I stopped in and renewed my mding permit for 2019 so I'm starting a new year. I am posting (I think) 2 photos of my more keepable finds and my coins. I ended the year with 667 coins. 419 pennies,(including 17 wheats oldest being a 1918) 29 nickels (no buffaloes), 123 dimes, 75 quarters, 12 half dollars,2 1dollar coins and 1 pice (coin of India).
my finds for 2018
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woodbutcher
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That gun is pretty cool,,and that’s a lot of half dollars,I only found one clad half ever..congrats on the seasons finds
arw40
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Congrats on a season of finds. Nice clad total and assortment of others....HH !
face value
I forgot to say the face value of the coins is $44.72. Kind of paltry alongside a lot but I'm learning. I actually found 11 of the half dollars in a very small area and they were all surface finds. We think they were spread out at a kids birthday party for the tots to find and these were what they missed. The gun is a Daisy no. 80 squirt gun and it actually works (after a lot of cleaning and oiling). The rusty looking lump in the picture I believe might be a meteorite. I found it the morning after the perseid meteor shower. I saw a crater about the diameter of a basketball in the sand box of a playground and it gave a good iron signal when I checked it. I had to dig down as far as my trowel would go before I retrieved it. It is very attracted to a magnet and it may be zilcho but I have my hopes. I just went on my first hunt of the year and got 2 lincolns and a dime. I had to leave a lot of good signals because the ground is frozen in so many places.
I forgot to say the face value of the coins is $44.72. Kind of paltry alongside a lot but I'm learning. I actually found 11 of the half dollars in a very small area and they were all surface finds. We think they were spread out at a kids birthday party for the tots to find and these were what they missed. The gun is a Daisy no. 80 squirt gun and it actually works (after a lot of cleaning and oiling). The rusty looking lump in the picture I believe might be a meteorite. I found it the morning after the perseid meteor shower. I saw a crater about the diameter of a basketball in the sand box of a playground and it gave a good iron signal when I checked it. I had to dig down as far as my trowel would go before I retrieved it. It is very attracted to a magnet and it may be zilcho but I have my hopes. I just went on my first hunt of the year and got 2 lincolns and a dime. I had to leave a lot of good signals because the ground is frozen in so many places.
3.14R8
Elite Member
Nice totals.
Where are you at that requires a permit to metal detect?
Where are you at that requires a permit to metal detect?
Foragist
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Nice show of goods Bounder. Weren't you the guy that found the first McD's Big Mac coin too? That was big time! 
Put that permit to work this year!
Put that permit to work this year!
jack&jill
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A pretty nice year of returns Bounder. Congrats! Trapper
cellrdwellr
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Hard to argue with a free big mac though! Great season, and good luck in 2019!
