Obtainable Coin Types (In your area)

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Old Marbles

These old clay's and Bennington's were simply found laying on the ground. Take the time to pick them up! Over time one will have quite a collection of these. The best part is this seemingly little bunch brought over $30 when I sold them.
I did find an old Lutz double ribbon hand blown one that was cracked and filled the palm of my hand. Just that one in bad shape sold for about the same. Uncracked it would of went for over $100 no questions asked.

 

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The list of things to find that have value to turn into that better metal detector is almost endless! A simple gold ring that was damaged and of no use to anyone, was converted to $24. Like I said the list goes on. I am sure there are others who know of even more ways to turn their hobby finds into that extra money that gets put to go use in other areas.

 

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Some of Bruce's Minnesota Finds

My friend in Minnesota sent these pictures of a good site to hunt. I'll post them over time. Wait till you see some of what he got.

 

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Here is a good sidewalk tear up. In places like this the old coins are just inches down. That 1877 Seated Half most likely caused some hearing loss.

 

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More from Bruce

More sidewalk/street tear-up photos. That deeper older dirt is LaCrosse, Wisconsin. This makes me home sick.

 

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Last post, last picture is looking East, 4 blocks that direstion is where I got my gold coin.

 

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Bruce said he just pulled the car over when he saw the spot he got this hand-full at. A good spot gave up these all in one half hour of hunting.

 

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Here is another Bruce dug, he is excited about this coin due to the mintage (15,100). If that was my coin Bruce, I'd hunt till I got one in better shape.

 

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Here is one Bruce sent thru the email to me to post. I never count Wheaties but will post it anyway for those who do.

 

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I told Bruce there was a thread for Minnesota hunters, so when he gets time he will most like get on board here. He will send more pictures and tell about some of his finds. See I told ya he was a better hunter.

 

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These pictures of where the sidewalk once was are great! I should of posted something like them in the Carpet of Coins story or even the night hunting article. Now Bruce uses a older Garrett Freedom series machine and he is pulling these types of finds up. A good example of knowing your machine. A spot like this is one to hunt till you have to stop for things like keeping your job.

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Like Shooting Fish in a Barrel"​

Imagine it is dark and you are going along and get that deep iffy signal in that sidewalk section. You stop and dig it and find a rusty old square nail. You think to yourself, I must be going too fast in my excitement and you slow down. The next signal is then dug and you find the target is now in the dirt you have next to the hole. You wave hand full after hand full past your coil, then it is in your hand. Sifting thru this you now have a coin in your hand, the distance light from the corner street-light half a block away lets you know it's a Indian but what the year is will have to wait. This repeats itself over and over, everyonce in awhile one glimmers in the dim light and you know you have older silver. It is just that easy!

 

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Wow, great pictures and some incredible finds. That is exactly the kind of spot I'm always on the lookout for and find so rarely.

I hope you find spots like these. When you do it is a hunt it now situation! Don't find yourself sitting home and thinking should I go back over there? Often times delay means when you return it has been pounded to death by the many who actually drive from over an hour away for just these kinds of oppertunities. Or the section has gravel poured like the one half of the street in the pictures.

Fresh Cement​

The worse case we detectorists experience is the sight of fresh cement. Maybe fresh cement on a unhunted section can be looked at as good thing, our children and grandchildren well someday have somewhere to hunt for older coins! Who are we kidding let them find their own spots!
Get that detector and pound that sidewalk section!

 

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According to Bruce, who I called when I got the pictures. Others had been there before him. Some did come down from his club, over an hour's drive away. One guy got a real nice shaped Large cent. The street section that was hunt-able did according to Bruce give up a liberty nickel and an Indian Head. I have found many times the streets get shaved too deep to produce very many coins, but there are always a few to be found.
Do the ones that should be in the streets due to they were once all dirt and mud get hauled off in a dump truck? Are the ones found there from dirt that is dragged from the boulevard section. As the dirt is moved around from the work being done, it is best to hunt it as a fresh site each time.

 

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Yet Another Offer

I got this one in the email a while back.
Hello Free,
We would very much like you to register and participate in our new Treasure Time Forum. It is much better than that other forum.
http://75.127.76.130/~ttforum/forum/index.php?action=forum

Hope to see you there!
I told them thanks for being considered, but at this time Gometaldetecting.com is everything I want in a metal detecting site.

 

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So what makes this site so appealing and why do I want to post here? The answer is simple it is friendly and the focus is aimed at metal detecting and treasure hunting! Isn't that what it is supposed to be all about? The owner and his trusted moderators are doing a great job keeping it this way.

 

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So why did I start a thread like this one here? The answer is real simple, one guy writes books promoting Garretts, another writes them for Whites. There is lots of good reading in them and tips and ideas, I?ve read them myself and enjoyed them when I first stated out in this hobby. I realized that the low-end machines were left out!
But I look at it this way, most people can only afford so much money to spend on that first metal detector. Least that?s the way it was for me. So instead of thinking I have to spend nearly $1,000 for a detector to get started, why not show what can be done with the simple machines.
If folks give the locations I post about a couple of hours hunting and see their types of finds take a dramatic turn for the better, than like me they too will wonder what a better detector could do! I ended up upgrading, most people do. If you stay with the same machine, that?s all fine too. The simple fact remains we all can dig some pretty special stuff!
Eventually others will post about their finds. More will take the plunge and get their first machine. Others will upgrade their machines, the advertisers will make sales and the owners of sites will stay in business. The end result is we continue to have a site to talk metal detecting.

 

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First Of 2008

From Bruce that fellow you never got to meet.
I got out for the first time today. Temp was close to 70. Saw this street work in La Crosse. West Ave. looking north toward Jackson and south. There were three other guys there. Didn’t find anything, but was good to get out again.
On the phone with Bruce he told me he had discovered some areas of the removed side walk had yet another sidewalk slab beneath that. When I came across such a slab I would bust it and toss it out of the way to get the deeper coins. The older coins are below any slab section. The slabs of cement were added after the old wooden board walk systems were considered out of date. Busting these lower slabs was not causing any harm after all they would be tearing them out for putting in new sewer and water lines anyway.

 

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Well this weekend Bruce in Minnesota took a road trip to LaCrosse, Wisconsin and emailed some photos of the project he is hunting there. This photo is of someone hunting a cornor section that has it's sidewalks removed. I think it is Bruce, if so his wife took the picture. It is areas such as this that can produce someone new to the hobby's first indian head penny.

 

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Another photo from Bruce, this is West Ave looking north in LaCrosse. Work has been going on for some time on the west side of the rode. Traffic is using one lane, which means after this side is done they will do the other side of the road. This will provide months of hunting. Some sand has been brought in for fill, but the areas of good darker older dirt are visible. Remember if your hunting the sand and you get a weak, deep signal, scrap away the top with your foot and re-scan. If the target reads better and in higher numbers, dig it. Many older deeper coins do read much lower due to the depths they are laying at.
Get what the others before you passed up!

 

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I got a few more pictures from Bruce to post up dealing with demo hunting. He did get a couple Indian heads from the area, oldest was 1880, he also mentioned an 1884 and one from the 1890's. He has to travel about an hour to get to LaCrosse, so he does not have the chance to pound the site. So I'll call Mike who lives about 6 blocks west of the tear-up, to see what he has been finding.
Also one picture is of an old section claimed to be haunted and holds a hidden cache (currently it has a church on it).