Saturday - 4/10/12 - Mega Find Day @ Older Elementry School
Back in the field on Saturday afternoon for about 5 hours. Had a 55 coin day ! including a silver 1950 Roosevelt Dime, a Silver Ring, a cool badge and a really interesting dollar size Token. It was a cloudy, grey day. A little windy and threatening rain. Parks were empty as were the school yards. Spent the day around old Orangevale part of Sacramento. Visited a community park and got a few coins. Headed to an older elementry school I had scouted, and Bingo ! A pretty good day !
Monday - 4/13/10 - After Work Hunt Strikes Silver & Gold !
After work today the sun was shining and the ground was drying up after a 2 day deluge in mid April. So, with dinner a couple of hours off and my son away on a field trip, I had time for a few hours of good ole coin and jewelery hunting, in soft, wet ground. The wet part not so good, the soft part though.....nice. Like digging in a chocolate cake for treasures. Anyway, I popped over to my current favorite hot spot and took down some nice finds. Got 2 silver dimes - another Mercury Dime ! 1945, and a silver Roosevelt - 1964..That's the last year they made silver rosies I think. Also got a gold ring ! (well, maybe not solid gold, probably just a crap toe ring, but cool !) and about 20 clad coins. Not bad for about 2.5 - 3 hours work (Sun went down on me !). Also, back to the crap camera. Corinne is back at school, and with her goes the good camera. So bear with me, the pic quality sucks again.
Captains Log - Supplemental
Here are some items I found last week that I forgot to document. The cold cream jar, was found near the river, near coloma and lotus rd intersection, in a mounded up wall of dirt that forms a berm along a hiking trail down to the river from Lotus Rd. The HotWheel car is a neato find - I found that at Bidwell Park in Butte County, weekend before last when I went to visit family in the Paradise CA area.
Wednesday - 4/14/10 - 30+ Clad & 1958 Wheatie
It's the after work coin shuffle again. Out there swinging the loop around into the twilight. Got a 1958 Wheatie, and a pocket full of clad coins. 32 in all. Also, some odds and ends - an old pocket knife remains, a big metal magnet or ring thing, a bangle, and of course, trash. Photo clarity brought to you buy the Kodak EasyShare C533 digital camera. I might as well draw a picture of the damn coins. What a crap sandwich of a camera. So, just for the heck of it, I am going to load up all the photo's I took trying to get a decent one to post. It's actually kind of funny. They go from bad to extremely bad. Pick your favorite !
M-F - 4/19 - 4/23/10 - Clad, Clad, Clad - and another Canadian Cent
Not much time to hunt this week, but when I did make it out it was only to collect clad coins. A bunch of 60's silver, but all post 1964 and all clad. Bummer. Test drove a few new sites, mediocre results.I did find another Canadian cent - this one from the '80s. That's my 2nd Canadian coin this year so far. Next week I'm going back to some hot spots !
Mon 4/26 & Wed 4/28
Rain, rain and more rain this week. But it cleared a bit on Mon and Wed afternoon so after work I hit two local spots for a couple of hours.
4/28 Thursday - Exploring New Territory - Clad Coins & A Silver Ring !
After researching parks and schools in the Rancho Cordova area, tried out a couple of older spots this afternoon from 5pm-8pm. Hardly anybody around, a few kids. Perfect weather to get in the zone and go. Lots of clad - 36 coins, a lighter a hair thing..All in 3 hours. And - A nice 92.5% silver mickey mouse ring ! Sweet !
4/30/10 - At it again...Cheking out a couple new sites + finishing with and old favorite
I find that Friday late afternoon's are great times to hit community parks and old elementry schools adjacent parks, as everyone seems to be heading home or heading out on Friday's. Anyway - beautiful day, hardly any people around, soft ground..But didnt find that much - except my old favorite spot gave up the toy cars. Oh ya, also an old, large, buried sprinkler head - not shown cause I set it aside and forgot to go back an fetch it before le