Picture of yesterday's finds

[Pete in MI]

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The dimes were within a foot of each other. I almost walked away from the second one but decided to rescan the area.

I am curious. How many people find a coin then after checking the hole a second time (or more when finding more coins in the same hole)...how many sweep the coil in a circle around where you are standing? What I am thinking is sometimes kids might be fighting. If I find a coin or two in one spot, maybe they were rolling around and losing some more a few feet from the coin(s) just found. Or maybe someone is sitting on a blanket, rolls off the blanket and loses a few more coins. Of course where a blanket was when it is picked up there may be coins dropped...some may be just a few feet further away...so I always check in a circle around where I am standing just in case other coins are nearby.

For those interested the photo program I use is IrfanView. It is a free and easy program and as you see I can add text to the photos so I have a record of the finds and the dates of the items found.

 

[dobbie]

my hubby and i always resweep the areas. yesterday he found 3 quarters within the same area. its a good idea to always recheck then recheck again just to make sure.hh

 

[Graw]

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[Mike from MI "Iron Brigade"]

I check the whole area after making a find!

 

[treasurefiend]

Here is a youtube video where the man didn't recheck the hole and misses some silver. He noticed it when he got home and watched the video, may this be a lesson to us all. Its about the 4:34 mark is when it starts. He even edited it into the video.


http://youtube.com/watch?v=GRf-KvXNuuE

 

[Anonymous]

Glad you could get out Pete and congrats on the coins found! I am sure you had a nice day getting out And yes I always checked around and around, fprward amd baclward whenever I found a coin! I have found lots more when doing this! My joy is finding quarters in the same hole, especially silver ones, but they are very scarce now!

One time I was in a park with my friend, Sally, and under a tree I started finding coins! I searched and searched all around that tree and until I couldn't find anymore! I told my friend about it and she went over to find what I had left (she knew how to hunt very well) but I didn't leave any unless they were very deep! She didn't find not one coin! :lol;

I hope you and dobbie best of luck and God's blessings in getting out and finding more coins and goodies!

God Bless!
Betty

 

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[Philo_NY]

Pete

Mike... in this sport that is the million dollar question....LOL. In my opinion, there are so many case scenarios why and how coins are lost, First, every park and location is different in respect to what type of environment is present at the park, or location... eg; woods, lawns, picnic area, hills, grading, trails, ridges, erosion qualities, and of course how old the park is and the so important question, has it been developed or was dumped upon by developers and people who lived there. We hit an area where old building were being dumped in the park, and many different types of treasure would show up... from relics, to coins. I know for a fact that coins that were lost in a home would roll to the end of a room, and if there were no moldings, which in the older homes were not used to ventilate the homes, the coins would Lodge themselves in the ceilings, and when the building was torn down, all the debris and coins were dumped together either at the garbage dump for these type of materials, or illegally dumped in Parks and other locations. I did demolition work on buildings in East Harlem, and we were removing the ceilings, and would hear the silver hitting the poles as they came down. I got many 1800's coins especially barbers from the three buildings were preparing for renovation. I also noticed that upon removing the moldings along the walls, that there were these gaps of about 2 inches before the moldings were put in, these are the venting slots along the floors I was talking about which existed in buildings built in the 1800's.

I've been hunting since 1976, and I can tell you in my opinion of course is that in wooded areas, coins are lost for a few reasons. The woods are used constantly for humans to relieve themselves, so I deduct that all those coins that we find along side trees and bushes got there because someone pulled their pants, or removed their jackets, both men and women, and of course the children. There is another more adult reason, but, I will not go there, but, it's a very good reason couple had lost coins, keys, jewelry... etc, while rolling around in a grassy area or up against a tree or in patch where there were bushes. I know when we used to play hooky from school, we would throw pennies at each other, and there were times when someone ran out of pennies and threw nickels, or dimes, and remember that if this was happening in 1964 and before, they were silver coins, and the pennies could be either as the memorial penny came into our currency in 1959.

When we find coins in honey holes, that was because lying down his or her coins spilled out especially if they had those short pockets. Kids fighting like you said, and rolling down a hill or slope. I remember losing my coins when I had produced holes in pockets from sharp objects, pencils, pens, pen knifes. I know of a few of my friends that used to dig holes and hide their coins in parks and back yards, and then could not find the exact place where they had buried the coins., and depending on how old an area is and how much
activity that area had in the past, there have been coins and paper money, along with jewelry were plentiful in the early 60's. If you can find the old Fair Grounds that used in yesteryear, you'll have found Silver-rado and then some.

These days your lucky if you find a Silver-ado like I did last year, a spot that produced more that 700 silver coins between me and another hunting buddy. Those that hunted the beaches and parks in the 60's and 70's made out very well, and there are still areas that have not been touched by a detector, it's a matter of finding them and working them well. Lastly, remember that coins are in veering depths and that each year each area coins float up and down the soil according to air pressure and other reactions in the soil, especially erosion, so get out there and work your areas with a large coil, especially a WOT coil and get those deepies.... God bless you all...



Philo_NY

This old plate was dug in an area that was used as an illegal dump. I believe that it came from a print shop from either lower Manhatten or City Island, which is right over the bridge near where it was found. It's a plate for a commercial for a National Ladies Home Journal special stiching instructions to sew a jacket, circa... 1920's as I looked up the many styles of the time. It's made of lead and heavy, by the way a 19 23 merc. was found not far from the plate. It's reversed of course...

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[Magyar]

Pete..great finds.

Interesting that you asked about returning /rechecking an area where one finds coins.

Just yesterday, after I found that Sacagawea next to a tree stump, I was distracted ( 2 children enraptured in my detecting and finding coins) , I just continued walking; then I thought "I wonder if there are any more coins near that tree stump..turned around and went back to circle detect the area .and found a nickel and then a dime...; also at one spot, I cut the "1/2 moon " of sod out, and found a penny in the hole, and just as I was about to replace the sod, I see a dime staring at me in the tight dirt at the bottom of the sod!! You never know..how true...

 

[Pete in MI]

had been hidden in sand piles for the kids to find. What a great place to detect eh? Too bad the State Archeologist and the county let the property be used....to put the Lansing automobile plant on top of the dirt...and now the plant is being demolished. I don't know if all that cement is going to be removed...question is where did all the dirt go...guessing when they built the plant some of it was scraped off and moved elsewhere.
Oh well I don't live in Lansing any more.

You made some very good points Phil...good to hear from you...neat stamp you got there.

 

[dobbie]

watching that video makes me want to say HEY LOOK. his hand was right on it...thats rough.....

 

[rentasquid]

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