Mary and I have a membership on the Canadian Metal Detecting website:
Mary occasionally posts items there, but I seldom visit because I get discouraged by hearing how well everyone else is doing. I feel really good after finding $3 in a school yard but then I go on-line and hear stories of people finding gold diamond rings and it gets me frustrated.
After posting our finds from Steve and Nadine's yard I finally felt like we belong to the metal detecting community. In the forums we have been getting lots of kudos and advice from others on how to continue our investigations. It was stated that we have discovered a gold mine of treasure and we should follow up with a deep and meticulous scan of the whole area and to dig all signals.
Sunday we had all day to scan their property before the construction crew started work the next day. We read up on-line on how to fine tune our detector. We got over there at 10am and stayed past 4pm. We scanned deep, we scanned meticulous, we dug everything that made a sound and we walked back and forth covering the entire property the best we could. This time we discovered 7 pennies, 1 nickle from 1960, a quarter and a toonie. 
We also found a toy motorcycle, a police button, a musket ball and a 'Hammond, Turner and Son' deer embossed sporting button. There was no half pennies nor pennies from the late 1800's nor early 1900's.
Steve and Nadine found a tiny nickel from 1920. We were happy to spend that day with them but I was hoping that we could live the life of rock stars in the metal detecting blog for just another day.
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