mapper65
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I've had days where I've found more coins than this but today I set a new personal record for the most quarters in one day.
We went to a local recreation area that we had been given permission to hunt. My Mom had already been there a few times and had a nice couple of hauls, mainly quarters and dimes.
I started out the day finding a small handful of pennies and I was really hoping that I would start stumbling onto something better. All of the sudden I started finding quarter after quarter after quarter in an area about 24' x 60'. Our neighbor that got us permission to hunt this location told us to pay close attention to this one certain area where he knew of a few kids party sawdust coin piles which is in a grassy area off of a pavilion that people gather in. I'm pretty sure we found the footprint where the sawdusty piles may have been but even outside of that area it was like it rained coins. I'd probably say that less than half of my coins came from the area we think they had the sawdust piles. My coin holder which is typically bigger than i need for a whole day of detecting was nearly full to the top. At one point I really thought that I had found a roll of quarters but waited until I got home to see what I had.
I found 117 coins, 17 coins shy of my daily record. I found 34 quarters which is a new daily record for me, 36 dimes, 2 nickels and 45 pennies. My Mom also did very well with couple dollars in quarters a boat load of dimes and a small handful of pennies. We were both using the 6" Coiltek coil.
Not sure how well I'll be able to walk tomorrow but at least I can sit back and enjoy my haul. It was a good day!
We went to a local recreation area that we had been given permission to hunt. My Mom had already been there a few times and had a nice couple of hauls, mainly quarters and dimes.
I started out the day finding a small handful of pennies and I was really hoping that I would start stumbling onto something better. All of the sudden I started finding quarter after quarter after quarter in an area about 24' x 60'. Our neighbor that got us permission to hunt this location told us to pay close attention to this one certain area where he knew of a few kids party sawdust coin piles which is in a grassy area off of a pavilion that people gather in. I'm pretty sure we found the footprint where the sawdusty piles may have been but even outside of that area it was like it rained coins. I'd probably say that less than half of my coins came from the area we think they had the sawdust piles. My coin holder which is typically bigger than i need for a whole day of detecting was nearly full to the top. At one point I really thought that I had found a roll of quarters but waited until I got home to see what I had.
I found 117 coins, 17 coins shy of my daily record. I found 34 quarters which is a new daily record for me, 36 dimes, 2 nickels and 45 pennies. My Mom also did very well with couple dollars in quarters a boat load of dimes and a small handful of pennies. We were both using the 6" Coiltek coil.
Not sure how well I'll be able to walk tomorrow but at least I can sit back and enjoy my haul. It was a good day!