!
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One member did an overview of the Fisher F75. I'm not real familiar with Fisher machines, but he seems like a devoted customer and really knew his stuff. The prez and VP also did a presentation on beach hunting: machines they use, equipment needed, and techniques. That is what I like best about this club, they give back in terms of knowledge. I've learned so much in the past year.
We chased a very deep signal near the stump of a large pine tree that was recently cut down. We were probably beyond 8 or 9 inches and gave up on it. Not sure what it was. I'm guessing it was a large hunk of junk the way the pinpointer signal kept jumping around. This park is maybe 30 or 40 years old at the most, so I doubt it was any deeply buried goody like old silver.
Even tried a bit around the basketball court again. Maintenance crews had recently cut the really tall grass/weeds that are just beyond the short stuff around the court. Found a couple of Zincolns in there, might be more to be found, but by that time it was getting hot and my son and I both had enough for the day.
Was nice getting him out there and that beats anything we were going to find anyway
Hope everyone had a fun and safe 4th of July.
Supposedly this farm has never been hunted or the land even changed much, so hopes were high going in. Turns out that our group didn't find any really big, earth-shattering keepers. Only one old coin was found that I'm aware of, and not by me. It was really slicked and heavy with patina. Our best guess was either a Large Cent or a British coin of some sort. We couldn't make out any details. One person found a flat button and a musket ball. Another found what he thought was a gold-plated button, but he said it was practically falling apart so it's hard to verify if it was gold (I didn’t see it myself). He said it rang up as gold on his Whites detector.
(EDIT: I received confirmation that in addition to the old, unidentifiable coin mentioned above, our group also found a silver Washie, two V nickels, and a button with the name of a local college on it.)
Plenty of farm junk was found, horse tack, pieces of tools (such as a shovel head), etc. Much of it was corroded beyond being able to see any markings or any way to date them. One guy found a neat license plate of some sort. Was too small to be from a car, but too large to be a dog license. It said 1908 and had some other writing on it. I only got a brief glance at it. It was about the size of an index card.
My personal tally was only a clad quarter, clad dime, and a Lincoln Memorial cent. Beyond that, I found a few heavy junk objects. Found some small rivet thingy I need to clean up, but it looks modern at first glance.
A couple of guys went down toward the historic mansion and even hunted the grass next to the driveway that leads to a locked gate. They didn't find anything of significance. I tried along the road right next to the horse farm but after about the 4th pull tab, decided it wasn't worth it. After a few more passes in the horse field, the clouds broke up and it got sunny and hot. That was when I figured it was time to pack it in for the day. Glad we were able to go yesterday and not today, as it is very hot out there now. Summer has returned with a vengeance here in Maryland, after some relatively mild weather in the previous week.
Overall it was a good experience and this was my first time hunting any farm land. Hopefully we get another outing in that area again. I recently ordered a Sampson T-handle shovel and this was my first outing with it. Worked like a champ, easily dug deep, clean plugs and it doesn’t weigh all that much, either.
Tried one home, no answer. Went a half a block or so down the road, found a home where the people were outside, so that made it easy to reach them
The folks were nice and they eventually went inside, so it was nice they weren't breathing down our neck or anything. I did agree ahead of time to show the guy what we found, and he came out partway through and I showed him the junk we had found up to that point and a couple of the pennies. Funny thing, I knocked one more time as we were leaving, to give them one final thank you. After they shut the door, I found another new, shiny dime sitting on their front steps
I later looked up the address and their home dates to the late 1930s, so there was promise at least. I will have to go back to that neighborhood sometime. There are a lot more of those older homes along there. This was only my second attempt at getting permission, so practice makes perfect I suppose.
Saw your post on the detecting forum. Congrats on getting out and knocking on some doors. It can be frustrating knocking and getting a "no" or finding no one home, but you will eventually get access to some great places. Seems like my success rate is about 50% once you find someone at home, but I think with your son by your side, that should help your chances.
As you can see this is a highly threatening message!
I've never found anything in the CoinStar return slot except a very badly corroded Zincoln, once.