Boobydoo
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14KT Diamond ring & heavy 14K gold bracelet, 242 coins
Hello everyone!
Another beautiful Saturday morning here is Michigan so I got out crack of dawn yesterday and hit a couple more schools in the hot school district I have been pillaging the past few weekends. The first was a K-8 school. I have searched two other K-8 schools in the past with great success so I was excited to go there and I wasn't let down! The second was another school a half mile away. It was one of my best days of the summer. The finds were constant and I ended up with a pouchful at both schools. I was definitely workin' it! Here's the finds dumped out together prior to cleaning.
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At the first school I found 3 nice gold jewelry pieces! I was pumped needless to say. The first was a sweet solid gold bracelet, found under one of those round monkey bar play structures. I always find something under these. The challenge is to squeeze through the triangle to get inside and then back out. It was about 8 inches from the metal bar. I love my ole Garrett TR machine! The bracelet is solid, not hollow and weighs 21 grams! It was clasped and it's in perfect shape, very well made with a nice safety clasp too. I wonder how could someone loose it like that. I can't imagine that a kid would be wearing it because it has to be an expensive item. Oh well, their loss is my gain this time. It's marked 14K with a "RTSD" maker mark. It has white gold and yellow gold links. Wooowhooo! I also found two gold rings here. The first was a small kids 10K double heart ring found 10 feet in front of one of the slides right against the edge plastic border of the play area. The second is a really nice diamond ring found at the base of one of the slides. Hallmark is 14KT with an italic maker mark "MO". There are 13 diamonds total with the center one being a little larger then the rest. Sweet!! It was under the first step of the ladder. The ole Garrett TR comes through again! It was singing from the steel ladder but I heard a very slight disruption in the humming sound when I passed it under the ladder, so I scooped all the woodchips out from under the step and wooowhooo the diamond ring rolls out in front of me. Needless to say, I was on cloud nine at this point. I also got a nice solid 925 hoop earring at this school. Tons of trinket finds were found too and a lot of clad. There was lots of trash here too. I actually had to go to the truck and empty the trash side of the pouch twice during the hunt. Several dangerous items too which I will post in Pigman's thread. Two intact razor blades, several long sharp nails, and some long sharp screws.
The second school, no gold but I did manage a few keepers. The first found out in front of a swing was a Disney "L-O-V-E" Mickey Mouse bracelet. It's hallmarked "Disney " only so I don't think it's sterling but it's nice anyway. I found my second Chanel double "C" earring of the year in one of the play areas. Nice sparkly crystals in these. Another large CZ 925 earring popped out from the play area also.
Here's the keepers... love that ring and the bracelet!
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While I was cleaning my coins, I got a nice surprise also, a 1964D silver Roosevelt dime was in the mix. My total coins for the day were 242 for a face value of $16.28. I was busy! There were 38 quarters boosting the dollar value nicely. I had probably 15 coinspill finds including one with 5 quarters stacked together.
Totals for day were the clad and keepers mentioned above, found in 5 - 1/2 hours search time. This was my 5th 200 plus coin day in a row! My total coins found just happens to be at exactly 6000 for the year after this hunt for a face value of $422.08 found in 148 hours of searching. A ton of interesting trinkets this day. I know some of you probably don't care and don't count them but some of them are pretty cool I think. There were 4 junque rings , 18 pendant/fobs, including a Wrestlemania 23 fob, an old Borden's Milk "Elsie" pendant, a tiny GI Joe dogtag, 2 electronic LCD blinkie thingies both working, 6 earrings, 4 pizza tokens (not CC), 2 shot bullets, and 4 cool pins. I also found a rusty steel large Geo Washington coin of some kind.
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Sorry this post is so long, but there were a lot of finds on this day. Happy hunting to all. I may not get out for a couple weeks as I will be out of town next weekend playing golf up north and might be taking the kids for an end of summer outing the following weekend. Maybe I can get a couple short hunts in during the evening week night sometime?? Best of luck to you all, thanks for reading!
