Pennyworth
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I've decided that I'm going to try to detect playgrounds for a while,since it's a change from detecting local parks.
Today I met more children interested in what I was doing and I even told one girl where she purchase a metal detector. A little boy and girl,brother and sister asked if they could help dig for me today. So I said sure and I showed the boy how to use the digger. I just started using one with serrated teeth and I was very nervous letting a child use it. I watched him VERY carefully and I also told him not to swing it in the air that it wasn't a toy. I said I don't think your mother and father would be to happy with me if you got hurt. The girl looked very young and I asked her how old she was, she said she was seven. I said I'm sorry your very young and little and I don't think it's safe for you to be digging. I gave both of them each penny they helped find but they gave them back to me. LOL The boy then wanted a dime I found and the little girl wanted the heart charm. I told the girl I'm very sorry but I don't find a lot of jewelry and I'd like to keep it. At this point I felt like Cruella DeVille.
She didn't seem upset but I felt bad.
The little boy said he had a penny from the 1800's(can't remember the date he told me) and a nickle from the 1920's and I said you have an Indian Head penny and a Buffalo nickle. He said yes that's what they are,so I asked him where he got them from. He said since he received good grades, his social counselor gave them to him. I asked him what grades did he get and he said A's & B's and I said that's what I use to get as well. Then he told me his sister Holly(7 yrs old) get's straight A's.
Just think if these two get metal detectors, I bet they could find more than me.
Todays finds(one and a half hours of detecting): 2 quarters, 4 dimes, 1 nickle, 13 pennies, heart charm,and broken gold chain.
The second photograph is of some finds from last weekend: Sterling silver chain(broken),brown bottle with metal trim at neck,marble(found while digging a coin), and some sort of buckle(Band It 1/2 Denver). I have no idea if the marble is old,but I found it at a site that dates back to 1939.
Today I met more children interested in what I was doing and I even told one girl where she purchase a metal detector. A little boy and girl,brother and sister asked if they could help dig for me today. So I said sure and I showed the boy how to use the digger. I just started using one with serrated teeth and I was very nervous letting a child use it. I watched him VERY carefully and I also told him not to swing it in the air that it wasn't a toy. I said I don't think your mother and father would be to happy with me if you got hurt. The girl looked very young and I asked her how old she was, she said she was seven. I said I'm sorry your very young and little and I don't think it's safe for you to be digging. I gave both of them each penny they helped find but they gave them back to me. LOL The boy then wanted a dime I found and the little girl wanted the heart charm. I told the girl I'm very sorry but I don't find a lot of jewelry and I'd like to keep it. At this point I felt like Cruella DeVille.
She didn't seem upset but I felt bad. The little boy said he had a penny from the 1800's(can't remember the date he told me) and a nickle from the 1920's and I said you have an Indian Head penny and a Buffalo nickle. He said yes that's what they are,so I asked him where he got them from. He said since he received good grades, his social counselor gave them to him. I asked him what grades did he get and he said A's & B's and I said that's what I use to get as well. Then he told me his sister Holly(7 yrs old) get's straight A's.
Just think if these two get metal detectors, I bet they could find more than me.
Todays finds(one and a half hours of detecting): 2 quarters, 4 dimes, 1 nickle, 13 pennies, heart charm,and broken gold chain.
The second photograph is of some finds from last weekend: Sterling silver chain(broken),brown bottle with metal trim at neck,marble(found while digging a coin), and some sort of buckle(Band It 1/2 Denver). I have no idea if the marble is old,but I found it at a site that dates back to 1939.
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