BAck when coins were plentiful and I was swinging a Tesoro..

[Uncle Willy]

This is one summer's haul. This pile is two feet long, a foot wide, and a foot deep. I forget the count but between 5000-7000.. Wish coins were that plentiful now. Sure was great back then.

BIll

 

[Uncle Willy]

n/t

 

[pulltab]

those would have been the days

 

[Beale]

Man that is a big ole pile of coins! I would have like to have hunted then, Beale.

 

[markg]

How far back is Back?

 

[JB(MS)]

I bought my first detector, a BFO kit detector like the one in the photo, in 1969. It had a 6.5 inch coil and would only go a couple of inches deep on a coin, but finding 100+ coins in a hunt around schools, ballfields and parks wasn't any problem. One school playground that covered maybe two acres had a couple of inches of sandy soil over hard clay and was almost solid with coins. Getting four or five coins per swing was common on the first few hunts. Not that way now though. The schools here went to vouchers for lunch and snacks a few years ago, the kids pay for all week on Monday, and finding 100 coins for the entire school year at that same playground would probably be hard.

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[SkiWhiz]

That is alot of loot. Maybe if ya start swinging a Tesoro again you could get another pile of coins lol. Steve.

 

[Uncle Willy]

How I wish that was true. It just ain't out there anymore in that volume. I still have a Tesoro and have owned one or another since Jack opened his doors for business.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

70's and 80's. Been doing this for 44 years.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah ain't it sad. I remember that detector. I've got a pic of a bunch of the old tectors available back then. I'll dig it up and post it. Some cost a whopping $16.95. The young fellas today don't know that back then there were probably a hundred different detectors available. Everybody and their dog was making and selling them. They had one back then that you just hooked a transistor radio to and that was your detector. I started in 1963 with a Metrotech.

Bill