Smiles!
BDoo
Hello everyone!
Another beautiful Saturday morning here is Michigan so I got out crack of dawn yesterday and hit a couple more schools in the hot school district I have been pillaging the past few weekends. The first was a K-8 school. I have searched two other K-8 schools in the past with great success so I was excited to go there and I wasn't let down! The second was another school a half mile away. It was one of my best days of the summer. The finds were constant and I ended up with a pouchful at both schools. I was definitely workin' it! Here's the finds dumped out together prior to cleaning.
.
At the first school I found 3 nice gold jewelry pieces! I was pumped needless to say. The first was a sweet solid gold bracelet, found under one of those round monkey bar play structures. I always find something under these. The challenge is to squeeze through the triangle to get inside and then back out. It was about 8 inches from the metal bar. I love my ole Garrett TR machine! The bracelet is solid, not hollow and weighs 21 grams! It was clasped and it's in perfect shape, very well made with a nice safety clasp too. I wonder how could someone loose it like that. I can't imagine that a kid would be wearing it because it has to be an expensive item. Oh well, their loss is my gain this time. It's marked 14K with a "RTSD" maker mark. It has white gold and yellow gold links. Wooowhooo! I also found two gold rings here. The first was a small kids 10K double heart ring found 10 feet in front of one of the slides right against the edge plastic border of the play area. The second is a really nice diamond ring found at the base of one of the slides. Hallmark is 14KT with an italic maker mark "MO". There are 13 diamonds total with the center one being a little larger then the rest. Sweet!! It was under the first step of the ladder. The ole Garrett TR comes through again! It was singing from the steel ladder but I heard a very slight disruption in the humming sound when I passed it under the ladder, so I scooped all the woodchips out from under the step and wooowhooo the diamond ring rolls out in front of me. Needless to say, I was on cloud nine at this point. I also got a nice solid 925 hoop earring at this school. Tons of trinket finds were found too and a lot of clad. There was lots of trash here too. I actually had to go to the truck and empty the trash side of the pouch twice during the hunt. Several dangerous items too which I will post in Pigman's thread. Two intact razor blades, several long sharp nails, and some long sharp screws.
The second school, no gold but I did manage a few keepers. The first found out in front of a swing was a Disney "L-O-V-E" Mickey Mouse bracelet. It's hallmarked "Disney " only so I don't think it's sterling but it's nice anyway. I found my second Chanel double "C" earring of the year in one of the play areas. Nice sparkly crystals in these. Another large CZ 925 earring popped out from the play area also.
Here's the keepers... love that ring and the bracelet!
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While I was cleaning my coins, I got a nice surprise also, a 1964D silver Roosevelt dime was in the mix. My total coins for the day were 242 for a face value of $16.28. I was busy! There were 38 quarters boosting the dollar value nicely. I had probably 15 coinspill finds including one with 5 quarters stacked together.
Totals for day were the clad and keepers mentioned above, found in 5 - 1/2 hours search time. This was my 5th 200 plus coin day in a row! My total coins found just happens to be at exactly 6000 for the year after this hunt for a face value of $422.08 found in 148 hours of searching. A ton of interesting trinkets this day. I know some of you probably don't care and don't count them but some of them are pretty cool I think. There were 4 junque rings , 18 pendant/fobs, including a Wrestlemania 23 fob, an old Borden's Milk "Elsie" pendant, a tiny GI Joe dogtag, 2 electronic LCD blinkie thingies both working, 6 earrings, 4 pizza tokens (not CC), 2 shot bullets, and 4 cool pins. I also found a rusty steel large Geo Washington coin of some kind.
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Sorry this post is so long, but there were a lot of finds on this day. Happy hunting to all. I may not get out for a couple weeks as I will be out of town next weekend playing golf up north and might be taking the kids for an end of summer outing the following weekend. Maybe I can get a couple short hunts in during the evening week night sometime?? Best of luck to you all, thanks for reading!
Smiles!
BDoo
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