Playgrounds or Fields?

[Justadad1999]

When at a "Park", do you hunt the open field areas soccer, baseball, volleyball etc OR only the playground area itself? If the fields, then what determines exactly where you begin hunting?

thanks and great diggin!!

 

[FrankG]

Personally, I like to hunt them all... generally speaking I seem to pull a lot of coins from around picnic tables, near snack stands, bleachers and in the kids playground. The obvious places where people gather.

I seem to have my best luck in fields where they play soccer. The fields seem to be relatively free of trash and I find a lot of unusual (but so far, inexpensive) things there (odd jewelery, medals, pins, various arcade tokens, trinkets, dog collar tags and licenses, and even some strange foreign coins). When hunting around town, I just wander the fields un-methodically and have fun (griding is too much like work). I find that by searching randomly I always miss stuff and always know when I go back there's plenty more. It seems like the stuff keeps coming no matter how many times I go back. If you're working an athletic field and you hit upon a coin or treasure, pay a little more attention to the immediate area. It's not that uncommon to find multiple things in a hole. Don't overlook dirt parking areas and pathways that are used.

Don't get me wrong, there are a few fields and playgrounds where I've been skunked and unless It's a real lazy day I like to dig everything. Every piece of trash I take out is something I (or someone else) won't have to deal with on the next visit.

What's nice about many of the kids playgrounds is that they are often covered with wood chips or pine needles and the digging just seems easier. Lots of stuff is right under the top layer hidden in plain sight.

Happy Hunting!

 

[Neil in West Jersey]

I found the medallion in the middle of an old football field. Some dude probably lost it while being tackled. I guess it could have happened on the playground too, but I would guess more silver & gold would be on the playing filed as well as the sidelines where people are sitting on the grass.

Kids on the playground lose change, but they usually dont have the bling.

 

[Uncle Willy]

I'm with FRank, hunt it all. Along the edges of the fields are good spots and the fields themselves are good for rings and jewelry. In front of and in back of goal posts are another spot.

Bill

 

[John-Edmonton]

n/t

 

[Skillet]

The grass near the parking area is good too, people lose change when they pull out their car keys.

Jewelry is anyone's guess. Could be anywhere and everywhere. I prefer to look for jewelry away from the pulltabs when I can i.e. open ground away from picnic tables and such.

Skillet

 

[John D.]

Always check around trees, I have found enough coins this month to fill a International coffee can 1/2 full just this month and most were found near trees. I also watch where people usually walk, if you look carefully you can see paths in a park. By the way I am a fairly newbie, however I am near the 800 mark for coins in just 8 months.

 

[Uncle Willy]

Trees are a great spot and the older the better. A few gold coins have been found in this area at the base of older trees. Some years back I pulled up three Barber coins from under a tree root of an old tree.

Bill

 

[John D.]

Way back in the 60s, I had an old WWII mine detector and was looking in a depression in the ground and found enough minnie balls to fill a quart canning jar 1/2 full. The old man who owned the farm told me that according to his father there had been a tree in that field and Stonewall Jacksons' troops had used it for target practice. Now that I have a good detector, I always look around trees and depressions in the ground, it always pays off.

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah I once hunted a local park from end toend and didn't find squat. As I was leaving I saw this giant oak tree over at the far corner of the park with one picnic table under it. I thought to myself, " There's where the coins are."

Sure enough, I pulled over five dollars from under and around that tree. No one else had bothered to hunt there.

Bill