My take was nice, but I won the $112.00 after spending $30 in a blackjack contest. The silver eagle was also won by digging a token in one of the hunts. The big bummer was that of the 3 hunts, only one had coins that you could actually keep.
Hunt one was where most of what you see came from.
Hunt two was a claim jumper hunt where each person picked two targets and they got those two only. Then 10 lucky folks got to clean out the rest of the area, so that hunt, for most, was horrible.
Hunt three was a painted penny hunt, so while I found 48 coins, they were painted memorials as opposed to silver dimes/quarters other years. Then I turned in those 48 coins and it netted me 12 silvers. In years past, all hunts included items that were finders keepers and netted me more than double what you see here from this year. MARS always puts on a great hunt and it was fun, but the value this year wasn't there compared to the last few years and silver spot was lower this year.
