Short hunt in a Small Local Park nets 1/2 Roll of QUARTERS and a Mardi Gras TOKEN

wlb42 · Mar 11, 2020

Found 47 total clad coins - 20-quarters, 16-dimes, 1-nickel & 10-pennies for a $-total of $6.75, but not bad for a short hunt in small city park that I had not been to for 2 or 3 years. Interesting Mardi Gras TOKEN will be added to my numerous "token collection" I have accumulated over many years. Thanks for looking & GOOD LUCK & HH to all.........BILL

Hogtown Hunter · Mar 11, 2020

Nice finds. I live in Florida also. In the city where I live they have codes about no metal detecting at all in city parks. Checked with the county and they said you can detect but no digging. So just surface searching. Called a neighboring county I spend a lot of time in and there is no detecting in their parks. I see all these posts on here about looking in parks

Do we have a bunch of stick in the mud commissioners or do yall just take your chance at it?

wlb42 · Mar 11, 2020

Hogtown Hunter said:
Nice finds. I live in Florida also. In the city where I live they have codes about no metal detecting at all in city parks. Checked with the county and they said you can detect but no digging. So just surface searching. Called a neighboring county I spend a lot of time in and there is no detecting in their parks. I see all these posts on here about looking in parks Do we have a bunch of stick in the mud commissioners or do yall just take your chance at it?

Hey, HH - Good question, and here is a recent link from the "Legal Beagle" site that explains that FLORIDA is very receptive & lenient in the "hobby & recreational metal detecting of beaches & city & county parks, but can vary by city or county - maybe this will help: https://legalbeagle.com/7219970-florida-laws-metal-detecting.html

Trezurehunter · Mar 12, 2020

Nice stack of Quarters, and I like that token.

Georgivs · Mar 12, 2020

Hogtown Hunter said:
Nice finds. I live in Florida also. In the city where I live they have codes about no metal detecting at all in city parks. Checked with the county and they said you can detect but no digging. So just surface searching. Called a neighboring county I spend a lot of time in and there is no detecting in their parks. I see all these posts on here about looking in parks Do we have a bunch of stick in the mud commissioners or do yall just take your chance at it?

I was told by a friend who works for the county that MDing in parks is fine and the head of the department is an avid detectorist. However last week I was going to work in a city a few counties over and wanted to check out some of their parks. I went on library.municode.com and checked out their parks codes. Two sentences basically no drinking and no shooting guns/fireworks. Nothing about detecting at all. (BTW found a handful of clad and a coronet mouthpiece that day)

While i was there I checked my town. OMFG there was an ordnance on the books from 2013 prohibiting detecting in all parks! Not even my buddy in the parks department knew about it. I've been breaking the law for years! lock me up officer! Looking into it it is punishable by a $50 ticket and being kicked out of the park. So what do I do? Go the rich mans route and flout the law and pay the fine if I get caught? Abandon my favorite detecting spots? Go ask for special permission from the parks commissioner? Does the ordnance matter if it's never enforced and not even the parks crews know about it?

Hogtown Hunter · Mar 12, 2020

I did the same thing Georgivs. Went to a far corner of a local park away from the crowds. Found a couple dozen coins in about 45min. It hadn't been detected in years. Got home and looked up city park ordinances. It doesn't specifically say no metal detecting. But says no disturbing the ground. When I called the city they were the ones that said no metal detecting at all.