You ever encounter this...

[grumpyolman]

Went to a local high school football field and was wandering around with the E-Trac and the 12X15 SEF. I came to one area and within in a 30' circle I got literally hundreds of hits. They all hit zincoln and were shallow. I noted the area for future reference and went back last night with the Ace 250 and the 9X12 coil. Yep! There were lots of pennies in the ground and all were shallow. I was even using the ProPointer to locate them instead of the Ace. Sometimes I'd hunt out a small area where I was kneeling and had to use the Ace to move a foot or so and then start anew. It got really boring after awhile and so I moved on looking for targets in the rest of the field. Someday when I have a newbie with me I'll take them there with a coin popper and turn em loose. It'd be a good way to learn. Only thing I Can figure is they had some kind of half-time activity where lots of pennies were used and there they lay. Jim

 

[Roscue2]

What year are most of the pennies from?

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

Reminds me a few years ago came up on a area like that.
It was the outer curb bordering a sports field it almost looked like someone threw handfuls of pennies along the edge of the field.
I called it a penny spread and must have dugged about 150 in radius of of 10 feet by 30 feet..

 

[jim tn]

Similar thing at our clubs seeded spring hunt a couple year's ago. Over about a 50' x 50' area of the last seeded field someone threw about 100 or so "rotten" Memorial cents. :angry: HH jim tn

 

[dirtdigginlady]

Lots of people play a penny pitching game.

 

[grumpyolman]

I didn't note the year on the pennies but they were all new and shiny just like they had come from the bank. They were only in the ground about 1/4". Don't know why they'd be pitching pennies in the middle of a football field. It was closer to the bleacher side of the field about the 40 yd. line. I dont' have the time or desire to dig that many worthless cents. Think I'll take a newbie whose interested in detecting to that area for an hour or so before we start working something else. Now if they were mostly wheaties and this had happened 'wheatie' years ago... Jim

 

[thedeserttortoise]

If any of my friends see me MDin they have gotton into the habbit of tossing pennys around me when I'm not paying attention to them. I just turn down the headphones and play along. I listen to them as they tell each other.."he's getting closer". As I approach their pennys I'll just veer off a few feet and dig an empty hole. I'd look up at them and they'd all be laughing and yelling "you cant find anything with that detector". I nailed these guys quite a few times before they figured out what I was doing. Their so bored now I don't have to deal with their junk anymore when their around. We're all retired and they hang out and watch me detect if I'm near the coffee stop in the mornings. When I do find something they get as big a kick out of it as me... I got one of them going and using my stuff and he just bought a cache hunting system for himself. He's up on the Turtleback Mountain looking for old spanish gold everyday now. Cheers...Tortoise

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Where I'm at, the Mexican immigrants are fond of a practice known as a "pinata" That's a stuffed toy animal thingy, that kids beat with sticks. It is filled with candy (that spills out and the kids go scurrying to pick up the candy when it falls out of the paper-mache toy thing). But they also put coins in it. I guess the kids are supposed to scurry on the ground and pick up as much coins as they can. The pinatas are hoisted above a tree-branch. So sometimes, beneath a single tree-branch, in some public parks here, it seems you can dig 100 clad in a small circle!

 

[zeekeys]

Hey Jim
I had that happen to me on the beach. The detector went bonkers. I thought beer cans. No there was 127 coins in a circle about 4". Quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies came up with every scoop.
That also happened to me in the 80's when the county came and tore down and old wooden snack shack. I went over there and picked up over 200 coins on or near the surface. My detector pouch was so heavy I had to stop and go to the car to empty it in the trunk and go back and get some more. I didn't stop until I knew there wasn't anymore both times.....Z

 

[macattie88]

i ran into a area like that along a stream that ran thru gattlinburg ,tenn...i was there on vacation and while the wife shopped i went swinging...found tons of coins....i guess people where throwing coins in the stream for luck ,i dont really know but i found about a hundred coins in about 2 hours....recovered some of the money the wife spent..lol