Does It Matter How Or When It Ended Up There?

[Subterranean]

Asking for a friend...

Every once in a while I am surprised by a "That Shouldn't be There!" Today's digging brought that yet again. I was detecting around a swing set in a public school. This playground was about 10 years old. In the mud and bark of the swing set area, I got a jumpy mid-80's VDI on the AT Max, (usually a clad coin) In the plug, 7-8" down, were a slick Standing Liberty quarter, a 1908 V nickle, and a 1969 Canadian penny. Flabbergasted again! The day also produced a marked .925 sterling adult's ring, widgets, bling, and some clad! Get out and dig when you can! Cheers, Sub





PS: This is ring #30 for the month of May. I need one more for the 31 days of May!

 

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[BigWaveDave]

Crazy good finds!
No pressure this week for #31

 

[rjw4law]

hmm from days gone by. !

 

[creskol]

Maybe it came it the mulch or in fill dirt.

Great batch finds !

 

[A2coins]

Not much surprises me anymore. Great hunt 31 rings thats a good pile I would be pretty happy about that. Great day looks like........Tommy

 

[CASPER-2]

wave ring - those are getting popular over the last few years

 

[Carolina Tom]

Dang man, that’s a nice set of finds Sub.

Well done.

 

[lenmac65]

Nice finds. That nickel is in great shape. Congrats!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Play areas always amaze me of the interesting and odd finds!

 

[Johncoho]

Nice finds, Sub.

 

[VTColonialDigger]

Awesome finds! Standing Liberty Quarters are some of the coolest coins in my opinion, and even cooler to dig them! Odd that the SLQ along with the other two awesome coins were at a modern playground. Maybe one of the kids brought in those coins to show their friends and lost them out of their pockets.

 

[RVRoamer73]

Nice going sub. Those kind of surprises are definitely a nice sight to see. Thanks for sharing. Congrats!

 

[Trezurehunter]

Nope, doesn't matter at all, (although we always wonder). Bottom line is, is that it was there and you found it. Great finds Sub.

 

[Subterranean]

Awesome finds! Standing Liberty Quarters are some of the coolest coins in my opinion, and even cooler to dig them! Odd that the SLQ along with the other two awesome coins were at a modern playground. Maybe one of the kids brought in those coins to show their friends and lost them out of their pockets.

VTCD, You are spot on, this has to be a case of a school kid bringing "grampa's treasure coins" to show off to his friends. After a swinging session finishing with a back flip, pike, and half twist, the coins were jettisoned from the pocket of his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sweatshirt, falling in perfect harmony into a shallow depression in the bark. Time and trampling pushed them down, down, down... Oh my, I digress...

 

[jewelerguy]

maybe some kid snuck them out of dads collection for show and tell

 

[Evolution]

Looks like you found a set of Captain's bars there. He must have been the captain of that airplane I'm guessing. Congratulations! You're the "coin captain" of the day.

 

[sylvia40]

I found an 1863 IH behind a backstop in a couple inches of sand. Came in from somewhere with the fill sand. You just never know!

 

[Silvermonkey]

I always think of these kind of finds as a well deserved bonus..doesn't matter how they came to be there. YOU found it! ENJOY it!

 

[smallfoot]

How they came to rest there is up in the air. The land has been here as long as the planet has existed. It only takes humans the act of losing something to be found by someone else. Surely some people crossed that ground before it became a school. There's a trail thru my place that only dates back to mid 1800s. No homesites within a mile. Only thing ever in history about one small area is a cultivated field along side a trail that ran from a hunting and fishing lodge and a school house(2 miles apart) that at it's peak only had 23 students. In that cultivated area, I've found hundreds of shotgun shell headstamps, bullets out the wazoo, watches, coins dating to 1879, suspender clips and garter clips, and among the other finds, 12 harmonica reeds. Just a trail and a field in a sparsely populated area.

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Very nice !