Natman
Bronze Member
- Jan 8, 2007
- 2,487
- 461
- 🏆 Honorable Mentions:
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- Detector(s) used
- White's Prizm II, White's Coinmaster
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
Hi all,
Today was an awesome day for me..the weather was beautiful and I wanted to go out and swing the coil, so I spent the whole morning enjoying the great outdoors.
The other day I happened to be looking at my totals and thought, "Man, I'm pretty close to reaching my 18-month goal of finding a thousand dollars." Then I actually added up my dollar totals from the last 16 months, and found I only needed $11.17 to get there!
My main problem was trying to find out where to go..I've covered every elementary school and sports park within 3 school districts, and I didn't want to make any long road trips that would eat into my gas money. I got on the internet and checked one more school I hadn't been to (in yet another district) which was about 10 miles away.
When I got there I found a large wood chip area in back which was loaded with pennies and dimes, especially under one of the play structures. Then later, just as I bent down to dig a pull tab signal, I actually said aloud, "You'd think there'd be at least ONE ring in here with all this change." As luck would have it, the signal turned out to be a pretty silver ring with a peacock design. It's kind of light and is probably not real silver, but it was nice to find all the same.
I tried the field, but apparently the grass was planted over alot of gravel, so despite the rain we've had, the ground was impossible to dig into.
On the way home I stopped at another school that I had been to last month, and was surprised to find a load of pennies in the wood chips beneath one of the swings, a few dimes and a live .32 cartridge
I got home and counted out my change, only to find I was still $4 short of my goal. I took out the phone book and looked at a list of schools I had been to many times before, trying to decide which of them may still hold a bit more change. I made the right choice, but finding the extra $4 probably took an hour and a half at this particular school. I did manage a SBA dollar at the far end of the field which helped.
The last $1.20 was tough..however I was so determined to find it I didn't care if I was going to get it one penny at a time. When I was within 30 cents of the big 1K, I called my wife and let her know I'd call when it happened.
I found a dime, then some pennies, then another dime..finally my last coin (which was a quarter) put me at $1000.29, all in 16 months of detecting. If it weren't for keeping records of what I found, I would never have thought it amounted to that much. I called my wife again and she already knew I had attained my goal. Boy did it feel good!
Here's today's finds, which ended up being 116 pennies, 12 nickels, 32 dimes, 22 quarters and a SBA dollar. Most of the pennies were found in the chips so I didn't have to clean very many of them
I also found a few keys, a 50-gram weight, an earring, a magnet, a few pendants, and something pretty incredible - a redline Hot Wheels Custom Camaro, which happens to be the very first Hot Wheels vehicle Mattel ever produced back in 1967. I was amazed to see it was in one piece, and still had all 4 red striped tires, its hood, and most of its bright spectraflame paint! A mint example of this model has a collector value of $225.00. This car is my favorite find so far this year and I couldn't have found it on a better day!
Thanks for looking and hope your weekend is as good as mine was!
HH,
Nat
Today was an awesome day for me..the weather was beautiful and I wanted to go out and swing the coil, so I spent the whole morning enjoying the great outdoors.
The other day I happened to be looking at my totals and thought, "Man, I'm pretty close to reaching my 18-month goal of finding a thousand dollars." Then I actually added up my dollar totals from the last 16 months, and found I only needed $11.17 to get there!
My main problem was trying to find out where to go..I've covered every elementary school and sports park within 3 school districts, and I didn't want to make any long road trips that would eat into my gas money. I got on the internet and checked one more school I hadn't been to (in yet another district) which was about 10 miles away.
When I got there I found a large wood chip area in back which was loaded with pennies and dimes, especially under one of the play structures. Then later, just as I bent down to dig a pull tab signal, I actually said aloud, "You'd think there'd be at least ONE ring in here with all this change." As luck would have it, the signal turned out to be a pretty silver ring with a peacock design. It's kind of light and is probably not real silver, but it was nice to find all the same.
I tried the field, but apparently the grass was planted over alot of gravel, so despite the rain we've had, the ground was impossible to dig into.
On the way home I stopped at another school that I had been to last month, and was surprised to find a load of pennies in the wood chips beneath one of the swings, a few dimes and a live .32 cartridge
I got home and counted out my change, only to find I was still $4 short of my goal. I took out the phone book and looked at a list of schools I had been to many times before, trying to decide which of them may still hold a bit more change. I made the right choice, but finding the extra $4 probably took an hour and a half at this particular school. I did manage a SBA dollar at the far end of the field which helped.
The last $1.20 was tough..however I was so determined to find it I didn't care if I was going to get it one penny at a time. When I was within 30 cents of the big 1K, I called my wife and let her know I'd call when it happened.
I found a dime, then some pennies, then another dime..finally my last coin (which was a quarter) put me at $1000.29, all in 16 months of detecting. If it weren't for keeping records of what I found, I would never have thought it amounted to that much. I called my wife again and she already knew I had attained my goal. Boy did it feel good!
Here's today's finds, which ended up being 116 pennies, 12 nickels, 32 dimes, 22 quarters and a SBA dollar. Most of the pennies were found in the chips so I didn't have to clean very many of them
I also found a few keys, a 50-gram weight, an earring, a magnet, a few pendants, and something pretty incredible - a redline Hot Wheels Custom Camaro, which happens to be the very first Hot Wheels vehicle Mattel ever produced back in 1967. I was amazed to see it was in one piece, and still had all 4 red striped tires, its hood, and most of its bright spectraflame paint! A mint example of this model has a collector value of $225.00. This car is my favorite find so far this year and I couldn't have found it on a better day!
Thanks for looking and hope your weekend is as good as mine was!
HH,
Nat
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Thanks for correcting....At least my math was correct(for 18 mnths)....Now I just need to remember what I read.... 
