And it was a GOOD Friday!

Well, here we are in 2010 and on a holiday GOOD FRIDAY - April 2 and our weather was unbelievable!!! We were having record temp's of over 20 degrees Celsius. We called up Cousin Steve & his wife Nadine to see if they would like to detect for the first time this year up at their house since the times we have been there, we have done VERY well finding older coins. We were curious if the frost might of pushed up some more goodies.

We arrived shortly after 4:30pm and we chatted a bit in the backyard. Nadine was looking at the ground and found 10 cents Canadian and 25 cents Canadian laying right in the dirt. I looked down and spotted 5 cents Canadian. "Let's get hunting" Nadine yelled. We grabbed our detectors and headed for the front yard which has done well for us in the past.

The first hour and a half basically only gave up junky metal. We then found a small Canada Button type item, it had a rainbow looking Maple Leaf on it. Other than that find, this wasn't promising hunt.

Nadine asked if we wanted some pizza for dinner so she had Sheri put in a phone call to the local pizza place as they were going to pick it up.

I was very determined to find something, so as we were going back and forth in the front yard, I decided to bee-line straight for the front door of the house and we got a nice solid hit which registered 65 on the metal detector. Bob started to dig down 3 inches and a nice round coin and as Bob started to clean it off, it revealed a nice Canadian 1918 One Cent.

Woo hoo!! Let's keep going I yelled to Bob. Steve was off making a nice bonfire for us to sit around.

I got another nice hit closeby to where we found the One Cent and it revealed a tiny round metal token that says Play Coin Chicken Feed One Henny Penny. Steve says he remembers something about owning a game when he was little called Henny Penny. LOL

"Keep going" I said and we found a small metal Yellow Stop sign.

We stopped to eat some pizza around the fire and I suggested we all try in front of the house again and they were all game so we did.

We didn't find anything and I skipped across the driveway to an area that I remember when we were young visiting my aunt & uncle (who actually use to live there) had a fire pit set up. It was starting to get dark so I had to make sure I dug only good signals. We found like 3 pieces of junk and my final signal revealed another coin type item. It was less then 1 inch down. Nadine took it inside to see if she could clean it up. The coin was very worn but displayed the words one one side UN SOU Montreal and the other side Agriculture Commerce Bas-Canada. After we departed for home, Bob did some research on this coin and it appears to be dated around 1837!!!! I think that is our oldest coin to date!!! We were thrilled!!!!

Saturday morning we were off visiting Bob's parents and doing errands, later in the afternoon I decided to take the detector into our own backyard, it had not produced anything in the past except for an old service button, everything else was junk. Somehow today I found a penny & nickle.

I've got the detecting bug, I want to go out again soon. lol


Here is a photo of All the Finds for the past two days. :o)