tnt-hunter
Bronze Member
- Apr 20, 2018
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- Detector(s) used
- Fisher CZ-21, Minelab Equinix 800, ,Garret AT Pro,
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
DAY 1
I went back to the middle school to grid another section. Still cleaning up hoping for some more goodies. You never know when they will pop up so you have to cover all the ground. This trip I spent 6 hours swingin the CZ21 and covered one section with decent coin luck and another smaller section with almost nothing there.
Altogether I found 84 coins with a face value of $4.07, a cheapie ring, a chewed up roundball, part of a Pepsi game tab, an ear bud, a broken wrist watch, lots of can slaw, aluminum bottle caps, aluminum wire, 30 tabs and 14 pencil ends.
The only interesting item was the round ball. It almost looks like someone bit down on it like you see in the movies. Then again it might have just been beat up when the ground was worked to make the field.
DAY 2
I went back to the K to 8 school and did some more gridding on the upper sports field. I spent 5.5 hours swingin the CZ21 and found 46 coins $3.26, 2 bullets, a silver dime, a wheatie, part of a toy car, a football cleat, aluminum bottle caps, aluminum wire, whole cans and can slaw, 29 tabs and 1 pencil end.
The silver dime is a well worn and beat up 1923 Mercury dime. I found it after I had finished the grid and was heading back to the truck swingin as I went. That seem to happen to a lot of people. It was about 7 inches down in the very dry soil. We haven’t had any rain for a good while so everything is drying up. She isn’t pretty, but she was a welcome sight and made my day.
DAY 3
I managed another trip to the scout camp. When I left last week I found a promising spot, but didn’t have time to cover it before I had to head home. It was a good spot. They had permanent tent platforms in this site for many years. They recently removed them and brought in modular units for the staff. The modular units are not on the same spots as the old platforms so I was able to detect them. There were cracks between the boards that made the floor of the platforms. Over the years many items including coins fell through the cracks. The items were thick. For a while I couldn’t make more than one swing of the detector without finding something.
I spent 6.5 hours swingin the CZ21 and found 310 coins (179 pennies) with a face value of $20.04, only 4 camp tent pegs, a dead pocket knife, fishing sinkers, a scout camp dog tag pendant, a neckerchief slide, a Dino coin, a belt hanger for a pocket knife, a cheapie carabiner, fishing lures, 2 hat pins, a game token, a cheapie ring, a stainless fork, a rope tensioner, a modern finial, 21 tabs, some foil, part of a camp cot hinge and a modern hammer head.
The ring is a cheapie and is inscribed REAL LOVE IS FOREVER THE CROWE.
There are 3 sections to the camp, Camp Freedom is one of them. The pendant was sold in the trading post. The hat pins are a council strip pin and a Braddocks Brigade pin. Braddocks Brigade is the program for first year scouts at camp. The neckerchief slide is like most of the ones I find. It is a Boy Scout slide that has been in the ground for a few years. The Dino coin is a triceratops coin. It has a picture of the triceratops on one side and information about the Dino on the back.
This is the best coin day I have had at the camp in a long time. When I started detecting at the camp in 2010 I would normally find 300 to 400 coins every trip.
DAY 4
I went to a small set of sports fields that doesn’t see a lot of use. I have had decent clad luck here in the past with some nice silver jewelry, but nothing old. There is a soccer field I have covered pretty well and a baseball field that sometimes has the gates locked so I have only done a quick check in the past. I went hoping this would be the day the gates were not locked and they weren’t.
I spent 5 hours swingin the CZ21 and doing a loose grid so I could finish the ball field while I had a chance. I found 69 coins with a face value of $6.62, a silver dime, a dog license, a feather charm, half a key, a rifle cartridge, a stainless necklace, lots of can slaw, one piece of aluminum wire and only 12 tabs.
The silver dime was a real shock. I was having decent clad luck with a high percentage of dimes and quarters. I got a weak high tone and dug my plug. I scanned the plug and the target was still in the hole. I used the Garrett carrot and found the target in the loose dry dirt in the hole. It was dark and looked like another penny. I picked it up and saw the eagle on the back. I was so surprised I almost dropped it back in the hole. Several years ago I did find a real nice capped bust half dime, but the dime has eluded me until this day. I thought OMG and started to smile and do my happy dance on the inside (I don’t do that where others can watch). It took me a long time before I stopped smiling as I went back to swingin wondering if there were any other surprises hiding in the ground. It is an 1829 capped bust dime, the first one I have found in 22.5 years of detecting. There are several varieties of this dime, one worth $6,000. Unfortunately this one is the most common variety and not worth a lot, but it isn’t for sale anyway. She has a decent amount of wear, but still looks good to me.
The flat bottom on the 2 and the small 0 on the 10 are the indicators of the variety.
I gave her a little baking soda rub to make her look a little better.
This illustrates why I detect anywhere I can get permission. These ball fields are not very old, but somehow this little beauty got lost here long ago and I managed to get my coil over her. If I didn’t detect here because I didn’t think I would find anything good I would have missed this opportunity. I know the chances of me finding this here were low, but if you don’t try you’ll never know. A quote from a Cinderella Story movie, “Never let the fear of striking out, keep you from playing the game.” So get swingin folks.
NON DETECTOR FINDS
I didn’t find much for most of the week, just 2 quarters in the coinstar and 3 pennies walking on the street and then I went to Walmart and there was a silver dime in the coinstar. 2 weeks in a row with silver in the coinstar is not normal at all around here.
