What do you NORMALLY find when you go metal detecting???

[bountyhunterII]

You gotta be very lucky in order for you to usually find anything but coins.Plz Vote!!!!!

 

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[JakePhelps]

Re: What do you USUALLY find when you go metal detecting

Old historic relics. But at the beach fishin lures, coins, and jewelry.

 

[hollowpointred]

usually 2 or 3 bucks in clad and a lot of shredded beer cans and pull tabs! every so often though a gem will come out of the ground,like a silver coin or a piece of jewelry.

 

[gregl01]

Hi all, right now I have been hunting woodchip playgrounds because our ground is like concrete So I normally find modern clad coinage and maybe a piece of odd jewelry now and then. Come fall and then spring I can hunt old cellar holes and such to find the really old goodies!!!!
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Greg

 

[wayne_etc]

Skeeter bites, chiggers, sunburn, anthills, nosey kids, pulltabs, screwcaps, canslaw, whatzits, rusty nails, dirty knees, and the goodies - coins, silver, and rings (oh my).


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[Monty]

I selected coins , jewelry and gold. Maybe the gold I am talkiing about and the jewelry are the same thing? So far I have found about 20 lb of clad coins, a gold chain necklace, 5 rings some plated and two real ones, a couple of pendants or broches, a watch and watch parts (thanks to lawnmowers), a couple of locks, one silver dime, a silver "nugget", several wheat pennies, and a partridge in a.....well, lots of other "stuff" that are treasures only unto me! That's one of the things that attracts me and intrigues me about MDing, you just never know what you will find. I seldom just coin shoot, but they are always there in abundance it seems so I go ahead and dig them up. I don't treasure hunt or cache hkunt but I know some of the places I hunt have potential. If I find them good but if I don't I'll live to detect another day. JIM

 

[stoney56]

History. It may be yesterday's pulltab, last week's ring, last year's clad, a 50 year old silver coin, or a 100 year old toy. I may throw away the pulltab, spend the clad, give the ring as a gift, sell the silver, or pass down the toy. But in the end, I normally find a lifetime of memories.

 

[Visionquest]

Stupid bobby pins. In the lake water, there are always dozens of them and I find them all, lucky me. By far they outnumber everything else I dig combined.

 

[wmas1960]

I usually find coins.? Mostly modern.? Right now my average from all times out is about $1.23 per trip.? My best was, $3.32 my worst was .11.? ? I have also found a token that I don't know what it is from, a few foriegn coins, a Buffalo Nickel and about half a dozen Wheat Pennies.? ?

From there, it largely depends on where I am searching.? On the local public beach, I find a lot of beer bottle caps and a good amount of pull tabs, wire, foil and other assorted junk.?

If I am searching a school yard, I have been finding zipper pulls from jackets and a couple days ago, found the ends of some broken pencils.? The eraser ends, of course.? I also seem to find a few paper clips on the Tot Lots, near the schools.? ?On the Park District lots, the ones away from schools, I would say almost all coins.? ?Although, I have found a couple diecast cars, a ring and a hand cuff key.? The ring was hand modeled and cast out of, I think, bronze.? On another Park Tot Lot, I found a cap for a fuse holder.? ?Don't usually find the bottle caps and pull tabs on the school or park tot lots, although I have found a couple.? Incidentally, all my foriegn coins and the odd token, have come from school or park Tot Lots.? ? I suspect nannies have lost the coins or they might have been souvenirs that parents gave their children from a trip...? Maybe a show and tell piece.? None have been of particular value. 5 Centimes (French) and 1 Deutsche Mark (German). I don't know what the value of the Deutsche Mark would have been but someone told me that the 5 Centimes would have been about a penny before the money became obsolete for the Euro. I would guess that the Mark is probably the same.

 

[hexwrench]

Been at this about a month. Mostly local parks. Finding a lot of corroded clad coins. A couple of cast metal toy cars. a Knotts Berry Farm token, a shiny Mexican Peso. No wheats, IHs, or silver so far. Of course, the usual bottle caps, pull tabs, nuts, washers, etc.

Went to one old park about 100 miles from here, where there is still some silver to be found. But the guys I met there had better equipment and were digging up good stuff. Meanwhile, my batteries died and my backup batteries were also near dead. Haven't been able to get back there since. That trip taught me a lot about being prepared...

Not that many old sites here in So. Calif. that haven't been hit pretty hard. So I don't expect to find a lot of silver in the readily accessible parks. Just about all the schools around are fenced and locked so haven't gotten to check them out at all.

- Bill

 

[vic910]

Nails. I almost always find nails. That's it, just nails.

vicki

 

[Nana40]

Finds at my house......bullets.....horse shoes.....nails.....oh....and I did find an old hub cap!

At the river.........modern coins.....pull tabs......fishing weights.........and a wheat penny!

At the old Dr.s house........part of an old pot.....buckles.....nails......part of a stove......just lots a iron.


Ya know.....my family might be right.....I must be crazy! But gosh this is fun......