My own smaller milestone.

[cwilk]

I hit 10,000 coins lifetime with Garrett machines earlier this year and I did it in 51 weeks as I recall. Today I hit 10,000 coins in calendar 2008 and I started March 2. Seven months. I stopped today on 10,001 coins. That is because that 1/4 Eagle Gold Coin in Bezel I found earlier this year could be considered a coin or it could be considered jewelry. I am putting 10,000 in my book. It's a 1995 US Quarter. I was going to wait until my birthday which is later this week but as the market sank lower and lower I had to get out of the house. $5.62 total which is about 20 grand less than my brokerage account dropped.

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Also found was a small silver chain broken into 4 pieces. I managed to retrieve 19 1/4 inches of it. It was such a strong signal I kept thinking there had to be a pendant someplace nearby. There wasn't. I used True All Metal to get it all.

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Chris

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

Lots of clad and a good siver chain...To bad its broken..

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

Congratulations on hitting the milestone Chris. I'd love to be able to do that, but I don't have the population around me to generate that much coin. Population here is 39 000 and it's a 100 miles to the nearest town that has a population near that.:sad: Sometimes I wish that I still lived in Sydney.
On the up side, we have plenty of $1 and $2 coins. So it's not all bad.
Mick Evans.

 

[lazyaussie]

WOW 10,000 coin is a lot congrat"s . i dont think i"ll ever dig that many.

 

[Yaridnac]

Congratulations on your milestone, keep it up bud. Good luck in the next hunt!!!​

 

[Bernie]

Congrats on the milestone! As with Mick, we also have a small population in Vermont and not many places where there are lots of coins. The only good news is that many of the finds are older stuff.

 

[cwilk]

I always group you Australians together in my mind and I always think to myself that you guys find a lot of coins and a lot of jewelry. My coin spots are getting pretty far away from home now. My best sites are a half hours drive now instead of right down the road. The closer sites still produce but are a lot more steps in between finds.

Yesterday some idiot had his picture on the front page of business section of the local paper with one of the better local old coin sites identified. The gist was that one could use metal detecting to escape many of their financial troubles. Pretty irresposible, I think. Anyway, it is a heavily hunted site but there is still plenty to find. He scored three silver coins (better than I ever did there) that day and a very old copper a few weeks before. I am a fan of promoting the hobby but I think it's crazy put it into everbodies head that there is tons of buried silver around. All it could lead to is more detectors. More holes left behind by novice diggers. More trouble later for us respectful detectors. Maybe I'm out of line here but that is my gut reaction. And yes, I do want it all for myself!

All that said I am certain this is the first and last 10,000 coin year of my career until I move to newer and more virgin hunting grounds. I figure when 2008 closes out I'll be around 8k from 25k lifetime. Even that is going to be hard to do in one year unless I get 4 or 5 fresh hot spots.

Once more for all you guys who hate these types of goals. I love that part of the hobby. I like tracking all sorts of hobby related statistics. It definitely motivates me. My average number of coins per hunt so far this year is 67.574. Total number of hours hunted 387.25. That with my total number of coins, 10,001, yields all sorts of interesting data. Interesting to me that is.

Chris

 

[GOLD&OLDIES]

That is ALOT of coins Chris, congrats on your milestone!! H.H. Kevin