So a week that started with lots of clad and not much else ended with a bucket lister and a couple of silvers. Not a bad week at all. Thanks for looking, stay safe and may your coil lead YOU to good things (like mine did for me).
I went back to the middle school to grid another section. Still cleaning up hoping for some more goodies. You never know when they will pop up so you have to cover all the ground. This trip I spent 6 hours swingin the CZ21 and covered one section with decent coin luck and another smaller section with almost nothing there.
Altogether I found 84 coins with a face value of $4.07, a cheapie ring, a chewed up roundball, part of a Pepsi game tab, an ear bud, a broken wrist watch, lots of can slaw, aluminum bottle caps, aluminum wire, 30 tabs and 14 pencil ends.
The only interesting item was the round ball. It almost looks like someone bit down on it like you see in the movies. Then again it might have just been beat up when the ground was worked to make the field.
DAY 2
I went back to the K to 8 school and did some more gridding on the upper sports field. I spent 5.5 hours swingin the CZ21 and found 46 coins $3.26, 2 bullets, a silver dime, a wheatie, part of a toy car, a football cleat, aluminum bottle caps, aluminum wire, whole cans and can slaw, 29 tabs and 1 pencil end.
The silver dime is a well worn and beat up 1923 Mercury dime. I found it after I had finished the grid and was heading back to the truck swingin as I went. That seem to happen to a lot of people. It was about 7 inches down in the very dry soil. We haven’t had any rain for a good while so everything is drying up. She isn’t pretty, but she was a welcome sight and made my day.
DAY 3
I managed another trip to the scout camp. When I left last week I found a promising spot, but didn’t have time to cover it before I had to head home. It was a good spot. They had permanent tent platforms in this site for many years. They recently removed them and brought in modular units for the staff. The modular units are not on the same spots as the old platforms so I was able to detect them. There were cracks between the boards that made the floor of the platforms. Over the years many items including coins fell through the cracks. The items were thick. For a while I couldn’t make more than one swing of the detector without finding something.
I spent 6.5 hours swingin the CZ21 and found 310 coins (179 pennies) with a face value of $20.04, only 4 camp tent pegs, a dead pocket knife, fishing sinkers, a scout camp dog tag pendant, a neckerchief slide, a Dino coin, a belt hanger for a pocket knife, a cheapie carabiner, fishing lures, 2 hat pins, a game token, a cheapie ring, a stainless fork, a rope tensioner, a modern finial, 21 tabs, some foil, part of a camp cot hinge and a modern hammer head.
The ring is a cheapie and is inscribed REAL LOVE IS FOREVER THE CROWE.
There are 3 sections to the camp, Camp Freedom is one of them. The pendant was sold in the trading post. The hat pins are a council strip pin and a Braddocks Brigade pin. Braddocks Brigade is the program for first year scouts at camp. The neckerchief slide is like most of the ones I find. It is a Boy Scout slide that has been in the ground for a few years. The Dino coin is a triceratops coin. It has a picture of the triceratops on one side and information about the Dino on the back.
This is the best coin day I have had at the camp in a long time. When I started detecting at the camp in 2010 I would normally find 300 to 400 coins every trip.
DAY 4
I went to a small set of sports fields that doesn’t see a lot of use. I have had decent clad luck here in the past with some nice silver jewelry, but nothing old. There is a soccer field I have covered pretty well and a baseball field that sometimes has the gates locked so I have only done a quick check in the past. I went hoping this would be the day the gates were not locked and they weren’t.
I spent 5 hours swingin the CZ21 and doing a loose grid so I could finish the ball field while I had a chance. I found 69 coins with a face value of $6.62, a silver dime, a dog license, a feather charm, half a key, a rifle cartridge, a stainless necklace, lots of can slaw, one piece of aluminum wire and only 12 tabs.
The silver dime was a real shock. I was having decent clad luck with a high percentage of dimes and quarters. I got a weak high tone and dug my plug. I scanned the plug and the target was still in the hole. I used the Garrett carrot and found the target in the loose dry dirt in the hole. It was dark and looked like another penny. I picked it up and saw the eagle on the back. I was so surprised I almost dropped it back in the hole. Several years ago I did find a real nice capped bust half dime, but the dime has eluded me until this day. I thought OMG and started to smile and do my happy dance on the inside (I don’t do that where others can watch). It took me a long time before I stopped smiling as I went back to swingin wondering if there were any other surprises hiding in the ground. It is an 1829 capped bust dime, the first one I have found in 22.5 years of detecting. There are several varieties of this dime, one worth $6,000. Unfortunately this one is the most common variety and not worth a lot, but it isn’t for sale anyway. She has a decent amount of wear, but still looks good to me.
The flat bottom on the 2 and the small 0 on the 10 are the indicators of the variety.
I gave her a little baking soda rub to make her look a little better.
This illustrates why I detect anywhere I can get permission. These ball fields are not very old, but somehow this little beauty got lost here long ago and I managed to get my coil over her. If I didn’t detect here because I didn’t think I would find anything good I would have missed this opportunity. I know the chances of me finding this here were low, but if you don’t try you’ll never know. A quote from a Cinderella Story movie, “Never let the fear of striking out, keep you from playing the game.” So get swingin folks.
NON DETECTOR FINDS
I didn’t find much for most of the week, just 2 quarters in the coinstar and 3 pennies walking on the street and then I went to Walmart and there was a silver dime in the coinstar. 2 weeks in a row with silver in the coinstar is not normal at all around here.
So a week that started with lots of clad and not much else ended with a bucket lister and a couple of silvers. Not a bad week at all. Thanks for looking, stay safe and may your coil lead YOU to good things (like mine did for me).
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