One meager find = One major milestone! :bounty: :compass: :whites: :minelab::drinking: :thumbup:

[Ray-Mo.]

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[sube]

Great post mike like you i started along time ago 1969 i know what you mean that it's not the same i have dug 1000s of silver coins and wheat Penny's Indians v nickles 1 large cent 100s of barbers but the quality's of old coins is no where near what you have dug don;t live in a real old area.I hit just about every 1 room school house in my state, parks high schools you name it this was in the early 70s there was not many clad coins or pull tabs the main problem was bottle caps .But like you the fairgrounds have been best to me.I'm getting up there in years also and thought of hanging it up but then the explorers came out and it was do over again not as hard as i hit it during the 70s but was very rewarding and kept at it now like you say it's hard to find a lot of coins i agree i change my attitude and it's more like hunting I'm satisfied with 5 or 6 older coins on a hunt now.There well never be places like i hunted before with a wheat penny just about every foot of dirt and 3 to 5 dollar of silver coins every hunt.Long gone but i still love to hunt once or twice a week that's why i got the ctx i finally found a seated coin 43 years of hunting 1875 cc to boot 5 inches deep put a smile on my face and yes at a old fairground.I have found about a 100 older coins now with the ctx from 1 fairground it's only a matter of time till i well be moving on looking for the next place but i'm enjoying myself.I know i hit plenty of virgin ground in the early years and cherish each of those hunts like you.I hope you get better and get out there again age is a funny thing wear and tear take there toll but as long as my knee's hang in there i be swinging .By the way those old coins you have found i don't think anybody ever well top the quality's of your find's you did good man.sube

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

20,000 coins??? That is simply amazing! Congrats!

 

[Eddie in Poulsbo]

Great achievement Mike.:clapping My hat is off to you. HH.

Eddie

 

[NealNoIN]

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[NebTrac]

Mike. I really appreciated the written history of your hunts. Thanks for the rundown of your finds. Congratulations on the milestone!

NebTrac

 

[Mike Moutray - St.Louis MO]

I've been on this forum since it's inception and have had the pleasure to meet and hunt with many of you. I've had a few people ask me about holding another weekend seminar at Forest Park like we did several years ago. I used to take people out there over the years to get them "fast-tracked" on learning their new detector whether it was Whites spectrums and XLTs or Minelab Explorers, because I learned where all the old coins were and I've seen many great finds made by them. I always enjoyed the great finds I saw other detectorists make out there as much as my own, so in that context I might have found a lot of stuff out there but it is only a fraction of the finds made out there in total. Yes, they can still be made, but expect to work hard for them! Take care,
Mike.

 

[Ray-Mo.]

Hope to get back over your way and hunt a bit with you and Guv and who ever else can make it this fall.Thanks for taking the time to help others along the way in our great hobby

 

[Mike Moutray - St.Louis MO]

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[TKNE33]

Mike, Huge congrats on the 20,000 milestone. Gotta be some kind of record. Can't wait to read the breakdown of the rest of the coins. There's gotta be at least 1 more coin in that park. If you're still finding wheats there could still be more silver. Nice job!

 

[DaugBiscuit]

What a great story, I read it with interest and chucked a bit on your last comment; you said, "when I look at it, I don't see coin #20,000, I see in it the other 19,999 coins that came before it." I would encourage you to send this posting to your local newspaper. I'm sure many in your neighborhood have seen you there and would read with delight your story.

I wish you well and hope you find many more, even more in Forest Park.

HH, Don.........

 

[Josey Wales]

Simply awesome! Beautiful post!

 

[Rissa]

That's a great story. I don't go to the Minelab sites very much but saw this story on the Minelab site checking out the CTX and was wondering if it was also over here.

R

 

[GOLDDIGGER]

If anyone could do it it would have had to be you !!
I am PROUD to say you are a friend of mine and I WISH I would have had a chance to of spent a lot more time out there with you !
I also had my own kind of Forest with Fairgrounds !! I just could not be pulled away from Fairground's long enough to drive over and meet up with you!
It always seemed like when it was a good day over at Forest it was also a good day at Fairgrounds"s also.
I only wish I would have spent just a fraction of the time that you did hunting that park, It was always a LOVE- HATE
kind of thing with forest for me I would love it when I could dig a 8 inch Deep Seated Dime and walk about 3 feet more
and get another Great DEEP SIGNAL that would end up being a 8 inch clad DIME!!!!
That is one of the reasons most people that have that happen the first time they hunt the park they NEVER go back!!
Oh well that left a lot more signals for you to dig up over the years Mike Because you would just go on to the next hole
knowing the next one would be another Seated or at least a Barber !
CONGRATS AGAIN MIKE !! On a Job well done, I hope your Back and Heath hold up for another 30 years or so to let you get another
20,000 coins from some other Poor old Park!!!
H.H.(GOLDDIGGER) J.W.

 

[spark456]

Congrats Mike and I'm really glad you don't hunt my park I see that you count all the coins that you have found and I have almost caught with you just on 130 coins and 15000 ull tab: someday they might be worth something...

 

[Ray-Mo.]

I have actually dreamed about finding the ultra rare US 20 cent piece like yours.Maybe on the next hunt and the chase is what it is all about for me