GMan00001
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- Dec 19, 2006
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- Garrett Ace 250
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sunday's slot machine hunt
This past Sunday my wife said I had the whole day to do whatever I wanted. Well sort of, I had already had plans to go metal detecting near my wife's grandfathers house for the day at a farmhouse built around 1912 that was in foreclosure and nobody had lived there for 2-3 years.
Unfortunately, the MD'ing at that house didn't produce much, just some recent clad, a few memorial pennies, a bent key, a couple of buckles, and a recent matchbox car. Note, the yard was really really trashy so it was hard to get good non-iron signals and almost every swing seemingly had at least 2-3 iron signals.
After a late lunch (around 5 pm) I decided I was going to try my luck at slot machine coin hunting since I was already over half way to the nearest non-coinless casino in my area. On the way to the casino I tried MD'ing at a small town baseball field for an hour or two. Did a little better there, but still only found recent stuff (mainly pennies). Still waiting for my first silver coin....oh well gotta keep trying.
There was actually 2 casinos on my route. The first one I had never been at, but had wanted to check out. It was quite small, but had nickels and quarters. Ran through $198 in quarters and found nothing. Though I thought I heard somebody say "I have a whole roll of silver, but the machine won't take silver." If I was sure who said it I would have asked what they meant. I am assuming it has to do with the $1 tokens and not quarters, but who knows.
After my brief stop there, I went to my main destination which was just up the road a bit. My goal was to search quarters and half dollars and bring some nickels home to search later.
My first $100 in quarters produced a 1964-D, so I was hopeful of a good night, but it was not to be. The halves were particularly stingy and I didn't find my first silver until after I had gone through $1200 worth.
All told for the night at the second casino I went through $2000 in halves and $2000 in quarters.
The halves produced 3 - 40% Kennedys. I don't remember the dates off hand.
The quarters produced 2 silver quarters (1947 and 1964-D) and 1 foreign quarter (East Caribbean States, 2004)
I date searched the halves, but only edge searched the quarters.
I did pick up $70 in nickels on the way out the door as well, but I haven't searched those yet. All-in-all a fun day, just wish the results were better.
This past Sunday my wife said I had the whole day to do whatever I wanted. Well sort of, I had already had plans to go metal detecting near my wife's grandfathers house for the day at a farmhouse built around 1912 that was in foreclosure and nobody had lived there for 2-3 years.
Unfortunately, the MD'ing at that house didn't produce much, just some recent clad, a few memorial pennies, a bent key, a couple of buckles, and a recent matchbox car. Note, the yard was really really trashy so it was hard to get good non-iron signals and almost every swing seemingly had at least 2-3 iron signals.
After a late lunch (around 5 pm) I decided I was going to try my luck at slot machine coin hunting since I was already over half way to the nearest non-coinless casino in my area. On the way to the casino I tried MD'ing at a small town baseball field for an hour or two. Did a little better there, but still only found recent stuff (mainly pennies). Still waiting for my first silver coin....oh well gotta keep trying.
There was actually 2 casinos on my route. The first one I had never been at, but had wanted to check out. It was quite small, but had nickels and quarters. Ran through $198 in quarters and found nothing. Though I thought I heard somebody say "I have a whole roll of silver, but the machine won't take silver." If I was sure who said it I would have asked what they meant. I am assuming it has to do with the $1 tokens and not quarters, but who knows.
After my brief stop there, I went to my main destination which was just up the road a bit. My goal was to search quarters and half dollars and bring some nickels home to search later.
My first $100 in quarters produced a 1964-D, so I was hopeful of a good night, but it was not to be. The halves were particularly stingy and I didn't find my first silver until after I had gone through $1200 worth.
All told for the night at the second casino I went through $2000 in halves and $2000 in quarters.
The halves produced 3 - 40% Kennedys. I don't remember the dates off hand.
The quarters produced 2 silver quarters (1947 and 1964-D) and 1 foreign quarter (East Caribbean States, 2004)
I date searched the halves, but only edge searched the quarters.
I did pick up $70 in nickels on the way out the door as well, but I haven't searched those yet. All-in-all a fun day, just wish the results were better.
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Perhaps there are casinos near where I'll be for business trips, etc. It'd certainly be easier than rerolling.
