Best coinshooter ever?????

[DFX-Gregg]

Ok while finishing off my quest for 10,000 coins for the year this month, I have received a few letters in the mail box from forum members for inspiration as well as talking with others who have hit 10,000. I remember seeing an Explorer user claiming to find 19,000 coins in a year.... The last letter I received was an article from Lost Treasure dated May 1999. The article is called Counting by the Thousands. In the article Paul Campbell mentions the system he used of saving every thousandth coin and putting it in a special binder. From 1975 to 1998 he ended up putting 221 coins in the binder...or a total representing finds of 221,000 coins!

He mentioned having over 23,000 in one year, and once over 1,000 in seven days! I mentioned his abilities on another forum and someone mentioned Lloyd Coke who found over 36,000 coins one year. They did not print a career total.... So I am wondering is Paul Campbell the best coinshooter ever?

 

[Doctorcoinz]

You wont find that amount of coins here in the uk gregg , i am trying to work out why your sites are loaded with so many coins , all i can say is it must be something to do with the massive size of your country compared to ours - call me pessimist but i guess our sites over here are pretty well cleared out on the coin shooting sites. My record of coin finds is probably about 70 in a day and this was on a previously un worked site. Finding coin shooting over here is pretty hard. We have farmland but many fields seem very quiet . Visit an average park over here and in 6 hours hunting you might get say 20 coins if you are lucky.

 

[clondike clad]

Anyone who love the art of finding coins is the best coinshooter ever.
If you only find one coin or 10,000 coins it is all the the joy of the hunt.
Now enjoy you hunting and get to 10000 coins.

 

[DFX-Gregg]

Well...in the city I live in there are 2 million people alone...not counting the suburbs.... Sports activity and fans watching on the sidelines most of the year....Parks, beaches, forest preserves all very busy... I have approximately 50 parks in a 20 mile radius...I have only hit 12-15 this year regularly....So here it is endless.... But I do not see myself finding 20-30,000 coins in a year...that is why I mentioned Mr. Campbell and his 221,000 coins.

 

[UK Brian]

Remember I posted on the Whites forum? about the people finding 20,000 coins a year in the pre motion detector days, Gregg.
I had 14 or 15 e-mails afterwards from people topping the 15,000 mark, and a couple claiming 20,000 plus. So the numbers are still being achieved.
One point is that they all seem to be early retirers or in one case, work nights.

Question still is, are they making any money or finding anything interesting ? Must be better to have one old collectable coin than a hundred modern.
I finished a three week trip round Wales and the West country in my camper last week, about 17 days actual detecting. 24 rings, most of which weren't much good, made a profit most days on coins which covered all costs and found several older items such as a spear head and a bronze torc. Did sufficiently well that I'm donating a gold Sovereign as a prize on the U.K. forum I use.
Meanwhile the Minelab Rally was held at Corfe for about the forth year running and one field produced still produced over 500 finds so obviously there's not much left in the ground over here.

 

[DFX-Gregg]

You know you always have the best stories...I also know from some of your previous finds you are a top hunter....Brian what I like about you...you do not brag like a few I have seen on other forums....Thanks for the response...I am really winding down...getting tired. You are right the people with the extremely high amounts of total coins seem to be older/retired. Still not sure how they do it. Hunting 3-4 hours a day 3-4 times a week I am beat. Working midnights has allowed me to hit parks during the week....this allows me to beat the weekend warriors to a lot of the coins....Thanks for the response...

 

[UK Brian]

Got my comeuppance yesterday, detecting tide to tide. Could not get out of bed this morning. My wife is to load me in the car in an hours time and off for a touch of acupuncture which will no doubt cost more than I've found in the last few days.

Brian

 

[DFX-Gregg]

Brian sorry to hear that....I too have missed my last 2 scheduled hunting days..Sunday and now today...sick sore back...more sick today..run down with a cold...dropping from high 80s here to 50's tomorrow...should help....Hey get better....the treasure can wait!

 

[Ron from Michigan]

Alright Hollywood Greg who's the best would depend on who you ask.I think the best is the guy that knows how to research to find good hunt sites.Knows how to use equipment and networks with people.Monte would be one of those guys and there are other Pros on this site.Any hunter can find coins in a tot lot,but 600.00 in zinc pennies doesn't make a very good coinshooter.I hope these fast hunters don't butcher the grounds.

 

[DFX-Gregg]

Ron the people I am talking about are well respected hunters that have been featured in treasure hunting magazines like Lost treasure...Why are you always sarcastic...fall off your horse one to many times...