Back!

Its been a crazy summer here so I haven't been able to do as much metal detecting I would have liked. With a graduation, major surgery and getting the kid off to college behind me, I finally got out for two short hunts to get back in the swing of things.

Nothing spectacular to report, but a 1942 war nickle was a nice surprise! It was in decent shape too.























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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!


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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.

Sunday winter hunt

Today was sunny and beautiful near 50 degrees so I headed out to the middle school in the neighborhood. I spent about an hour there and found nothing to jump up and down about, some clad and the usual suspects..(my nail and pull tab buddies that follow me around when i hunt.) It was great to get outside on such a nice day. By the way, I have no idea what the "Quickie Manufacturing Corporation" makes...*

Tina

UPDATE: In 1950, Peter Vosbikian, Sr. invented the now-world famous Quickie Automatic Sponge Mop. The very first mop of its kind, it eliminated the mess and stress of hand wringing and bending – floor cleaning could be done Automatically. Its patented design and breakthrough mechanics were revolutionary and greatly appreciated by the marketplace. It was so successful that the Quickie Automatic Sponge Mop launched a whole new company: Quickie Manufacturing Corporation.

Happy New Year!

I told myself that one of my New Years resolutions would be to get out and metal detect more often, weather permitting. I did get out for about 30 minutes today in between rain storms. I hit a middle school that my son used to go to. It looks like a promising site with about 3 baseball fields and a big track with a football field. I hunted near the first ball field and picked up a little clad. I thought I had a nice ring for a second with a solid VDI of 45 but it winded up being a screw top. Dang!

Anyhow the school does look like a promising site to hunt and I will be returning once we get some dry weather.

Start Digging in 08!

Merry Christmas!

Have a safe and warm Holiday and a Happy New Years!

International Hunt

Today I did a short hunt today in a local park and came up with some interesting foreign coins. I found a Loon dollar from Canada, a 20 centavo coin from Mexico and two coins that look like they are from China. I found them all under the swing in the parks tot lot , some little kid must be quite the world traveler!
Updated: I found out the coin on the far left is a Japanese 10 Yen coin.

heres the flip side of the coins:

Beach Hunt

Sunday was a sports car kinda day here, partly sunny and rolling clouds. There was time for a short hunt at the saltwater beach at the Edmonds waterfront where I found two red hot wheels cars, one buried in the sand and one just out for a drive near the water. No kids around so I couldn't find the owner.













Above: Edmonds beach sand with lots of driftwood and pulltabs, not many coins there. I think people hit this beach regularly.














Looking for goodies under the sand. I needed to be using the 9.5 stock coil ideally for beach hunting but I had left it at home.

You sunk my battleship

The park seemed to fill up over the summer with more coins and interesting items, making my hunt a lot of fun. I found someones toy battleship under a tree and a spoon in the tot lot sand. The most exciting find was a silver or silver like ring right by the basketball court, it gave a loud strong signal as a quarter and VDIed at 84-85.

















There was plenty of clad near the swings and slides too!
All in all a good day.

Park Pin

Quick hunt under the old trees that I did a week ago, just didn't get around to posting the finds, pretty meager this time around. The pin was for a baseball club in Bothell, found back of the pin first and then the front in two different spots.

Beach Hunting

In July I took the MXT on vacation with me to visit the family in Ohio. I really didn't get many chances to do a lot of detecting as I had a full schedule of family activities to attend.
I did have a chance to hit the beach by Fairport Harbor one day for about an hour.
















Some clad coins and a 1944 war nickel was the find of the day. I don't know how the pink pig got there. The beach was very clean there, I was surprised I didn't find more pull tabs and foil. It was a beautiful sunny day and I was happy to be able to hunt in Ohio.

Money Creek

The family went off on a little exploration jaunt on Friday the thirteenth, luckily no black cats or ladders impeded our progress to Money Creek high in the Cascade mountains.

We were out looking for a spot on the creek to relax and get away from the busy traffic nest of swarming latte-sipping ants that the Seattle area has become. Ahh, peace and beauty in the mountains awaited us. My husband and son decided they would out do the Strongest man in the world and pushed a huge boulder into the creek, the momentum kept it going forward till it reached the middle of the creek. Well done men!

Meanwhile I had the MXT in a small camping area, lots of rifle casings and pull tabs, I did find a small penny spill of 8 cents were a tent was pitched. I only hunted for 15 minutes or so as the mosquitoes were brutal!

Tonight my son and I are flying off to visit the family in Ohio and the MXT is coming along to find Ohio treasures!

Happy Fourth of July

Happy Birthday America~!

First Wheat Cent in June!

I haven't had time to do much hunting lately, but today I finally got out for a hour at the local park. The Tot Lot was a disappointment, nothing much there but hair pins and foil. I then found a license plate holder in the turf area, it reads "Arlington Wa" ..Interesting...but nothing to make me cheer...

I put plan B into effect, which was checking out the old trees in the grassy area next to the tennis courts. I figured people had rested under these shady giants for many years. I was using my smaller coil for trashy areas and sure enough I started getting decent signals. I found what I called "the Penny Tree" an old grizzled popular with large roots that seemed to have a penny or two every few feet. I got a nice beep right next to a large gnarly root and started digging about 4 inches into the mulch, imagine my surprise when I found a 1941 wheat penny, my very first wheatie and oldest coin so far as a metal detecting beginner. Looks like I need to get out more often!

New Park Hunt June 12

Today I did a 90 minute hunt at a new park I found with Google earth. I decided to do a quick sweep of the tot lot and under some old trees to see if anything made the MXT beep with happiness. I found quiet a few pennies and dimes in the tot lot and quarters and zincs under the tree. I did find a tiny key and a star in the wood chips while the bracelet was found next to a tree trunk laying right on the surface.

I did find my first Canadian nickels and a 1953 nickel, that was interesting. The park was pretty empty, I basically had it all to myself on a nice sunny day.

I noticed the batteries on the MXT were reading 9 (12 is a full charge, 8 is low) I have had the same batteries in use since December so they lasted pretty long, the next time I put new batteries in I am going to keep track of the time, Whites says you should be able to get 40 hours out of a battery pack, we'll see if thats true.

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Watch those Watches!

Today I got out to do a short hunt at two different parks, spent about an hour at each park. The funny thing was I found a watch at each park. I found the charm bracelet watch in the tot lot area right near the slide laying right on top the wood chips. No beeping involved. Most of the clad I found today was on the top also so not too much digging today! Watch those watches kids!

May First Finds

Its been a while since I've posted. I finally got to get out today and hit the local park for an hour and a half. It was nice to be metal detecting again and I found some junk jewelry and some clad coins. The park was empty most of the time I was there and I found most of the coins around the basketball court. It was great to be outdoors hunting for treasure!

Short Hunt

I had time for a short hunt at the local park. I found a handful of clad coins. Funny thing was, I found seven of the pennies in the same spot, all with in a few inches of each other. Remember to re check your hole as there can be more then one target in there! I do recommend a pin-pointer to help you local targets in the dirt. I will post info on pin-pointers in a separate post.

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Picnic Point Beach Finds

I hit the county park Picnic Point, a saltwater beach, a few days ago. Not a whole lot there to my surprise. I did join the sinker club with my first fishing sinker found oddly enough far away from the shore in the grass. And the butter knife found near the water and not by the picnic tables! One interesting note is the saltwater changed the MXT readings of the corroded zinc pennies to "screw top bottle cap" instead of zinc cent. As usual the MXT preformed admirably on the beach with out a lot of chatter noise.