HS FOOTBALL FIELD FINDS

[Swanie1]

I got the urge to go metal detecting, this afternoon, so drove about 15 miles to a small town to check out it's HS foodball field. Normally, they keep it locked up when school is not in session but I got lucky and the gate was open. I pulled in and got out my Garrett 2500 GTI detector and proceeded to hunt around the perimeter of the field and around the refreshment stand, etc. I couldn't walk three feet before I had to dig coins and they, mostly, were quarters. In three hours I dug up 54 clad quarters, a 1943 Washington quarter, a "no date" standing liberty quarter, 20 clad dimes, 2 nickles, and 20 memorial cents. It started to get dark enough that I couldn't see what I was digging or my finds would have been greater. I'll have to go back another weekend, if the gate is open. Not bad for three hours hunting.

 

[TreasureTales]

Great haul of coinage. Your timing at the school was perfect!

 

[goldencoin]

Wow, thats a lot of quarters!

HH
-GC

 

[trubl1096]

Nice, man what a find.

 

[Snee]

If you so much as step on the football field in my town (let alone digging holes in it), any time of the year, and you're not a football player, you would probably be shot down dead by the football coach. I'm only half-kidding. :P

 

[romeo-1]

You've got a potential silver mine there...keep hitting it!

 

[Salvager]

Great buch of coins.
I hope they keep coming for you!!
Have fun,
Salvager

 

[dfxmatt]

Good finds sir

 

[mlw67]

Wow! Quarterama! Nice digs!

 

[Postalrevnant]

Great hunts. Very nice pile of quarters. And of course not one one but 2 silver ones SLQ included. That is very awesome.

Congratulations,

Postalrevnant

 

[renegade_7]

If you can get the trash and clad out of the way, there might be some more silver there. Nice finds.....

 

[Swanie1]

Well, I made it back to the High School football field, today. I thought that I had done well the first time that I was there as shown in my original post, but, today, I popped up 84 clad quarters, 23 clad dimes, and 18 memorial cents. I was digging quarters so fast that I passed over many dimes and pennies and just ID'd the quarters on my screen. I didn't find silver, this time. The gates to this field are, usually, locked when school isn't in session which accounts for the bountiful supply of coins. Today, there was a basketball tournament so the gates were open and I slipped in to the football field area for about 3 1/2 hours. All of the knee bends about wore me out.

 

[TreasureTales]

You've got a great honey hole there. Congrats.

 

[dahut]

Clad ahoy! DO like we told you before - cut a hole in the fence and keep it closed with zip-ties so no one notices...

 

[Swanie1]

They always say "3rd time is a charm" so, today, I drove the 15 miles to the High School football field to see what I might have missed the other two times. I don't remember when I have hunted a place so full of quarters. It's like someone walked around the area throwing quarters and other coins onto the ground. Today, I popped up 57 clad quarters, 6 clad dimes, and 12 memorial cents but no silver. I hunted for about three hours. I think that I may be getting the area "skimmed". The snow is gone, here, and the ground is good for digging coins.

 

[TreasureTales]

Swanie1, what a great 3rd haul from that field!!! Congrats. How deep are these coins on average? Does your detector find deeper stuff, maybe the silver is deeper? How old is the field?

 

[popcorn]

nice coins where is that foot ball field

 

[Dave N Japan]

WTG...Great Finds!

 

[Ed-NH]

Way to go on those finds. Gotta love quantity sometimes even if they are clad! That SLQ is a sweet one too.

 

[texan connection]

Dang it, that gate must have been locked for years, super bunch of clad and some silver also, Wow

 

[Swanie1]

The temperature got up to 49 degrees, today, so I decided to drive down to the High School football field to see what I may have missed on my three other visits. I thought that I had pretty well skimmed the area, but I was wrong!!!! This place is what I would call "quarter heaven". I couldn't believe just how many coins, especially quarters, that I was popping out of the ground. I found all of this in areas that I had, previously, been over. It goes to show you that you don't hit every square inch when you hunt an area. Today, I found 83 clad quarters, 41 clad dimes, 3 nickles, and 13 memorial cents. In four trips, there, I have dug a total of 438 coins of which 278 were quarters.