on top of the ground! (add your story)

[chukers]

From time to time I find coins on top of the ground as I am sure you all have too... even more rare is finding an older coin on top of the ground... well I did just that tonight... I got a quarter signal ad 0 inches!!! at first I thought it was a can but the signal was so clean so I looked down and I said... naa that can't be on top of the ground... nooooo that can't be a quarter... well I was wrong... just bend over and pick it up!

Every time I find a keeper like this I wonder how long its been sitting there like that!

Tell us of your "on top of the ground" finds too! I am very interested in knowing your story too!

Chukers

 

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[oxbowbarefoot]

I have never found anything interesting on top. However, I was leading a group of middle schoolers on a field trip to a park that I detect several times a week and one of my students found a 10k gold plated sterling ring with amethyst and topaz stones that was beautiful. I was a little annoyed that is didn't even make it into the ground for me to find, but I was happy for my student.

 

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[Steve in PA]

I found this 1775 King George III right on the surface at a colonial site I was hunting. I got a signal, started to pinpoint, and saw it laying there. It was in the woods where the ground was bare.

 

[chukers]

oh I just remember this one... it still amazes me I found this on top of the ground... it must of been there for 50 years or more!


Chukers

 

[dawsoncity40Chris]

I had myself a top of the ground find a couple weeks ago. I live in dawson city yukon and one day I was walking along the river where the old dump was many years ago and on the shore where water had been before the level dropped was a 1892 American silver dollar from the gold rush days

 

[chukers]

I had myself a top of the ground find a couple weeks ago. I live in dawson city yukon and one day I was walking along the river where the old dump was many years ago and on the shore where water had been before the level dropped was a 1892 American silver dollar from the gold rush days

nice find... I've never even found a dollar coin in 20+ years!

 

[cuzcosquirrel]

Found a 16 gigabyte micro memory card on the ground yesterday at school. Might turn it in since it could have someone's paper on it. Will probably read it and see what is on it first.

Last year on the same campus commons I found a 1/5 carat diamond earring solitair pushed down in a crack between the cement slabs.

 

[underarock]

So far 1 bike 1 razor scooter and one of the biggest swiss army knives ever made. Oldest coin on the surface was a 1917 wheatie. I found a 1902 indian head in the take a penny dish at a pizza place the other day.

 

[High Plains Digger]

Wow! I have never never seen and IH in circulation, and I used to get $10 in parking meter pennies every week for a couple of years in 1964-66. Steelies were there, but never a IH.

 

[Valley Ranger]

I found a saddle rosette on top of the ground at DIV 17.

 

[dustbuster]

There used to be a contest at the Texas State Fair where there was someone wandering around the fairgrounds that was worth a lot of money if he could be found. You had to walk up to him with a box top from a colgate polmolive product and ask if he "was Mr. Cap".
A clue was given each day of the week until he was found. I went out the first day with one clue. He had brown hair. I spent the entire day there, but was getting pretty hungry and had no money to eat on. Thought I would have to leave, but looking down to the ground in that huge crowd I spied a small bundle of bills. Turned out to be about 6 dollars. I ate and continued my search.
Long story, sorry. Happy ending. I found him the next day and won 1500.00

 

[chukers]

There used to be a contest at the Texas State Fair where there was someone wandering around the fairgrounds that was worth a lot of money if he could be found. You had to walk up to him with a box top from a colgate polmolive product and ask if he "was Mr. Cap".
A clue was given each day of the week until he was found. I went out the first day with one clue. He had brown hair. I spent the entire day there, but was getting pretty hungry and had no money to eat on. Thought I would have to leave, but looking down to the ground in that huge crowd I spied a small bundle of bills. Turned out to be about 6 dollars. I ate and continued my search.
Long story, sorry. Happy ending. I found him the next day and won 1500.00

wow that is a neat story... I have been in central Texas for 20 years and never knew they did that at the state fair!

 

[chukers]

ok I am going to expand on this post... its a funny story kinda... but it might fit into this post...


I have never told this story... so you all get to hear it its a rather unique story and it fit me so well... especially now I know who I am and what I like... when I was a teenager, I was not a popular kid, I was not into what everyone else was doing, I did my own thing... I wasn't weird (I didn't think so) I just had different interests. I was walking through the gym one day... the bleachers were filling with kids for a pep rally or something... I was walking down the middle of the gym not really close to anyone they are all on the bleachers... someone threw a coin at me... I heard it so I chased it down... then another coin came out of nowhere and another and another... I guess they thought it amusing to see me chase coins... well it didn't bother me because after 10 to 15 minutes of doing this I had two pockets of change. then another boy joined me... it ended shortly after that because of the rally. I don't remember how much or what I found all I remember was the "event" maybe that why I am such a "coin freak" now... its odd how events and experiences mold you to what you are now.

so my obsession with coin finding continues today...

Chukers

 

[birdman]

About a year ago I was hunting on a beach with no luck. After a couple of hours I started walking over to my buddie to see what his take was and I saw about an inch of gold chain sticking out of the sand. I reached down and pulled a nice 14K necklace out of the sand. It was my only gold for the day but I was happy.

 

[jerseyben]

All my life I walk around looking at the ground and it has always paid off. I have found jewelry, coins, silver in cashier trays, dollar bills, and even recently I eyeballed a 1909 V nickel and an awesome button at my "go-to" MD site. I have a hawkeye for sure!

 

[DCMatt]

I found a Civil War three ringer in a pile of gravel at the bottom of a rocky ledge.

DCMatt

 

[Gimmie The Loot]

Found a small 14k ring on the sand at the beach last year, and this year found an 1898 Indian Penny on the surface. I found a silver roosie and merc sticking out of the dirt last week after detecting them. Surprised to see the edge exposed.

 

[HEAVYMETALNUT]

my best surface find was a 1777 spanish one reale.here's the thread
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,428618.0.html

 

[Silver Searcher]

I like this thread over the years I have made quite a few surface finds, Hammered Silver coins, Roman silver coins laying just on top, But with out doubt this is my best, and proberbly my best find ever

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,177320.html

SS

 

[heepiepow]

Great finds everyone! I've found a few wheaties on the ground, and a $20 bill on the sidewalk while walking to a site. It's funny how detecting has trained me to look at the ground everywhere I walk, detector or not!

My best surface find was a 10k gold ring at a park, just sittin' pretty behind a tree, two feet from a basketball court!

 

[chukers]

Now after reading all your stories I realized I am not the only one with such luck to find things on top of the ground... I'll be looking even harder to find stuff wherever I go... thanks for telling all your stories. it is an inspiration!


chukers