100 coins? No but close.

mastereagle22 · Sep 2, 2007

Well the weekend I had been waiting for for over a month finally arrived. My mom and sister had agreed to watch my kids so I could go on a hunt today with the goal of finding 100 coins. I got started at 6 AM and things didn't start off too good. Went to a local school that was stripped bare of any signals. Spent 40 mins there and realized I wasn't going to find anything so I decided to head over to the High School I graduated from. Got out of the car, fired up the Beast and hit a quarter right off the bat! Then a dime and two nickels and two pennies. I proceeded to find 64 more coins in the span of an hour. Only two more quarters though, so I think someone had cleaned the place out of quarters. Found a ton of trash (okay 2 pounds of foil, pop tops, twist off tops, screw tops and pulltabs.) Then I moved to a local park. In 10 minutes I found 10 more coins, mostly nickels and dimes. Then my ex-wife called and told me her mother had passed away and I had to quit and go to my mom's and tell my son. I did not look forward to that task. All-in-all I got to hunt today for three hours and I ended up with 87 coins, four of them being wheat pennies. The value of the coins is not very high but had I been able to hunt until 2 PM like I had planned I think I would have hit 150 at least.

The Buffalo nickel about gave me a heart attack until I flipped it over. The Eagle Button was found Saturday night in a neighbor's yard along with the tray of other junk, including the ladder to a play truck.

The little rivets drove me nuts trying to find them and I tried to save the planet with each pulltab I dug and dropped in the recycle box.

muleskinner · Sep 2, 2007

That's a load of stuff. I'ld call that a good day. The action figure kinda looks like what a Mastereagle should look like.

mastereagle22 · Sep 2, 2007

Baldingboy will probably tell you that that is how I dress when we go out a huntin!

Prober · Sep 2, 2007

Nice pile o clad ME. Looks like you did OK. Sorry about the ex-mother-in-law. My ex in laws are all gone now, even the ex wife, she died Jan 1 this year. The kids always take these things the hardest...comfort them the best you can.

Baldingboy · Sep 3, 2007

Looks like some good stuff. Nice job on the clad count. I am gonna have to start finding some more clad sites before you catch my count. Man....that action figure does bear a striking resemblance to you when you suited up to detect. It's uncanny.

{Sentinel} · Sep 3, 2007

Sounds like you had a Hail of a hunt. That is a mess of coins!!! Looks like the "Beast" is payin off! Nice Great Seal button as well!!!

Harry_Morant · Sep 3, 2007

A nice haul - well done. great looking Buff.

tymcmurray · Sep 3, 2007

Good looking finds.
Hope everybody makes it through the tough time.
Good luck.

desertfox · Sep 3, 2007

Great bunch of finds there. You beat the heck out of me this weekend. I went to our local high school and after an hour and a half I came home with an apron full of trash and three pennies!
The ground was hard as rock so I only dug targets that were a half inch or less. Sorry to learn about your ex mother-in-law. I hope your son is doing ok.......

Desertfox

John (Ma) · Sep 3, 2007

Very nice finds, looked like a good time.

panzermeyer · Sep 3, 2007

Nice haul !! Keep up the good work.God Bless and HH....Panz

karib2517 · Sep 3, 2007

nice going keep swinging.

Mental Granny · Sep 3, 2007

ME, Great bunch of finds, the action figure on top of the ladder

and everything else will make a very cool display! I'm sorry for your loss and I'll say a prayer for your son.

Captn SE · Sep 3, 2007

Hey ME, looks like you found quite a bit. Nice job.

The button is a Great Seal US military button, which the army began using back in 1902.

You're doing much better at finding stuff with your "Beast". More pics...more finds.

HH,
CAPTN SE
Dan

weasel606 · Sep 3, 2007

the beast was doing great ! nice finds and congrats

Ricardo_NY1 · Sep 4, 2007

Larry, you were close! I say give it another go soon, as it's obvious you can dig 100 coins. Just plan out where. Good work Larry, that was alot of digging.

mastereagle22 · Sep 4, 2007

Next chance I get I am going back to my mom's. I still have two places that I have permission to hunt and I know I only got a small portion of the coins at the School. I will go back and get my goal next time.!

mastereagle22 · Sep 4, 2007

mental granny said:
ME, Great bunch of finds, the action figure on top of the ladder and everything else will make a very cool display! I'm sorry for your loss and I'll say a prayer for your son.

Sadly, when I got home from the store later that afternoon my mother had thrown out all the "junk" as she called it I had placed into a big zip loc bag. So I lost the ladder and some of the other stuff. I did find the Action figure so I kept it but the rest of the stuff was mixed in with food garbage and I was NOT going through it for the stuff I found. The ladder was cool and I would have loved to have kept it. I think it came off an old Ertyl truck. That is what the lady who lives in the house I was at said her son lost when he was little.