Metal detector finds

Drove by some fields. Still extremely muddy.
Maybe this week, go to the spot I found a skeleton key.

 

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Since it was found in a certain spot, I'm thinking it was to a front door. Here it is again.

 

Fun updates for me. Gold. Misc silver not rings or chains. Dol coins. And then NIFCs 2003-P, Sequoyah, Native Hospitality and American Innovators. As well as the Ikes and a gold plated SBA. I have a couple other Native American dollars but they are the first issue and they circulated.

 

That is incredible - where are you detecting that you find so many small dollars? Car wash parking lots?

 

A decent number from parks (playgrounds) I don't dig up the ground because it is like cement here, and then you have to replace it, and all of the ground has been detected to death out here. And the majority from elementary school playgrounds which (95% or so) always used to be open on the weekends so the neighborhood people could use the fields, walk dogs, basketball courts, playground etc. But now they are all locked up like jails with doors and fences and chains and gates. (A few are open, but there used to be around 60 or more.) I think they are afraid of school shootings? So they are using my tax money to lock me out and I don't even get to vote on it. Sure sounds like democracy to me. Plus, the grounds are not private property. Whatever. I would generally go on Sunday mornings nice and quiet. Before the pandemic I had a whole schedule worked out 8 or 9 areas for schools (most in town, and 2 of then close by out of town) and 4 or 5 park lineups, so I would do the parks on Sat the schools on Sunday (after that I would do parks one week and then schools the next week) and then after about 13 weeks or so it gives everything a time to refill and I do the schedule again. It worked out great for a while. The pandemic ruined everything. The town is VERY spread out, so I would go to one section and do 8 schools or so there. NE, NW, SW, SE, Local, WS north, Rio Rancho, Los Lunas, Santa Fe, and then there are millions of parks here, so the same deal. You may not think elementary schools are good for finds, but I got plenty of silver rings (gold) also. You have 300 kids hanging upside down on the monkey bars for a few months, etc. Under the swings also good. And then they are always going in and taking out the GOOD MD equipment and putting in safe junk. Plus there's not as much litter as in the parks, and tons of regular money. It's called hunting clads, or I call it modern day treasure hunting. When you go out in a field for 2 hours you come back with one environmentally damaged wheatie. Well I am bring back 100 finds. I've still pulled some silver coins anyway. 3 nickels 5 dimes 2 quarters, a 40% half and a Franklin 90%, a toasted buff nickel from a park and an old silver Canadian dime from a park. 2 of the nickels from parks. And both mercs from parks.

 

50 years back I used to detect outside small towns in the West (not SoCal) where travelling carnivals, flea markets etc used to be. Also old small semi-private cemeteries, out side the fences. I wouldn't be able to do it now, regardless the knees and back.