Metal Detecting And Coin Shooting For Beginners
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)
Coins are found where money exchanged hands or could fall out of pockets or purses. Old drive-in movies are good places. Yes, they are full of trash, but there are ways to get around that. A smaller coil on your detector will allow the coin shooter to actually detect between pieces of trash. Discrimination options can cut most of the trash out. Some detectors have a bell tone alert or TONE ID which really sounds off on coins but gives a low hum on trash. Drive-in hot spots would be around the consession stands and ticket booth where people would be pulling money out of their pockets and at the playground in front of the screen.
The grassy areas between the sidewalks and the road are a good place for coins. These areas are useally deemed public property but the homeowner is responsable for the care of these areas, so make it a point to check with the homeowner before you start detecting. (after all what would you do if you saw some strange person digging up your wifes flowers) It is only common courtesy to ask first. Don’t forget to check around old parking meters if they are in the grassy area next to the sidewalks.
Old bleachers at the old horse track,the old stock car track,rodeo grounds or your old high school football feild. Alot of years of people losing money out of their pockets yes there’s a lot of trash, but is it worth digging up a little trash if you are finding old coins?
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