Civic Holiday = Pay Day! 08-02-2010

Today was a holiday Monday for us here in Ontario, Canada - Civic Holiday. My morning actually started off early, I was wide awake at 5am - EEEK!! So I got up and did some computer work until Bob woke up at 8:30am and after breakfast Bob played with his G-Scale Train and I painted up some Muskoka chairs and then it got hot, so we headed to Mom's pool for a dip, came home, had a 2-hour nap, got up had some supper and then it hit me, we had not metal detected in a looooooooooooooong time. I asked Bob to call up Cousin Steve and see what he was up to. His house always seemed to pay out nicely with older coins. Bob got Steve on the phone and he said we could come up.

Once we got there, Steve showed us a "cheaper" metal detector he had picked up and try out. No pinpointing feature, it didn't tell you how deep an item was and beeped at everything.

At first we found a bottle cap, a gun shell casing, a nail. Steve found some nails. I walked over to Steve and detected one of his holes to see what reading I was getting on something he got a solid hit on. The numbers came up negative and iron. I found a 70 reading nearby and marked it with a stick for him.

Steve and his find:

It ended up being a 1969 penny which appeared to have been used for target practice. Steve figures it was a handgun which was used on it. This penny was found near the side of the house about 2 inches down. He doesn't own one and no one in his family who lived in the house previously owned one. Very strange.

Bob and I had an awesome time hunting.

We first found bunch of firsts for us a 1899 Indian Head Penny, a 1918 US Dime, Canadian 1903 Penny, Canadian 1917 King George Nickel (such a cutie small thing). We also found what appears to be some sort of brooch or clip-on earring with a diamond looking stone in the center, 1951 US Penny, 1964 US penny, 1973 Canadian Penny, 1977 Canadian Penny and a 1982 Canadian Penny.

Close-up of the brooch or earring with the stone.

Close-up's of the front & backs of the older (first time finding) coins!

Overall, a totally excellent hunt and I think we only did hunt for 1 hour and 1/2.

We had been here before previously two or three times and have always found old unique items. We hope it keeps paying off for us, it is so fun searching Steve & Nadine's yard. :o)