Not really my best but who's going to argue?

[Edward Lopez]

Frank Sinatra had nothing on me in 1991 for "It Was A Very Good Year" for me. I began THing in August 1979 in L.A. under treasure-meister Roy Roush, and I have a certificate! In 1987 my wife and I returned to NYC to a coop 1/2 a block from Central Park so CP became my main hunting grounds during the '90s. At that time I didn't know it was illegal to TH there and the only signs in park entrances were aimed at bicycle riders and I was never approached by a park Ranger. Occasionally, I would see other detectorists singly and in groups. So I was in the park 28 days in 1991, usually for up to 5 hours at a time. Below is a listing of my finds as I entered them in my calendar diary. I didn't always specify what I found so the list could have been longer. I took the color photo 6 months after I started with a White's COINMASTER 6/DB. Only the photo with silver coins represents some of what I found which continued to be repeated every year mainly with my trusty, ol' Teknetics Mark I Ltd. Oh, happy days!

1. 2 non-working watches, old PAL medallion, Roos
2. 1934 25¢
3. 1917 10¢, '46 & '64 Roos
4. 1917S & '36 10¢
5. 1907 25¢
6. 2 MTA tokens, 2 Bison 5¢, 1950 Roos, wheats 1918 to 1955, over $9 clad
7. $1.00 clad
8. 1896 Barber 25¢, 1925 & '27 S.L. 25¢, over $5 clad
9. 1944 25¢, AA medallion, NYC Police Dept large medallion, over $3 clad
10. 18K wedding band, over $23 clad
11. 1964 25¢, 1906S 10¢, '42 & '45 10¢, wheats, Colonel Silver Wings
12. 1944 10¢, '46 & '61 Roos, Canadian 1920 1¢, 1880 & 1907 Indian Head 1¢, lots of wheats
13. 1941 25¢, clads
14. 1943 25¢, '44 Mercury 10¢, '55 Roos, silver pin
15. 1909 & '12D Barber 10¢, 2 silver rings
16. 1918 & '43 Mercs 10¢, '46/'63/'64 Roos, lots of wheats, silver ring with violet stone, over $10 clad
17. 1947 Roos, over $2 clad
18. 5 Mercs, silver pin, King Tut pendant, wheats, token, over $12 clad
19. 1898 & 1910 Barber 25¢, 2 Mercs, 1 Roos, gold chain, 1910 medal with swastika
20. 2 Mercs, 1950 Canadian 5¢, 1944D war 5¢, bison 5¢, wheats
21. $11 clad
22. 8 tokens, 1935 Merc, 1957 25¢, approx. $31 clad
23. 1 Roos, 1 bison 5¢, 1943 war 5¢, 26 wheats, 1 pound UK coin, button
24. 1920 & '41 Mercs, 1905 I.H. 1¢, 1 bison 5¢, 32 early wheats, over $8 clad
25. 1940 25¢, 2 '44 Mercs, '61 Roos, over $3 clad
26. 1942 & 1945 W.L. 50¢, 1892 Barber 10¢, '45 Merc, '57 25¢, catholic sterling cross, WAR OF CIVILIZATION medal
27. 1945 Merc, '62 Roos, over $6 clad
28. 1940D & '52 Roos, over $2 clad

 

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[Steve in PA]

Nice piles of treasure. Do you still have it?

 

[lairmo]

I say we should get an enormous hoard of detectorists and just hit CP in one day! If any park rangers ask we just tell them it's legal now. When they see the number of guys in the park they'll HAVE to believe it...lol

 

[Edward Lopez]

Nice piles of treasure. Do you still have it?

No, I cashed out many years ago, every year. I used to have many coffee cans filled with clads, got a coin cleaner and went to the bank and I sold my gold/silver jewelry on 48th St., the diamond district.

 

[Edward Lopez]

I say we should get an enormous hoard of detectorists and just hit CP in one day! If any park rangers ask we just tell them it's legal now. When they see the number of guys in the park they'll HAVE to believe it...lol

You'll need lol! First, they'll ask you for ID. Second, they'll ask you to leave the park/. Third, probably issue summons. Fourth, maybe confiscate your detector. Chances are you'll deal first with a mounted Ranger/policeman who'll call for motorized backup to haul equipment away. After I found out THing was illegal, when I used to spot 'em from a distance, I would make myself less visible by sitting on the grass along with hundred others. One day, I saw mounted cops leaving deep hooves cavities in the mud and I gave chase yelling at them to stop. They galloped a distance and one of the 2 left the female cop behind and I confronted her and told her how I felt about them enforcing the regs while they were guilty of doing more damage than I ever could with just my fiberglass probe. I wrote an article about it ("Official Damage") for Treasure Facts magazine (14 articles).

 

[Davers]

Nice Scores.

 

[A2coins]

Wow your a true treasure hunter Thanks for posting all those amazing finds I love this hobby so much and all the freakin cool stuff we find Keep rippin my friend. Tommy