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This winter has been slow metal detecting. I have been spending a lot of my time on a Pic microprocessor project to make a handheld space invaders game. I completed most of it during vacation time in December, and finished the remainder of it in January. The Japanese? coin was at an abandoned home, and the quarters were found at a park and at homes of people that I know.
Kevin McCracken 01/20/06 |
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Here are a few finds from the month of February and March. The half was from an old home.
Kevin McCracken 03/25/06 |
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This set of coins all came from the same house - owned by a nice guy named Christman who lives in the country. I like it when people seem interested in the hobby - he was with me the whole time I detected his home. I told him that I would share whatever we found, so he kept all of the coins except the half dollar, which is in my collection now.
Kevin McCracken 05/15/06 |
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While helping a friend of mine load up a truck of stuff to move to Florida, I re-detected another friend's house - Mel Ramsey. I found an almost perfectly intact 1917 dime that I had overlooked. I guess it never hurts to check twice. While in Bipus township (a part of Huntington), I checked out a couple homes from the 1860's. I'm sure they had been detected before, but I did manage to find 2 Indian cents (1902, 1903), one of which I gave to the homeowner. I also found a solid gold necklace which opens up to show two pictures. The pictures had warn away with age. It's a test of my consience to show things like this to the homeowner - because I know they will likely want to keep such things. But, I figure that it may have more sentamental value to them than me. I gave it the the couple (Harry and Nora) with all the other stuff that I found, and they said I could keep it! It's not a gold coin, but its as close as I have come so far I guess.
Kevin McCracken 06/01/06 |
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Ah, another silver dollar. There just aren't enough of these beauties to be found. The dimes and quarters were found misc. places in town. The half, cent, and dollar were found at two old country farms that a family named Thompson ownes. I ran across these homes while I was lost comming home from work one day. There was a train on the tracks, and it was running very slow, so I decided to take an alternate route that I had taken a few times before. However, this time I missed a turn, and it took me an extra 30 minutes to get home (after asking someone in desperation). I wound up happy about the ordeal though, since I came across the old farm house. A nice lady named Jane-anne Thompson and her brother Richard Dean lived there. She grew up there, and said that a neighbor's home sits on the site of where an old family home used to be. I found the half and the Indian in her yard, and the dollar in the neighbor's yard. I showed them the coins, and offered them half of what they were worth (which wasn't too much as you coin collectors know). However, they are worth a lot to a detectorist who works so hard to find the elusive coins though. Both sets of households were very nice. We couldn't enjoy this hobby without people like them.
Kevin McCracken 08/24/06 |
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I went back to the old farm site above for a second try, and found one more keeper. This was about 3" down, and about 15' from the country road. There is lots of tall grass here that I can't easily detect, so maybe sometime in the future...
Kevin McCracken 08/30/06 |
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I found the large cent at an old Ohio town. I wish that I had more than a few hours per visit at this place. I found the other coins at the Huntington College (now university) grounds. The college was originally a large brick building built around 1897. Now there are dozens of large buildings. This site has been hunted very heavily before by others that I have talked to, but I still managed to squeak out a few for my efforts.
Kevin McCracken 12/16/06 |
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