Found 52 Quarters in 4 1/2 hours at a SW Georgia HS with the SIMPLEX+

[wlb42]

Nice 60 degree day yesterday at a SW Georgia High School that I have hunted numerous times in the last several years. But this day was different - I was hunting around the "practice field", next to the huge football stadium that is always locked, and was hunting along the oval blacktop that has the old "field & track" where locals come out on the weekends to get their exercise and an older man walking on the track saw me detecting with my SIMPLEX+. He asked the usual "are you getting rich?" I said "no - but I believe I just found a quarter", because it was reading a 91 VDI - He watched as I popped out the quarter with a "screwdriver" that I use, and was curious how I knew it would be a quarter - I explained the VDI thing - and then he said I should hunt under the bleachers in the football stadium and the large grass area around the concession stand - I said I would like to but it is always locked. He said "I have the keys to all of the gates" - but did say they were currently unlocked and said that over the last 50 years no one has ever hunted under the bleachers with a metal detector that he knew of - and that I was welcome to search any of that area. I found a few coins under the bleachers but the vast majority was found in the grass areas around the concession stand, as you might expect. Thanks for looking.

The result was $14.13 all clad that included 52-quarters, 10-dimes, 1-nickel & 8-pennies for a total of 71 coins - I got LUCKY & it was a GREAT DAY. Good Luck & HH to all.




BILL
Northern FLORIDA Panhandle

 

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[wlb42]

Hey, RPM55 (alias Megalodon) - Thanks, my friend for a very kind reply - and your reflection about this great hobby that clearly we both love - May our days ahead be Happy & Productive and our pains & worries manageable - Good Luck & HH everyone.........BILL

 

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Hey Bill...While the hunt posted here is no less than eye popping, I can’t help but notice the number in your avatar area...200,000! I want to mention this to draw attention to it for the newer users out there and the potential detectorist who may be thinking the game is all but played out. This game is nowhere NEAR played out, there are so many coins in the ground waiting to be dug up the numbers are just about incalculable. Your total is a HUGE number, and it’s great to see you’re still after it. Being as you’ve been at it for 48 years, I don’t imagine that you’re a young man, but clearly one who doesn’t give up easily! Nice work being able to make it pay out AGAIN!

Hey, IDXMonster - Thanks for your comment - As you see I joined on here in 2011 almost 9 years ago now and I haven't updated my total finds of 200,000 coins found at that time - but it looks like I will reach 250,000 by the end of this year if I keep finding coins at this rate - Good Luck & HH ..... BILL

 

[Trezurehunter]

Very nice haul.