What's Your Best Coin Find On Top Of The Ground

[mapper65]

Today was my first day out for 2011. I went with my mother and brother to an area in a local park that my mom and I had finished out 2010.

I had found two mercs that day and really felt like there was still some silver left. Today I started out with a small pocket spill containing 2 nickels and 1 penny, all from the early 60's. My next find was a 1943 merc! I found about 9 more coins over the next hour.

I headed over to another area about 100 yards away where there is a soccer practice field. I found a few quarters and one or two other coins. About 15 feet from where one of the soccer goals was located I came across what looked to be a coin. I swiped across it and got a good reading. I picked it up and it was a rosie. It looked at it closer and it was a 1946 silver rosie!! I'm a little stumped that it was laying on top of the ground in an area that during the summer, gets a lot of use. It was pretty wet in that area today so maybe that had something to do with it. Also, I noticed that it looked like someone else may have been digging near the field so I'm thinking that possibly someone had found it and maybe dropped it.

I went over to where my mother and brother were and said "I'm a little reluctant to tell you guys this because it almost sounds like a made up story?". My brother said that he had once found an indian on top of the ground and my mom reminded him of a time when they were detecting an old home site and he saw an old window frame on the ground with a penny sitting on it and it was an indian.

I had seen a guy's You Tube video where he found a V Nickel on top of the ground and I really thought that maybe he had planted in there before filming because it just seems so strange that he would find that in a public park. I think now I finally believe him.

I'm just curious if anyone else has found coins this way.

 

[Mtnmn]

Have never found any old coins on top of the ground yet, but am constantly amazed at how many modern day coins I find on top of the ground.

 

[digginLa]

I almost always find at least one penny on top of the ground, last time I was out I found a couple of pennies and a nickel, now if I could just find a bunch of dollar coins

 

[xwyokid]

About 6 years ago out in the wind blow desert I also found a V nickle right on the surface. It was a very sandy area and we figured the wind had a lot to do with it.

 

[Hard 2 Find]

A few years back I just bought my first metal detector and was at a fair grounds and hunting in front of the grandstand on a race track. The track was littered with metal and chrome parts and must have been used for a demoIition derby. I was using my X-Terra 50 and the 9" concentric coil. I got signal in the forty range and dug a bolt. While covering the hole I happen to look over about 18" to 24" from the hole and there laid a coin on top of the ground. When I picked up the coin it was a silver 1942 Washington quarter. This was my very first silver coin I had ever found while metal detecting. I would guess that the quarter some how came out of one of the cars used in the demolition derby. I would like to go back to that fair grounds some day with my X-Terra 705 and 6"DD coil which I just purchased in the last couple years.

H.H.

 

[fwcrawford]

I stopped at Advance Auto Store a couple of years ago to get some parts and saw a dime laying on the floor
whileI was waiting in line at the counter.
I went over and picked it up a stuck in my pocket.
Later I checked it out and it was a 1958 silver dime.
I figured with the economy, folks are starting to put their silver coins back into circulation.

 

[chuckciao]

A 1954 Rosie!

 

[fantomv]

i was detecting at a old homestead here in australia and all that was left was the foundations, the building was that old it must of had a dirt floor because it was very compacted and hard, on my first run i seen a round shape and thought that looks like a coin, then thought nah it cant be, but then my machine went off, i picked it up and there was a 1912 australian silver shilling it had been sunbaking in the middle of nowhere for over 90 years and was only a little faded, scrubbed it with a little bicarb and it came up like new