A Chilling discovery, Bones under the Bleachers and Bank Hiest Loot Recovered!

[Frodov]

Today started off like too many others this morning at "OH MY GOD thirty" when I rolled out of bed to get ready for work. Work on my day off even! *sigh* A least since today was technically a day off I didn't have to work an entire 12 hour shift. So, after a long six and a half hours I clocked out, and rocked out to the radio as I drove to a nearby town and it's baseball quad. Quad or Cloverleaf, whatever you call it, four baseball diamonds back to back to back surrounding a bathroom/office/concession building. It's been weeks since I have searched this location and that means it's had weeks to absorb who knows how much treasure for me to find. I'm pretty confident that no one else is hunting this site as it's paved with gravel, and some sand. Nobody likes to dig gravel! I don't like to dig gravel... but that's the beauty of it, you don't NEED to dig gravel, as any coins dropped here don't sink like they would in grass, soil or sand. I guess too many folks don't understand that.. all's the better for me! Parking on the approach on one leg of the cloverleaf I began sweeping the gravel and grass around the bleachers and between the ball fields. And I began finding stuff right away. Pull tabs, bottle caps, can slaw, and some coins. Pennies and dimes mostly. I don't know what it is about gravel, but DIMES LOVE GRAVEL!
Here a dime, there a penny pull tab pull tab pull tab.. doing pretty well I rounded field two and three and was about to transition to the far side of field three. Here , at the end of the "alley" between the fields the parks department dumps a load of sand to be used to fill holes and wear and tear on the diamonds.. some of this sand gets spilled as it's transported to the various diamonds.. but it gets grated or raked down to smooth out the "alley". Hey, Sand is sand! What detectorist would pass up sweeping sand? I wouldn't. and I didn't. As I approached the bleachers I saw the edge of a penny peeking out of the sand. Stooping down I plucked the coin out and as habit demands, I ran my bullseye around the vicinity of the coin I'd just plucked.. and it vibrated. Another coin? Cool.. pluck, sweep, vibrate?? ?Another coin? and another, and another.. MY MY MY! Had to get down on one knee to look some more.. and more I found.. another and another and another.. What's going on here?? Now down on hands and BOTH knees I'm sweeping and sifting coin after coin after coin out of this hole.. Every time I think I've got the last penny or nickel, stand up and sweep over the find area and Bleep! only this time it was more like BLEEEBLEEBLEEBLEEEEEEBLEEEEEP !!! What the Hell coin, coin, coin, coin ,coin coin.. It got to the point that I quit putting coins into my finds bag and just pitched them into a pile beside me.. and it was turning into a LARGE PILE of coins!
This is the biggest haul of coins that I've pulled from any hole I've ever detected yet! I counted the coins after I found the last one.. Or so I'd thought.. I was getting tired of plucking coins! Anyway, counted I did, and the tally was ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY TWO COINS!!!! 132 coins? DAMNNNNN! All from an area not more than 18 inches across. Remember this was sand.. so there wasn't a lot of digging, just pushing sand aside. After I found the last coin, I stood up again and swept over the "pit" again, no signals.. but just a few inches outside the "pit" I got another penny, and a strange signal. The target ended up being first one then another matchbox car. As I shook out the sand from the little souped up sedan I began to realize what I had stumbled upon. Some little Juvenile delinquent preschooler had robbed a bank.. a piggy bank perhaps. And the cars were the getaway vehicles. The cache that I found was the spoils of this heist and the cars were dumped after the deed was done. <grin>
After plucking out all the coinage from the loot site, I began, or rather resumed my search of the clover leaf. Sweeping around the front of the bleachers I found more pull tabs, pull tabs,.. penny, pull tab.. bone.. pull ta... WHAT? Backing up and getting down on my knees to get a better look , there under the edge of the bleachers was the macabre mask of bone.. a SKULL! A long dead skull. A VERY LONG DEAD Skull.. practically prehistoric OLD skull. There sat a perfectly preserved representative of Triceratops Plastica.. <grin> Another unique find on an already remarkable day of metal detecting. But my day wasn't over yet! Continuing on I found more coins, pennies, dimes, LOTS of dimes, an occasional quarter. I found one Wheat penny, a 1955 D. And one Chilling discovery.. or should I say a "Shilling" discovery. A 1953 Shilling. What the hell? And just what is a Schilling worth anyway?












Eventually I got back to my truck having gone full circle.. or full clover leaf anyway. Time to call it a day. On my way home though I stopped at a local orchard and picked up some fresh apples.. There are apple pies in my near future!.
Actually, as of this writing, there are TWO HOT FRESH APPLE PIES cooling on the kitchen counter. mmmmmmmmm.. the smell.... yumm!

Ok, enough teasing. <grin> Now get out there and GET SOME! Happy Hunting All.



Frodov

 

[Colonial KirkPA]

Frodov strikes again! :P

 

[Baldingboy]

Enjoyed the read Fro...........very entertaining. Congrats on a great day!

