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Fairground dissapointment......

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This past weekend I did a fairground in Maine. Not a major fair by any means. I was worried that it has been hit hard considering the fact that permission was quite easy to come by. This fair has been held for approx. the last 135 years. In the six hours I was there I found 79 coins, 59 pennies, 11 dimes and 9 quarters. Only one silver, a 47 dime and 6 wheaties the oldest being 1910 after that a 44.' Most of the other coins were in the 60s and 70s.
Don't you think a site being that old would have given up some older coins? Or more of them. Then I thought maybe the fair wasn't always held at this spot. But I have had two lengthy conversations with two old timers that work there and nothing about an earlier location ever came up.
I'll probably go back in a week or so. I also recently received permission at a county fair ground.......... any fair ground tips would be appreciated.
 
Rich, if you just keep (pounding it) you will probably do like John, and find enough to fill a deposit bag.Dont give up, and keep going back.Make sure to mark this day, and show us all the goodies you have found from there since.
 
Well speaking as a Mainer....if there was a fairground...it has been hunted. Alot of the fairgrounds were hammered years ago and alot of the silver pulled out. Since those days many have been left alone so the clad has been redeposited...but obviously not the silver.
there are alot of hardcore detectorists here and there were aeven more so back in the 80's. So I would say that for sure the fair you were at was hit hard many years ago...these guys up here have hunted evry single fair ground at some point.
I hunted the Acton fair grounds years ago....tons of clad...almost no silver.
Scott
 
I agree, but if more than twenty of the coins I found date at 7 before 1950 the others in the 50s and 60s tells me if they missed those they must have missed others.
 
...my point was rather that the lack of many silver coins is due to it being detected before. remember that back in the 70's and 80's alot of guys dug silver only...that is fact. i know many old timers who cherry picked silver only. they ignored pennies and nickels as the silver was plentiful......back then.
this why you can go back in to places and find many nickels....indian heads and wheats in areas thatw ere hit hard in the past. hey if I were back then i would be a silver slammer also.
I also know alot of guys who come up Maine looking for places to hunt that have not been hunted...and i can say if it was on a map...it has been hunted before...this includes all known fairgrounds..cemeteries....and so on. So by all means hit it again and again...but also understand it was hunted before so you may not get the silver count you would expect....but...it is most definately still there.
Scott
 
Hi Rich
Near where I lived was the county fairgrounds. Every year during the county fair the carnival people would come and set up their rides and such at the same spot every year. As a teenager I used to head for the penny arcade tent with my friends to shoot the rifles. I quickly realized that they set up the penny arcade site in the same location year after year. So for one entire summer I detected this one penny arcade spot. Although, the area was no larger than a house foundation,it yielded thousands of silver coins(no clad as it was 40 years ago).I also remember finding the remains of two complete rolls of silver dimes which had been lost in the sawdust behind the concessionaires stand( From the dates I believe both were dropped circa 1957).
You need to find if a similar situation exists at your fair site. Did the old timers as teenagers(like me) go to a penny arcade site and where is it? Of course the site has been hammered to death- BUT these sites(I hunted other fairgrounds 40 years ago also) had absolutely incredible amounts of trash. Using a BFO I dug everything and multiple trash and coins would be in every hole. These sites still should have incredible iron/junk masking of coins.
If I could locate an old penny arcade site today- I would dig everything- remove the mask and see what a couple of hundred of earlier detectorists have missed.
George
 
One has to remember that the detector was invented in 1932 and has been around in numbers since the early sixties. Many of these so-called old sites were heavily hit over the past 40 years. The first detectors had no discrimination so the user had to dig every signal and they did.
Most of the silver I have stashed away was pulled up in the 60's, 70's, and 80's, including twelve silver dollars. A friend of mine who owned D&K s Detectors here in the seventies had a milk crate brim full of silver coins pulled out of the local parks and other sites here in Portland. In his display case he had several silver dollars and a few gold coins pulled from the same sites.
So no matter how old the site it has most likely been hit many times over the past 40-50 years so you'll have to look hard to find any goodies they missed.
Bill
 
That's 79 more coins than you had, and 79 less clad crap to deal with in the future, no offense to clad, LOL. I'm not much of coin guy anymore, but I've never dug that many coins in one day. If you dig half of that once a week for a year you'd probably be a 1000 dollars richer.
 
Yeah George, on these sites one should hunt in all metal and dig every target to get what coins that may still be there masked by junk. The penny pitch sites are great as is the sites where they pitched slugs or coins into crystal plates to win a prize. Also where the side shows were erected, the popcorn, frozen custard, and cotton candy stands.
I once hunted around an old concession stand and found little until I took notice of the large wooden platform right in front of the stand with boards spaced wide enough for coins to drop through. It was very heavy but I was tough enough then to stand it up and lean it against the stand. Many of the coins were laying right on top of the ground. Can't recall but think I pulled a couple of hundred coins out of that spot. No detectorist before me had the insight or balls to move that platform so lost out on a bonanza.
Hunted around another concession stand and found little but no one else had hunted under it. Found a pile there also.
Dug up a flattened-out beer can one time that was full of probe holes. No one had bothered to dig it up and missed the roll of quarters that lay beneath it.
Bill
 
That was my next question..why are there so many pennies.....did they throw them back?....I guess they did....makes sense.........thanks
 
a couple of weeks a go, thought of hitting it this summer, I'll leave it alone now, to far a drive , there are plenty of sites up here, trying to get permission for two big farms up here, well I got permission, waiting for the fall and the tics to die down <img src="/metal/html/frown.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":("> what about farms up here have they been hit hard too thanks steve
 
Where are you from Scott? Myself From Saco. Not A Garrett user but that dont matter.
TTYL
Marc
 
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