Metal detector finds

Wish I could get you to come downstate to the island where my shack is. That island was settled in the late 17th century and I just know there has to be buried goodies on that place begging to be found.

 

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I'm currently using a Minelab Equinox 600, I keep looking at some of the new detectors, but I don't know if I want to go through the learning process! I am pretty comfortable with the 600.

 

Thank you all! I will have to be careful for the weight of it.

 

Paddy is on his way lol!

 

Made more than my gas, and I didn't dig a lot of zinc penny signals, but it's brutal out there.

 

Nice to find some keepers. A silver ring and a dollar coin. A 1 euro from Spain that I can't spend. At the last spot 2 large coyotes.

 

A little short making my gas, but I found an old Canadian silver dime. It's between 1911-1936. From 1911-1921 they made them out of .925 sterling silver which I think this is. From 1922-1936 80% silver.

 

P.S. 1919 was the last year of .925 sterling,
they went to .80 in 1920.

 

I made a little more than my gas. I had a 4 coin foreign spill.

 

Found this 1918 D dime about a week ago in a now empty lot that used to have apartments for cotton mill workers back from the 1880s. Lots of garbage in the area, but no risk means no reward!!

 

A tungsten ring and 2 dollar coins.

 

Milestone (cough, cough). Not including my hunts in Colorado in the 1990's,
I just hit 15,000 pennies.

 

I had some great hunts in Rio Rancho. It was always wide open and now my 2 best spots are locked up tight. Instead of just missing making my gas I would have brought back 3x as much. Not worth it anymore.

 

That is super. Did you take your detector into a bank

 

Recently hit some other milestones. 6000 dimes, 8400 quarters, 3200 nickels.
I'm closing in on 39,000 targets, but if I add in the 1990's Col stuff then it's a little more.

 

You must love your search hobby

 

I did but things are dwindling down now. The fun is over. Too bad. I've done the regular thing, but digging up and replacing the sod is too much work and the coins are often environmentally damaged, and my area is searched out and the ground is like cement. So I was always just doing modern, urban treasure hunts playgrounds in parks) because 90% of the time you don't have to dig past the sand or wood chips, sometimes you have to go down into the ground and that is still OK but not great. But the best spots were always the elementary school playgrounds. This is huge city and there are a ton of schools everywhere and over 90% of them were always open on the weekends. For kids to either use the swings etc. or for local neighborhoods to use to fields to play or walk their dogs. Well they are all locked up now with chains and gates and fences and prison doors even though it's not private property and almost no one was doing what I was doing. I would go out early Sunday mornings and hit 6 or 7 schools in one geographic area, and I had 8 or 9 different areas laid out, and other weeks I would hit parks, and by the time I went through the whole rotation, a few months would have passed and I would start the whole thing again. Everything was going great for 4 or 5 years and then the pandemic hit and that messed things up and slowly 1 by 1 they are all locked up like jails now. It's depressing. I do have a nice pile of dollar coins, (halves) silver rings, gold, etc. But the game is over. I was always bringing home dollar coins and my GF would say: Who even has dollar coins to lose? I assume they get them as change from some vending source inside the school?

 

I found a token for a Las Vegas casino. The top row are 7 looks for a W. D,D,D,D,D,D,D.

 

Nice! I haven't found any tokens ever. So, nice find!

 

As you retire, enjoy watching the metal detecting folks on YouTube. I've always enjoyed watching Green Mountain Metal Detecting (GMMD) on YouTube. Link to one of his latest videos.