“Metal detecting started out as something for me and my wife to do with our children when they were little. Living in Florida, we would take the family to the parks and beaches. I would detect while they played, and often they would help dig. Now that they’re older my wife and I have more time to treasure hunt and we truly enjoy the hobby.
Most treasure hunters already know that schools, churches and parks are some pretty good places to go coin shooting. But keep in mind that you have to hunt the older places if you want to find the older coins. (unless your just looking for extra beer money) Old houses built in the 40’s or before are good places to shoot. Back then people would burrie jars full of coins insted of taking them to the bank. River banks or the old swimming hole are a good place to go also, fisherman and kids playing around tend to lose coins while digging around in teir pockets. Coin shooting a school that was built in the 60’s or before is likley to produce silver coins and wheat pennies. Look for the older schools. It is not hard to tell an old school from the new schools. In some cases old schools have been torn down and new schools are built on the same property. This is where a little research comes in. Go to your local public office and look at the old land maps in the county records,You can see where the old schools used to be.Old churches are an excellent place to coin shoot, that’s where you will most likley find the oldest coins. Churches were usually one of the first buildings erected in a small town after the homes were built. Every Sunday most everybody in the town would go to church and children would play all around the church,in front, and in back of the church, losing coins along the way. Trees are great places to search under at an old church. It was a good place for people to sit and shade up on a hot day, and children would play in them. (not knowing some of their coins just tumbled out of their pocket)
This article is about finding gold with a metal detector in the hydraulic mines of the Sierra Nevada mountains, California. The methods described are for the Fisher gold bug (GB) and Gold Bug 2 (GB 2) and the Whites Gold Master II (GM II) and Gold Master V/SAT (GM V/SAT).This information may or may not be applicable to other detectors and other areas such as stream beds or the desert areas of the south west.
Metal detecting is gaining popularity as a hobby these days. You’ve seen scores of people using metal detectors on beaches and at parks. Your neighbour’s kid told you how he found a historic gold coin in the backyard using his metal detector and made a tidy sum selling it to the antique shop down the street. Your friend has just bought one of the sleekest looking metal detector and can’t wait to show it off. All sound good, but WAIT, before you jump onto the bandwagon, be sure you know how a metal detector work and how to get the ideal piece for yourself.
The london Science Museum has just released the ‘Metal Detecting R.C. Car’.
The car has a small sensor embedded in it’s undercarriage that detects small metal objects when it rambles thru fields, parks and yards. You are enamored with beeps and lights when the car discovers a metal object.
Although it is a novel idea, it is more geared towrds helping kids understand magnetic fields. I can imagine this thing picks up all kinds of pulltabs, bottlecaps and all kinds of other junk. It actualy even comes with some fake gold coins to practice with.
Somewhere in Tennessee police searched a muddy city parking lot where workmen discovered a (container-pot) of gold coins that may have been buried during the Civil War. The U.S. gold pieces are worth (conservatively) up to $3,000 each but it’s unclear how many were found since the workmen made off with most of them. “We have accounted for 177 and that’s just by talking to people who said that they had possessed some,” said the Mayor. “There may be a good bit more than that.”
