Large 925 Mariner Crusifix and Chain, Gold Tooth

Boobydoo

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Hello and hope everyone is getting out swinging this weekend!

I had one of those kind of aggravating days, some bad luck, but a little good luck too. Had my route all planned and headed out early this morning to hit some parks first and then schoolyards. I went to four different parks and every one of them had pea gravel or just bare dirt in their play areas. Not worth it, moved on, not enough easy pillaging areas for me. ;) Then, the first school district I hit, they had pea gravel too. Dang. Luckily, I had multiple back up plans and the second school district had woodchips.

All of these schools had fairly small play areas so I was able to go through each of them in a little over hour each. But my bad luck continued. While I was hunting the third school, my kid called and had a problem, so I had to pack it up and go home, oh well. Everything is fine by the way.

I didn't think I found that many coins, but when I cleaned them up, I was pleasantly surprized with the totals. The best surprise while cleaning them up was a discovered one of the dimes was a silver roosie, 1964 D.

At the first school, about five feet out from the slide, I got my first keeper of the day. A pretty large 925 mariner crusifix. It was only about 3/4" of an inch under the chips. After I found that, I slowly and carefully scanned the area around it and found a piece of the chain it was on. I continued to search and found the entire chain in five different pieces. It's hallmarked Sterling. I can't understand how it could get so chopped up like that, in so many pieces. Oh well, I'll take it, two keepers, I was happy. At the second school, I found a large gold tooth, a molar crown. It has some nice weight to it. Kind of gross, but hey it's Gold!! :D. My last keeper was a cool sterling beading link piece at the third school just before I left.

So the totals for the day were, all the nice gold and silver keepers, 175 coins for a face value of $13.28 in 3hours hunt time. Lots of zipper pulls again today Mastereagle :) , one pretty junque ring and a few other trinket pieces, not as much as normal I guess. I found one forien coin. It's a one Aehar 1993??? Also got two play tokens, not Chuck E Cheese. I might go out again in the moring tomorrow, we'll see. head back over towards the richer side of town this time maybe.

With the three sterling jewelry pieces found today, that puts me at exactly 100 sterling silver jewelry pieces for the season. I am at 46 gold pieces this year so far.

Thanks for reading, HH to all.
Here's some photos of Today's Finds and my keepers.

Smiles!
BDoo
 

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bob !! master of playgrounds !! another great hunt my friend.....
way cool cross dude ! ;D ;D ;D ;D
 

By the looks of that Rosie, I would've discovered it to be silver after about 1/10's of a second looking at it. How deep was that?
 

Beautiful digs there Boo :)
It's obvious that you are a serious detector , by the way you have
your hunts planned out in advance , and it certainly pays off for you.
I guess the only way I'll ever loot a gold tooth is if I dig up a brass
knucks first ;) ;D

Doozis
 

Congratulations Bobby,

Looks like even off days for you with many spots skipped still brings out a good pile of bling. Always great seeing your posts.

Doug
 

weasel606 said:
i had to work today so no hunting for me , maybe tommorow :-\ but it sure looks like you did great ;) congrats

It was one of those days, but in the end, got a couple keepers and a nice pouchful. Thanks Weas!

Smiles!
BDoo
 

skierbob said:
It never ceases to amaze me the number of finds you make in a day, B-Doo.
That's a lot of work. But, as an old sailor that crucifix and anchor piece really appeals to me. The chain is nice and the 64 Roosie is just gravy. HH
Bob

Funny about the silver roosie, never new I dug it until I was cleaning... just another shiney new coin (I thought). I'll take it and the others. Thanks buddy!

Smiles!
BDoo
 

treasureguy said:
nice finds as usual, wtg on all those rare finds, gold tooth, very large 925 etc, awesome tg

Thanks a lot Treas guy, appreciate the read and friendly comment!

Smiles!
BDoo
 

watercolor said:
Outstanding, that's a real decent haul. . . MUCH better than the screaming canning jar lids I found today buried at 9-inches :D

Those are exciting too sometimes as we all dream of a cache jar underneath them filled with coins. Thanks watercolor!

Smiles!
BDoo
 

Captain Clad said:
Hey BDoo ---

Nice day! Those tot lots seem to be a good option when the desire to hunt doesn't equal the energy level at hand ;) and the gold & silver make it worth it for sure. Looking forward to my first "non-clad" goodie! Amazing too how fast the clad can add up as you go.....KA---CHING! ;D

Congrats again,

Steve & Peggy
Captain Clad & Admiral Abuse

Hi Steve and Peggy

I am so spoiled with the easy pickins in the woodchips. I have hardly got out for coinshooting hunts at old sites this year at all. Oh well, I'll take what I can get. I hope you all get your keeper goodie soon, good luck!

Smiles!
BDoo
 

Bobbydoo ,you have more gold then Fort Knox!! ;D That thing is beautiful! Big congrats!
 

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