deepskyal
Bronze Member
- Aug 17, 2007
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- Detector(s) used
- White's Coinmaster 6000 Di Series 3, Minelab Eq 600
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
I went to my old grade school today to do a little detecting. My gosh has that thing grown. It's as big as the high school I went to. It's probably 20 times bigger now then when I went there. Anyhow...being the believer that a site is never hunted out...I went to the only spot that still looked like it was in the same place as when I was a kid.
There is a set of steps running from the school down to the field I remember playing on so thats where I went.
Silence......more silence....a beep...a piece of a pull tab...more silence....a dime...lots more silence...another dime...a nickle...more silence...another dime.
I was seriously expecting a lot of junk, pull tabs, screw caps..(I did pass one over)...and of course...ye olde penny.
Not a single penny and the area was virtually devoid of any junk. My take was the 3 dimes and a nickle for about an hours worth of detecting. The oldest was a 1977, as was the nickle and the latest a 1989. The original school dated back to the late 1800's.
The only thing I can guess is someone went over the area and was a hard core detectorist and cleaned up everything...except the dimes.
I've nicknamed my detector the dime magnet because I find a lot of them in areas that others have told me they've hit hard. So why are people missing dimes? They sing out pretty loud on my machine at an average depth of 3-4".
It just doesnt make sense I'd find those and no junk or pennies.
A grade school yard and no pennies.....I just dont get it.
Al
There is a set of steps running from the school down to the field I remember playing on so thats where I went.
Silence......more silence....a beep...a piece of a pull tab...more silence....a dime...lots more silence...another dime...a nickle...more silence...another dime.
I was seriously expecting a lot of junk, pull tabs, screw caps..(I did pass one over)...and of course...ye olde penny.
Not a single penny and the area was virtually devoid of any junk. My take was the 3 dimes and a nickle for about an hours worth of detecting. The oldest was a 1977, as was the nickle and the latest a 1989. The original school dated back to the late 1800's.
The only thing I can guess is someone went over the area and was a hard core detectorist and cleaned up everything...except the dimes.
I've nicknamed my detector the dime magnet because I find a lot of them in areas that others have told me they've hit hard. So why are people missing dimes? They sing out pretty loud on my machine at an average depth of 3-4".
It just doesnt make sense I'd find those and no junk or pennies.
A grade school yard and no pennies.....I just dont get it.
Al
