Putting in my .02 cents

This morning went out for breakfast, found 2 pennies one outside of store (at first thought it was a toy coin) and the other inside MacD's on the floor by the counter.

Journal Entry:
change: .02
cans/bottles: none
November total: $26.01
Running total for each month: $106.76
cans/bottles running total: $39.60

Day after Black Friday...

At the grocery store customer service desk found a .10 just before getting in line.

Journal Entry:
change: .10
cans/bottles: none
November total: $25.99
Running total for each month: $106.74
cans/bottles running total: $39.60

Black Friday...

Today being Black Friday, I'm glad I was and will not be the kind of person to stand in line or get to a store early. I did get out of the house for a little while for the first time since Tuesday, took in the bottles for refund nice easy walk. After parking and getting out of the car I spotted a dime and on the way back to the car also spotted a penny.

Journal Entry:
change: .11
cans/bottles: $1.50
November total: $25.89
Running total for each month: $106.64
cans/bottles running total: $39.60

~~~~~Happy Thanksgiving~~~~~

Searched more Schools this Morning...

This morning I went to 3 Elementary schools, first one not to great found .07 in pennies by a swing. The 2nd school did so-so that was the school I had found the ring earlier this month, no luck today did find .13 cents in clad. And the last one for the day is the Goose Poop school so many geese in the area, found a key (wish I could find an old skeleton type key), some kind of round-ring thingy with numbers all away around it and $1.73 in clad.

Coin Shooting/treasure hunting: $1.93; 6 quarters (1980D, 1985D, (2) 1996P's, 1997P, New York 2001P), 3 dimes (1970, 1997P, 2007P), 13 pennies (1964, 1969D, 1970, (2) 1974's, 1987, 1993, 1999, (2) 2000's, 2006, 1965 Canadian, 1985 Canadian).
Coin shooting running total: $113.78

Stopped at Several Schools this Morning...

Got up bright and early, well maybe not bright very cloudy today. First school I stopped at did good, have been there twice before, found a 1941D nickel need it for coin album. I know someone else searches here have seen him a couple of times, guess he hasn't been here for a while for I got $1.75 in clad. The second location I have eyed for awhile, finally got there and didn't do to good only found .22 cents and the third location also was no good, found nothing. Went back to the areas I have done and know there is coins, searched popping up quarters school did very good found $2.35 in clad and a lot of it was (you guessed it) quarters.

Coin Shooting/treasure hunting: $4.32; 11 quarters (1979D, 1984P, 1987P, 1997P, New York 2001P, Vermont 2001D, Vermont 2001P, Minnesota 2005P, North Dakota 2006P, Hawaii 2008P, New Mexico 2008P), 13 dimes (1967, 1969D, 1984P, 1987P, 1989P, 1991P, (2) 1993P's, 1995P, 1997P, 2001P, 2007P, 2008P), 2 nickels (1941D, 2004D), 17 pennies (1965, 1973, 1975, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1990, 1991, 1995D, (3) 1999's, 2001, (2) 2007's, (2) 2008's).
Coin shooting running total: $111.85

Stopped at gas station...

This morning before going to some schools to do some coin shooting with my metal detector. I stopped at the store/gas station at the end of our street, when I pulled up to the pump and got out there laying on the ground was a $20.00 bill, I picked that baby up...

Journal Entry:
change: $20.00
cans/bottles: none
November total: $25.78
Running total for each month: $106.53
cans/bottles running total: $38.10

Coin Shooting for November 20, 2009...

Friday morning went to two parks the first place I found .62 cents and the second park found a green key and $1.19 in clad coins.

Coin Shooting/treasure hunting: $1.81; 4 quarters (1967, 1995P, Massachusetts 2000P, North Carolina 2001P), 6 dimes (1981P, 1983P, (2) 2002P's, 2005P, 2007P), 1 nickel (1992P), 16 pennies (1939 wheat, 1971, 1971D, 1972, 1972D, 1973, 1974S, (2) 1976's, 1987, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2008, ????).
Coin shooting running total: $107.53

Cut Short by Rain on November 19, 2009...

Went to the Beach/Park this morning is a forcast of rain for the day, when I got there searched near the area the Fast Ferry used to be docked didn't find to much compared to the picnic area finds. Also found a key looks like it be for a house.
Than came the rain...

Coin Shooting/treasure hunting: .77 cents; 1 quarter (Virginia 200P), 4 dimes (1987P, 1991P, 1996P, 1997D), 12 pennies (1969D, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986D, 1987, 1992, 2006, ????).
Coin shooting running total: $105.72

Coin Shooting for the day...

Today was fairly nice out but with heavy frost this morning making it a cold and wet morning of Coin Shooting. I made this hunt a shorter than normal one, went to one location did manage to get some clad. My Pro Pointer started to act weird with it's alarm sound (Ooops, battery going) so I changed it and continued for a while longer than called it a day. Not fun walking around with wet shoes and socks.

Coin Shooting/treasure hunting: .91 cents; 3 quarters (1995P, Connecticut 1999P, Rhode Island 2001P), 1 dime (1976), 6 pennies (1973, 1974, 1976, 1984, 2001, 2002D).
Coin shooting running total: $104.95

Bottle return on November 16, 2009...

I'm taking a few days break from Coin Shooting, so today I took in the bottles starting to be to many.

Journal Entry:
change: none
cans/bottles: $1.30
November total: $5.78
Running total for each month: $86.53
cans/bottles running total: $38.10

Busy Morning Coin Shooting...

