tnt-hunter
Bronze Member
- Apr 20, 2018
- 1,791
- 9,169
- 🏆 Honorable Mentions:
- 9
- Detector(s) used
- Fisher CZ-21, Minelab Equinix 800, ,Garret AT Pro,
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
I went back to a permission I got from the guy who installed my new water system. I spent 4.5 hours swingin the CZ21 in his yard. I didn’t get a lot done because the ground is very rocky most places and I was digging all the mid and high tones to be sure I didn’t miss anything good as I gridded the yard. I started in the front and then went along the edge of the road and worked my way around the back for a little walk around before I left. The front had a lot of trash, but the back was remarkably quiet. Not even a lot of ferrous signals.
All together I found 78 coins with a face value of $4.33 (including a recent 22 coin spill right on top of the dirt under the grass), a pentagonal bolt (used on water shut off caps locally), 2 Corbin locks, the bottom of a lipstick tube (ANGELUS ROUGE INCARNAT) from the late 30’s, part of a satchel latch, 2 wheaties, a walking half, an older style kiddie ring with a broken glass stone, a dozen aluminum beer cans, and of course tabs and miscellaneous junk.
The walking half was right by the edge of the road. It was in some roots mixed in with some gravel. I was sure it was probably an aluminum can and almost gave up on it. I was shocked and thrilled when I saw it was big silver. When I popped of the dirt I was very happy. The walking half is such a beautiful coin. It is a 1945 from the Philadelphia mint. It was mixed in with a bunch of gravel and I thought it would be beat up for sure, but it only has a few minor scratches and looks nice. It made my day.
I made a couple of trips to the scout camp. On the first trip I spent 6.5 hours trying to finish a campsite. I found 107 coins with a face value of $7.78, 77 camp tent pegs, a stainless fork, spoon and half a knife (the stainless spoon is very poor stainless and was deep under some roots so it has been there a long time), lots of sinkers, a folded dime, a padlock key, a hat pin back, 2 rope tensioners, some tabs, a lot of melted aluminum, 2 dead knives and one of the pipes used to make old metal army cots into bunk beds.
I do find springs from the old army cots and occasionally part of one of the metal straps that support the link grid used as the main part of the cot sleeping surface. I recognize these parts because I have owned a couple of them and we used them at several camps I have attended in my time as a scout and scouter.
On my second trip I went to a different site hoping for a better day. I had started this site a while back and it went pretty well so I had high hopes. I did well enough that I decided to try out the staff area for the last 45 minutes. They have removed the old tent platforms and are building new ones. The new ones are mostly done and they are placed differently than the original ones so some parts of the site have 40 years of lost coins that fell through the cracks in the floor boards and were not accessible until now. It was a good choice, I found 50 of my coins in that 45 minutes so I plan on returning to that area soon.
In 6 hours I found 203 coins with a face value of $18.65, 82 camp tent pegs, a rope tensioner, a neckerchief slide, a hiking belt loop, a swim tag, sinkers, a belt knife clip, a pocket knife, an Eagle Scout bolo tie, very few tabs and some melted aluminum from the campfires.
The swim tag is one of my favorite types of finds from camp and came from the staff site. I have only found 5 or 6 since 2013 when I started detecting here. They are season swim pass tags from different boroughs around Pittsburgh that you would pin to your swimsuit for your admission to the pool. This is my oldest, 1982. The camp didn’t open until 1980 so this is about as early as it gets unless you are on a section occupied by the old farm that was here first.
I had to take part of a day to work on the honeydo list, but I got 2.5 hours in the afternoon to visit one of the tot lots in town. I found a few coins on the lot, but I noticed they had cleared some wild rose bushes and heavy brush in the corner where I found hundreds of coins left from the kiddie pool sawdust hunt so I headed over there and dug a nice pile of pennies and dimes with 1 quarter and some nickels for good measure. As I was swingin on my way back to the truck I got an good iffy signal in the grass by the parking lot and decided to dig it. Out came a Mercury dime. You just have to keep swingin and dig those iffy signals. They are usually junk, but oh it is nice when they aren’t.
All together I found 82 coins with a face value of $5.21. A little trash, but not much on this hunt. The Mercury dime is a 1924. The poor thing has had a rough life and is kind of beat up, but she was a welcome sight to me. The thing beside the dime looks like some kind of clothing embellishment. From the fastening on the back and it’s condition I believe it is modern junk, but it was the only other noteworthy find for the hunt.
I had such good luck at the scout camp I decided to end my detecting year with one last trip and I went back to the staff site. I worked my way carefully around the site trying to be sure I didn’t miss anything good. I was even able to get the detector under the sides of some of the platforms because they are up on blocks on the side of a hill so the downhill side is 18” above the ground on some of them. In some places the coins were so close together with a few nails and other trash it was difficult to isolate a target. I had to work very slowly and in 6 hours I got about 75% finished the tiny area.
All together I managed to find 274 coins with a face value of $19.78 (168 pennies), 25 camp tent pegs (platform tents do not use pegs so not many here), a stainless fork, 3 good scout knives, 1 dead knife, 2 rope tensioners, a live 22 round, a cheapie kiddy ring, a hat pin from another camp, 2 keys, 3 tokens, a large crescent wrench, on old folding shovel and assorted nails and screws.
These 2 tokens are ones I have never seen before. The big one actually has a spinner in the center. The Camp Seth Mack hat pin is from a camp that opened in 1934. The old Penns Woods Council formed in 1970 and was renamed in a merger in 2011.
