Penny day on campus ends my year

tnt-hunter

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I just finished my 17th year of detecting. I am a little different and do not go by calendar years but by actual years. I started detecting May 2, 2002 so my years end April 30. This year was my second best year money wise. I found $851.68 in coins. My first year I only found $226.07. 2 years ago I had my best year with $1232.80.

My last hunt was on campus and it was a real penny kind of day. The section I started in I couldn’t swing the coin more than 2 times without a coin signal and sometimes I had 2 or 3 hits in the same swing. Unfortunately most of the signals were pennies. In 4.5 hours I dug 197 coins and 164 of them were pennies and most of those were zincs. Nothing special just coins and the usual junk. I was detecting up among the buildings on campus and away from the sport fields for a change and a number of people asked what I was finding. I did get 2 leads that might lead to some future good finds. The first was a student who lost an important family ring during a snowball fight on campus. He threw the snowball and the ring went too. I gave me a rough idea of where it was lost and I got his name and number so I can return it if I get lucky.

The next was an older student (in his 40s) who asked for my card. He has a house about 12 miles east of campus that was built in the early 1800s and he has been looking for someone to detect the property. He is curious about what might come out of the ground and I have no problem sharing my finds. He says the property was used as a business and farm so there is a lot of potential. But you don’t know until you start swingin.

I will post a year end summary of my finds as soon as I can put the statistics together. I have everything in my log book, I just have to count things up.

Thanks for looking and may your coil lead you to good things.
 

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MrBlueSkyNM

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Man that's an amazing amount of metal detecting! :notworthy:
 

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Great job grats on all the years detecting .Here at the U OF M many places I get a coin every swing literally I want the silver the old coins Plus dont want to dig 200 holes in a public place just me Good job on all the clad
 

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Thats a lot of digging ! Good luck on your 2 new potential places.
 

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Congrats on 17 years in this awesome hobby! Sounds like you have two interesting prospects, best of luck!
 

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So you are digging on a college campus and no one ran you off or called the police? Nice job that takes a lot of nerve though.
 

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Wow! I hope most of the coins were dollar coins or halves! lol. Man that's a lot of holes. Great exercise! Congrats! :icon_thumleft:
 

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Good Luck on the new site! :occasion14:
 

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tnt-hunter

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So you are digging on a college campus and no one ran you off or called the police? Nice job that takes a lot of nerve though.

No nerve required. I got permission before I went and checked in with the campus security when I started the permission and gave them my card. They know who I am and that all holes are filled and looking like I wasn’t there. I also pick up trash and take it all with me. Security stops by sometimes and asks if I am having any luck. They asked that I stay off the baseball field and I do.

Get the permission, follow the guidelines set by the owner or caretaker and be neat and friendly and it’s not a problem.
 

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