I don't know how much any of you guys remember of what anybody posts here but I got real excited last Thursday about finding a buried roll of penny's. Well I went up north and took Mom out for lunch on Friday and then we went to Lowe's and got her stocked up on all the dirt and rocks and manure and peat moss I could fit in my truck (Some Mother's Day gift, huh, a truckload of dirt and manure!?!) When I got it all unloaded I broke out the 2500 and we walked around her yard. Didn't find much more than clad and then I hit an even bigger coin spill with 67 coins in it. 64 pennies and 3 dimes. I told my mother how I had just found something very similar just the day before. The latest was a 2006 zinc cent. I immediately suspected my niece, Claire, and when I saw her I asked her about it. She said she didn't remember burying any pennies (she's 7 now) and when I told her she wasn't in trouble she admitted to the crime. Of course she wanted her pennies back and after negotiations were over we decided she could have a small set of Lego's ($20.00 by the way) and I could keep the coins. Went out the next day with Claire and my other niece Emma to their school and found a bunch of clad. Emma was my helper and for the 77 cents she found she got two small sets of Lego's ($22.00) plus we all had a nice lunch ($18.00) and ice cream ($8.00) Got the dollar coin there. Claire, who loves to climb, was more interested in climbing up and over a tall chain link fence over and over and over and was not interested in MDing. She admitted she only came because every time she tries to climb the fence at recess some adult stops her. We had a chat about rules and that if something is against the rules when adults are around it's against the rules when they are not present too. I guess I don't qualify as an adult. On the way home Sunday, I stopped at a school I would normally not detect because it's too far away from here and hunted for 2 hours. That's picture 2. Nothing special except for the cool metal blob which was supposed to be a half dollar. 192 coins for $19.50 in 6-6.5 hours of hunting. Not bad for having two small fries in tow most of the time.
I'll catch up on what all of you guys found over the weekend tonight.
I'll catch up on what all of you guys found over the weekend tonight.
