KYshooter
Elite Member
I know this isn't exactly metal detecting, but ... I have a unique source of coin treasures.
I am the pastor of a church. Every summer during our Vacation Bible School for kids, we take up a week-long offering for a missions project. For instance, last summer the kids' gifts paid for veterinary supplies for a team serving in Peru. This summer, their offerings bought chickens for families in Africa through Samaritan's Purse. We kind of make it a competition thing ... boys against the girls. The kids really get into it. Every day we weigh buckets with their offerings. It's all in great fun, and all for a great cause. For the past two years the kids gave over $600 to help people in other countries.
A couple of summers ago, I spotted a silver dime in one of the buckets when we made our daily trip to the bank (it has a coin counter ... awesome). I quickly grabbed it and dropped a dime out of my pocket into the bucket. I realized that there was truly no telling what these kids were dropping in the buckets each day.
So ... since then I have carefully checked these buckets full of change before redeeming them at the bank each day. If I see a coin that's a keeper, I replace it at face value ... after all, that's all the bank would give us for it.
Over the past three summers I've salvaged several collectible US coins and a plethora of foreign coins (even a few Chucky Cheese tokens ... aren't kids great?!!).
Here's a picture of the keepers. My silvers are on the left, including three war nickels. I've found one buff, several wheaties (including two 1943 steels) and many, many pre-1959 Jeffersons.
Pretty cool, huh? And it might get a few of you to volunteer to work in VBS in your churches next year.
I am the pastor of a church. Every summer during our Vacation Bible School for kids, we take up a week-long offering for a missions project. For instance, last summer the kids' gifts paid for veterinary supplies for a team serving in Peru. This summer, their offerings bought chickens for families in Africa through Samaritan's Purse. We kind of make it a competition thing ... boys against the girls. The kids really get into it. Every day we weigh buckets with their offerings. It's all in great fun, and all for a great cause. For the past two years the kids gave over $600 to help people in other countries.
A couple of summers ago, I spotted a silver dime in one of the buckets when we made our daily trip to the bank (it has a coin counter ... awesome). I quickly grabbed it and dropped a dime out of my pocket into the bucket. I realized that there was truly no telling what these kids were dropping in the buckets each day.
So ... since then I have carefully checked these buckets full of change before redeeming them at the bank each day. If I see a coin that's a keeper, I replace it at face value ... after all, that's all the bank would give us for it.
Over the past three summers I've salvaged several collectible US coins and a plethora of foreign coins (even a few Chucky Cheese tokens ... aren't kids great?!!).
Here's a picture of the keepers. My silvers are on the left, including three war nickels. I've found one buff, several wheaties (including two 1943 steels) and many, many pre-1959 Jeffersons.
Pretty cool, huh? And it might get a few of you to volunteer to work in VBS in your churches next year.