Leap day finds

I returned to the park I hit yesterday as the day was warm and very spring-like weather. I hit the area around the basketball courts again and seemed to find zinc pennies every foot or so. I found six dimes too but mainly pennies. A couple of the corroded pennies were VDI ing at bottle cap numbers because of the dissolving action on the penny.

Heres a few pictures of the park:













This is the basketball court looking west.














Swings in woodchips and the baseball fields behind it.













I found most of the coins in a 2 foot band around the courts, seemed like I
dug a penny every foot or so...now if they were just quarters!


Start Digging !

End of Feburary Hunt

Did a hunt at a new park that I had never been to before. It is a large 40 acre park with 22 acres developed and rest forest. I only spent a short hour there scouting out the areas and it looks like a very promising spot. There are basketball courts, ballfields and a concession stand along with the usual wood chip play areas. I ended up with 73 cents and a lost costume jewelry bauble. I also added the Sac dollar I found earlier this week at a different park. I also gave my new pin pointer a good test and it passed with flying colors. All in all a pretty good hunt on a sunny afternoon.

First Sac Dollar Coin

I finally got out for a quick 45 minute hunt today at my local park. There was a spring like feel in the air and the park was pretty empty except for a three year old and his grandma on the tot swings. I had the MXT out not more then five minutes when a got a solid quarter hit VDI at 82. It wasn't a quarter that was laying on the wood chips, it was my first Sacagawea Dollar coin.

The Sacagawea dollar coin issued by the United States Mint depicts Sacagawea and her son, Jean Baptiste. The face on the coin was modeled on a modern Shoshone woman named Randy'L He-dow Teton; no contemporary image of Sacagawea exists.