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Old 08-25-2011, 07:34 PM
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Default New Finds from a 1950's High School and a Playground

Today I went to an extremely small playground on mission hill for about an hour to start. I found a small patch of soil under the monkey bars and started scanning. Once I'd ground balanced my old machine, I managed to start pulling coin after coin! Nothing too old but by the end close to 2.50 in clad. I got tired of that park and walked up the street to an old highschool which was out of class for the summer. I believe it was built somewhere around 1950 but I could be wrong. I found some old benchs (by old I mean falling apart from rot) and proceeded to scan the entire area in my usual erratic, nonsensical manner. That's where I found the rest of the clad along with what looks like a door catch and another mysterious item. Any idea what I'm looking at here? There's also a jamaican (one dollar) and a canadian (1 cent) coin in the mix over to the right of the photo found at the playground.
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Old 08-25-2011, 08:04 PM
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Nice finds! Jamaican dollar? Man, all I find is zincolns! Get me outta this state!

Unfortunately, I can't tell exactly what the mystery item is.

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Old 08-25-2011, 10:45 PM
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That jamacian dollar is worth about a whole whopping penny.
Sorry, yah, they are very poor there, my brothers vacation there about once a year and bring back thousands of dollars (tens in american) its pretty bad.
Still a great find though considering you arent in jamaica

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