Stopped digging pennies after # 40..

[Uncle Willy]

Got into an area in a park today that was littered with pennies. You couldn't swing your coil without getting five or six beeps - all pennies. I stopped picking them up after 40. Most were laying at the base of the grass or slightly under the soil. Only got one quarter but a slew of dimes and a Russian coin like I've never seen plus the silver heart.

John would have been in heaven in this penny gold mine. I must have left a hundred laying there. Years ago this was a very productive park. One time I picked up nearly $7.00 just under one tree and it was mostly quarters. My how times have changed. If I'm ever "penny hungry" I'll go back.

Bill

Forgot to say, pennies are in stacks of five.

 

[DavHut]

Good example of what I call a site's "Trash Suite". Each site has one and you can only know it once you are there and swinging.

Some places will be littered with foil, or iron bits, or lead plumbing slag - or pennies.

It's important to learn it and how your instrument responds to it. By cent #40, Bill, I suppose you had it down.

 

[awhitster]

Nice finds today Bill. You know you can discriminate out those pennys

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah but some of them turn out to be dimes. Corroded dimes almost always ID as cents.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah in the past I've stumbled into these "penny pitches" at schools where the kids throw all their pennies and there will often be 100-200 pennies laying in one area.

Bill