So ends my 19th year of detecting. 2 silvers to end my almost month long drought and a big pile of clad to make this my best year ever for total face value of coins found. The scout camp also has continued to produce interesting items. I will post my year statistics soon, but I exceeded my past best total by over $200. What a year. You can see why we love this hobby. Fresh air, exercise, interesting stuff popping out of the ground and we get paid (in coins) to do it. Thanks for looking, stay safe and may your coil lead you to good things.
All together I found 78 coins with a face value of $4.33 (including a recent 22 coin spill right on top of the dirt under the grass), a pentagonal bolt (used on water shut off caps locally), 2 Corbin locks, the bottom of a lipstick tube (ANGELUS ROUGE INCARNAT) from the late 30’s, part of a satchel latch, 2 wheaties, a walking half, an older style kiddie ring with a broken glass stone, a dozen aluminum beer cans, and of course tabs and miscellaneous junk.
The walking half was right by the edge of the road. It was in some roots mixed in with some gravel. I was sure it was probably an aluminum can and almost gave up on it. I was shocked and thrilled when I saw it was big silver. When I popped of the dirt I was very happy. The walking half is such a beautiful coin. It is a 1945 from the Philadelphia mint. It was mixed in with a bunch of gravel and I thought it would be beat up for sure, but it only has a few minor scratches and looks nice. It made my day.
I made a couple of trips to the scout camp. On the first trip I spent 6.5 hours trying to finish a campsite. I found 107 coins with a face value of $7.78, 77 camp tent pegs, a stainless fork, spoon and half a knife (the stainless spoon is very poor stainless and was deep under some roots so it has been there a long time), lots of sinkers, a folded dime, a padlock key, a hat pin back, 2 rope tensioners, some tabs, a lot of melted aluminum, 2 dead knives and one of the pipes used to make old metal army cots into bunk beds.
I do find springs from the old army cots and occasionally part of one of the metal straps that support the link grid used as the main part of the cot sleeping surface. I recognize these parts because I have owned a couple of them and we used them at several camps I have attended in my time as a scout and scouter.
On my second trip I went to a different site hoping for a better day. I had started this site a while back and it went pretty well so I had high hopes. I did well enough that I decided to try out the staff area for the last 45 minutes. They have removed the old tent platforms and are building new ones. The new ones are mostly done and they are placed differently than the original ones so some parts of the site have 40 years of lost coins that fell through the cracks in the floor boards and were not accessible until now. It was a good choice, I found 50 of my coins in that 45 minutes so I plan on returning to that area soon.
In 6 hours I found 203 coins with a face value of $18.65, 82 camp tent pegs, a rope tensioner, a neckerchief slide, a hiking belt loop, a swim tag, sinkers, a belt knife clip, a pocket knife, an Eagle Scout bolo tie, very few tabs and some melted aluminum from the campfires.
The swim tag is one of my favorite types of finds from camp and came from the staff site. I have only found 5 or 6 since 2013 when I started detecting here. They are season swim pass tags from different boroughs around Pittsburgh that you would pin to your swimsuit for your admission to the pool. This is my oldest, 1982. The camp didn’t open until 1980 so this is about as early as it gets unless you are on a section occupied by the old farm that was here first.
I had to take part of a day to work on the honeydo list, but I got 2.5 hours in the afternoon to visit one of the tot lots in town. I found a few coins on the lot, but I noticed they had cleared some wild rose bushes and heavy brush in the corner where I found hundreds of coins left from the kiddie pool sawdust hunt so I headed over there and dug a nice pile of pennies and dimes with 1 quarter and some nickels for good measure. As I was swingin on my way back to the truck I got an good iffy signal in the grass by the parking lot and decided to dig it. Out came a Mercury dime. You just have to keep swingin and dig those iffy signals. They are usually junk, but oh it is nice when they aren’t.
All together I found 82 coins with a face value of $5.21. A little trash, but not much on this hunt. The Mercury dime is a 1924. The poor thing has had a rough life and is kind of beat up, but she was a welcome sight to me. The thing beside the dime looks like some kind of clothing embellishment. From the fastening on the back and it’s condition I believe it is modern junk, but it was the only other noteworthy find for the hunt.
I had such good luck at the scout camp I decided to end my detecting year with one last trip and I went back to the staff site. I worked my way carefully around the site trying to be sure I didn’t miss anything good. I was even able to get the detector under the sides of some of the platforms because they are up on blocks on the side of a hill so the downhill side is 18” above the ground on some of them. In some places the coins were so close together with a few nails and other trash it was difficult to isolate a target. I had to work very slowly and in 6 hours I got about 75% finished the tiny area.
All together I managed to find 274 coins with a face value of $19.78 (168 pennies), 25 camp tent pegs (platform tents do not use pegs so not many here), a stainless fork, 3 good scout knives, 1 dead knife, 2 rope tensioners, a live 22 round, a cheapie kiddy ring, a hat pin from another camp, 2 keys, 3 tokens, a large crescent wrench, on old folding shovel and assorted nails and screws.
These 2 tokens are ones I have never seen before. The big one actually has a spinner in the center. The Camp Seth Mack hat pin is from a camp that opened in 1934. The old Penns Woods Council formed in 1970 and was renamed in a merger in 2011.
So ends my 19th year of detecting. 2 silvers to end my almost month long drought and a big pile of clad to make this my best year ever for total face value of coins found. The scout camp also has continued to produce interesting items. I will post my year statistics soon, but I exceeded my past best total by over $200. What a year. You can see why we love this hobby. Fresh air, exercise, interesting stuff popping out of the ground and we get paid (in coins) to do it. Thanks for looking, stay safe and may your coil lead you to good things.
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