 

[txkickergirl]

Loved reading the story, I got to say after such an exciting day I would be totally drained and unable to write except to say had a good day here are my finds....lol

 

[Frodov]

No matter how good or bad my day has been, metal detecting, I'm NEVER too tired to write something about it. That's one thing about this hobby, it keeps you jazzed and you just GOT to share with other enthusiasts. Now not being too tired, and not having time are two different things. There have been a few times that I've had to postpone my "posting" for a while even a day or so due to other obligations or to some "Honey Do" task. <grin> Sometimes the Hobby comes second.. got to keep peace at home if you know what I mean. At first my wife was thrilled that I'd found a hobby that I enjoyed and that I could share with others. But then... I started spending more and more time on the hobby.. well, the better halves tend to get a little jealous when they're left out, even if they're invited and even encouraged to join in.. just not the same when they don't share the passion for thrashin' ! Oh sure, my missus likes the bling and the cash I find and accumulate. Well.. she takes an interest in the jewelery anyway, not that she'd want to wear it or anything... after all, usually it's mismatched or only one of a set.. you know what I mean. But the cash is different, she can ALWAYS find a use for that. Heck, just what I'd found this year, in a period of six months paid for our hotel stay on our last vacation back in September. <smile> I'm already well on my way to reaching that number again!.. though I don't think I'll make the same $ amount before the end of the year. Still though, it's a beginning on saving for the NEXT vacation in the spring.. <smile>
And as far as story telling goes.. well I guess it comes naturally. I do have a wee bit o' the Irish Blarney in me after all. That might explain my predisposition of favor towards the ladies with red hair and fair skin, green eyes, and all things golden! Fortunately I don't have the stereotypical taste for the drink though. Oh sure I enjoy a nice bottle of wine now and then, or a mixed drink occasionally.. even a nip of the good stuff in a rare occurrence, but every day drinking, or even drinking to excess is just not in me.
I save my addictions for other things.. like metal detecting or fishing.. <grin>


Happy Hunting all !!!


Frodov

 

[TN-Joe]

Frodov,
Great story, and a great find. BTW I love Apple Pie.
Joe

 

[Mike95inNJ]

Nice digs Frodov. Keep em coming.
HH, Mike in NJ

 

[ivy_walls]

WOW that is quite a haul...... you better hope that kids not part of the junior mafia !! enough said, i dont want to be implicated as an accomplice.
WTG !!!!

Mark

 

[GaryJ]

You should go into story writing. I really enjoyed your find. I bet you will remember that day for a long, long time.
GaryJ

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

Re: A Chilling discovery, Bones under the Bleachers and Bank Hiest Loot Recovere

Hey Frodov,
Get out the magnifying glass and check that 55. If it's a double
die, it's $$$. So, did you just stay on your knees all day? Finding
that much stuff, I don't see how you could have been standing much!
Good job!

HH Slabman

You don't need a magnifying glass for this one!

 

[ecastro111]

Great story You should write a book, even got the title, "Memoirs of a Coinshooter" :P

 

[Frodov]

Hmmmm.. I've been told many times before that I should take up writing.. that perhaps I should write a book. I've often joked that I was going to write a book.. a cook book! As that's one thing that sells like crazy even if the recipes are similar to ones other people come up with or invent or hand down from previous generations. Something for all the single guys out there who never really learned to cook but now find themselves in a position where they NEED to cook or live off of fast food. You guys know who you are.. but then there are some of the ladies that don't take Home 'Ecc in school too. What would I title it? Oh I don't know, I had thought about something along the line of "Cooking for Dummies" but I think that's been taken already. How about "How to NOT burn Water" or " A Hundred and One ways to Cook Ramen Noodles" " Recipes for Disaster" Nooooo.. that wouldn't be good. <chuckle>
As for writing a book about metal detecting, well... I'm still pretty much a rookie when you get right down to it. I mean I've only been doing this hobby for a little over 7 months now. What would I write about? "How to find a pull tab in one easy lesson" "How quarters are really just beer cans under the grass" <laughing> Oh I'm keeping stories in the back of mind. I may yet, someday, put word to paper..er.. computer screen, and do something with them. In the meantime however I just want to enjoy the hobby and of course share with my fellow enthusiasts. I'm happy to entertain you all in the process.
Thanks for reading! and HAPPY HUNTING!


Frodov

 

[sniffer]

Re: A Chilling discovery, Bones under the Bleachers and Bank Hiest Loot Recovere

hey Frodov, I don't know about you, But I've never met a apple pie that I didn't try to be friends with

 

[goldenapples]

Great reading that was, how about combining the two metal detecting and cooking in one simple book you could take your everyday recipes put your own twist on them with the fun story's we all have about our hobby on the off pages.

 

[James in Alabama]

Dude, you are the very best in describing not only what you've found, but how you actually go about finding the stuff. I've enjoyed reading all your posts to date. Now, let's find that third silver coin still waiting for your detector to come across

HH my friend......James


Oh, I almost forgot, "Go Kentucky Wildcats"!

 

[Raisinkain]

I wanted to say way to go on all of those coke reward points you found also a definate bonus :P

 

[Frodov]

Oh I have little interest in the coke reward points for the caps I find while metal detecting, save for the smile and gratitude I get from my wife who DOES value them. Val, my wife, puts in the maximum amount of caps allowed every day. Caps saved from our own use of coke products, caps saved by friends and coworkers, and the ones I find when I get out and about metal detecting. To date, she's gotten loads of music downloads, free movie tickets and ring tones for her phone. Currently Val's saving up for a giant teddy bear... did I mention that she has a thing for teddy bears? Yeah, she collects them as well, Boyd's bears, Stieff bears? Bear prints, teddy bears that is, teddy bear towels, teddy bear plates, teddy bear shirts, sweats, blankets... you get the idea. <grin> Oh yeah.. and ME! I'm her BIGGEST Teddy bear so far. <grin> I'm "Hubby Bear"


And there's always the plus of helping to clean up the park or tot lot or wherever I pick up the caps while I'm out and about metal detecting. I don't save the bottles when they're attached but I do make sure they are deposited in the nearest trash receptacle... along with cans and scrap and glass. Just doing my part.

Happy Hunting!

Floyd

 

[Colonial KirkPA]

Frodov, you are more entertaining than KirkPA. 8)

KirkPA

 

[SgtSki in MI]

Isn't a Shilling worth 12 Pence?