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.
I thought in this triptych might be able to see the coins a little better up close. 1st one is a little blurry at the top but it gets better.
I've got nothing going on so I photographed my rings. I will try to describe most of them. The 1st photo are some really nice homemade jobs. Onyx Zircons Turquoise a couple more later. Misc. gemstones. Odds and ends, 1 more turq. and the other maybe fake turquoise. Plain rings. 2 chunky ones that I found in a short time frame, a Ralph Lauren .925 but plated gold for sale in China, and snake, flowers, skulls, feathers. Misc. The second one is pretty nice I will add a photo of that.
Short hunt made more than my gas. I didn't realize till I got home that I bagged a silver dime. Melt value $5. As Lefty said in Donnie Brasco: A score's a score.
Amazing that you've found gold have you sold any already? What about that school ring above the necklaces is it High School or College and where is it from, just wondering?
I haven't sold any. The class ring was from the 1st graduating class at a local high school in Albuquerque. I went over there but it was the pandemic and no visitors allowed. I searched online for any kind of alumni thing but without being a member I struck out there as well. No posted signs in the area where I found it.
I've had 3 large coin spills. The first was 3 dollar coins (Sacagaweas) there were 2 other hits but they were quarters. The next was 2 halves and a dollar coin and the last was Sunday with the 4 half spill. Halves are hard to lose because they are so large and heavy, and, you can't spend them on anything, or get them in change so how does anyone even have them to lose? The very 1st one I found 30 years ago seemed to have been buried for a number of years. But then all the rest since June 2016-date. I average finding 1 every thousand targets. Although 2 have been silver 90 and 40. The dollar coins a similar scenario but since they are only slightly larger than quarters easier to lose (except my 3 Ikes, the 1st which I believe was buried for a long time) but I have been pulling those 1 every 264 targets. But as my GF said when I kept bringing them home every week: Who even has these to lose? They don't circulate as coins very much around here. My credit union doesn't even carry halves or dollar coins and I have been with them 26 years. There's just no need for them. Before I found the 2 halves and dollar coin, I had never had a hunt where I found more than 1 half, including going to multiple hunt sites. So the 4 was a pleasant record.
