Morning hunt, 173 coins, 1 keeper

Boobydoo

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Apr 24, 2006
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Hello to all!

I managed a shorter hunt this morning. I slept in a little and then cut it short when the heat kicked in. Three hours hunt time today.

I hit the last elementary school in the district that has the rubber mats under the big play stuctures. It still had a few sets of swings and some twirly bars that had woodchips similar to the other two schools I hit a couple weekends ago during the contest hunts. One good thing was they tore out a set of monkey bars that were in woodchips and scraped the woodchips into a pile. I found a lot of coins and stuff there. In 20 or so minutes I probably got 40 or 50 coins out of there plus my only keeper, a sterling ring. A very tiny childs ring with a fake diamond. It looks pretty vintage and is barely holding together. Other then that, no keepers.

I also went to new district close to this one and discovered they had pea gravel at their schools so I moved on. I never have much luck making good finds in pea gravel. I headed towards home and stopped by a school I covered last summer and picked up some more coins and trinkets, no more keepers.

So the totals were, 3 hours hunt time, 173 coins for a face value of $11.73. The one keepers silver ring, 2 mood rings, a bunch of other trinket jewelry, and 3 Chuck E Cheese tokens and a local casino token.

Thanks for reading and best of luck to you all. Here's a couple of photos of today's finds.

Smiles!
BDoo
 

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piggman1 said:
Quite a haul there and congrats on the ring. I don't hunt pea gravel either. It seems people don't loose as much because they can see it. Way to go on all the coins in the piled up wood chips!

Thanks PM!! I know to cross all the schools off the list in that district as I have seen most times, when one school has a certain playground covering, woodchips or pea gravel, etc, all the schools usually have the same. Best of luck to you!

Smiles!
Bdoo
 

Jack(IN) said:
Great day and congrats on the silver!!

Thanks Jack, it wasn't much, but I'll take it! It's always nice to have at least one "keeper". Keeps us coming back huh!

Smiles!
BDoo
 

steve m said:
Nice count for 3 hours detecting. Way to go!!

It was a good day keeping me busy with lots of finds! Thanks for the read and comment Steve!

Smiles!
BDoo
 

M-Squared said:
You certainly can sift the good stuff out of those woodchips!

Great haul!

Now that your out of elementary schools, what is your next game plan?

HH from M2

lol, well, there's always hitting the ones I went to last year again this year. But I think I can manage to find a few more to keep me busy the rest of the summer. With all the great finds from soccer fields posted lately, I am going to hit some of them this fall when the ground softens up a bit and the grass won't die because of the dug holes. Some nice jewelry being found.

Thanks for all the nice comments M2!!

Smiles!
BDoo
 

Sheldius said:
Another good day. Congrats. Sorry you only got one ring. ;)
I'm going to hit the park were they held the 4th fireworks. Usually people standing around for 4 to 5 blocks back. Hope to find more than 100 in clad.

HH.

Well, I hope you had some good luck out there. I used to clean up our beach assn after the annual 4th of July neighborhood party back at my old place and just in eye finds, I used to make out really good. One year I found a wad of cash along the road where everyone would park, there was $260 , 2 $100's and 3 20's. It was a tough job, but I got by ;D

Thanks for the read and comment my friend!

Smiles!
BDoo
 

ModernMiner said:
BDoo,
Awesome haul. Congrats on the silver. 173 coins in 3 hours beats my one 1920 wheat in 6 hours today. :'( ;D
Three Chuck-E-Cheese tokens in one day is unheard of. ;D
Way to go,
MM

And they weren't even a Chuckie Cheese coin cache either...lol, three coins found in different areas. I think that makes about 10 for the year plus maybe 10 more other archade tokens too. Thanks for the visit and support!

Smiles!
BDoo
 

Nice finds and lunch money.

In locations like that I find that along the edges of rubber mat very productive.

HH
 

Boobydoo said:
Well, I hope you had some good luck out there. I used to clean up our beach assn after the annual 4th of July neighborhood party back at my old place and just in eye finds, I used to make out really good. One year I found a wad of cash along the road where everyone would park, there was $260 , 2 $100's and 3 20's. It was a tough job, but I got by ;D

That's a great haul! I was rained out this morning, and now the heat is here. Not sure when/if I'll get to it.

HH
 

Bummer, yep it's hot here also. 97 today...uggg.
I got ouit yesterday morning early and had some great finds but haven't cleaned and photographed them yet.

Thanks again, I hope you can get out there buddy!

Smiles!
BDoo
 

great coin count there sir !!! lots of goodies and a keeper,,, that's a great day out...... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
 

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