This morning I went to many locations, didn't do as good as I thought I would. First location an elementary school not far from home, the most I found here was 2 beer cans for deposit and .16 cents in clad. Well maybe the other places in the next town will produce. The second elementary school had two playgrounds the first one gave me .72 cents in clad and the second playground .21 cents in clad. While on my way to find the other two schools I spotted a large park so I turned around and searched there, they had a pretty good size TotLot found .77 cents in clad here. Will have to return here in the future, have several sports fields that can be searched. The fourth location school had about 4 TotLots, managed to only find .02 cents and the last school TotLot managed to find .37 cents clad. These places made it a not so good day, possibly someone searches these areas.

Coin Shooting/treasure hunting: $2.25; 3 quarters (1974, 1988P, 1990P), 12 dimes (1970, 1985P, 1988D, 1989P, 1990P, (2) 1993P's, 1998P, 1999P, 2003P, 2004P, 2007P), 2 nickels (1983D, 1995D), 20 pennies (1966, 1974, (2) 1976's, 1983, 1983D, (2) 1984's, 1985, 1986, (2) 1987's, 1988, 1989, 1994, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, ????).
Coin shooting running total: $104.04

Friday the 13th finds...November 13, 2009

This morning was another very cold morning, in the low 20's BRRRrrrrrr!!!! I went to the park I did yesterday hoping to find another silver, no luck. In the past I found Military items, 1 Army looks like dog tag, 1 Navy Blue Reserve coin, 1 Marines pendent these 3 I didn't find at this location, today I found 1 Air Force pin in this park. And a ring inside has the word India. Something like a disk/coin the size of a nickel and the thickness of a nickel and penny together, has the state of Florida on both sides. And a lot of clad.

Coin Shooting/treasure hunting: $2.71; 6 quarters (1977D, 1985D, 1986D, 1989D, New York 2001D, Indiana 2002P), 8 dimes (1966, 1978, 1993P, 1996P, 1998P, (2) 2002P's, 2004P), 3 nickels (1982D, 1993P, 1995P), 26 pennies (1972, (2) 1973's, 1974S, (2) 1975's, 1976, (2) 1978's, 1978D, 1983, 1983D, 1986D, 1988, 1989D, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000D, 2003, 2007, (2) 2008's, (2) ????, 1985 Canadian).
Coin shooting running total: $101.79

After search on November 13, 2009

After I got done with coin shooting, I stopped to pick up lunch before going home. Found a penny in the parking space behind my car.

Journal Entry:
change: .01
cans/bottles: none
November total: $5.78
Running total for each month: $86.53
cans/bottles running total: $36.80

Found a silver quarter...

This morning was quite cold in the 20's but went out anyway. First park I went to was around the corner from my sister's house, searched near a tennis court and found a 1964 Washington quarter, going back to that park tomorrow a spend more time in that part. Also found $1.79 in clad. Wasn't ready to call it a day so went to the soccer fields and spent a little over an hour (boy are those fields HUGE!!!!) found one small flat metal asian dragon, 1 junk earring, a pin that says Town of Ajax By the Lake have no idea where that place is, something that looks like a large bullet without the casing and a $1.76 in clad.

Coin Shooting/treasure hunting: $3.55; 9 quarters (1964 Silver, 1968, 1989P, 1993D, 1994D, (2) 1996P's, Texas 2004P, Montana 2007P), 10 dimes (1967, 1974D, 1984P, 1992P, 1995P, 1997P, (4) 1999P's), 2 nickels (1960D, 1981P), 20 pennies (1963, 1971, 1978, (2) 1982's, 1983, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1991D, 1993, 1994, (3) 1999's, 19??, 2006, 2009, (2) ????).
Coin shooting running total: $99.08

Schools closed today...

Today the schools were closed for Veteran's Day so I decided to search some of them. The first place was a new location for me, found a pin that said Senior Distict Softball the pin on the back was bent and also found $1.15 in clad. The second location, I've been to before did very good the first time so tried again today did even better, found a small metal heart charm and $1.88 in clad. The third and last place for the day was another school I have been to before, did good here also found a watch face without the band at the bottom of a slide still ticking a hot wheel size jet plane and $1.59 in clad.

Coin Shooting/treasure hunting: $4.62; 12 quarters (1981D, 1983P, 1984P, 1989D, 1995P, 1997D, 1998P, South Carolina 2000P, Virginia 200P, Kentucky 2001D, Nevada 2006P, New Mexico 2008P), 12 dimes (1972, 1982P, 1984P, 1987P, (2) 1995P's, 1996P, 1997P, (3) 1999P's, 2005P), 3 nickels (1976, 2005P, 2006P), 27pennies (1970, 1973, 1975, 1980D, 1981, 1988, (2) 1992's, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, (2) 2000's, 2002, (2) 2006's, (3) 2007's, (4) 2008's, (2) ????, 1970 Canadian).
Coin shooting running total: $95.53

Coin Shooting at the Beach/Park...

Didn't know where I wanted to search today so I went back to the beach around the coffee house again, found a spent bullet casing from a rifle it's about 2 inches in length was found near a Veterans Memorial, I was just thinking maybe came from a service that was held there in the past. A lot of pennies today.

Coin Shooting/treasure hunting: $1.34; 1 quarter (New York 2001D), 7 dimes (1967, 1976D, 1988P, 1994D, 1996P, 1999P, 2000P), 39 pennies (1964, 1964D, 1970D, (2) 1972's, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, (2) 1989's, 1990, 1991, 1992, (2) 1993's, 1994D, (2) 1996's, 1997, (2) 1998's, (3) 1999's, 2000D, 2001, 2001D, 2006, 20??, 1979 Canadian).
Coin shooting running total: $90.91

Took a brake from Metal Detecting today...

Even though the weather was beautiful and warm had an appointment to go to this morning so decided to take a day off. Took some bottles in for deposit return and browsed the grocery store. At the hospital ramp garage found a penny on the ground next to my car.

Journal Entry:
change: .01
cans/bottles: $1.60
November total: $5.77
Running total for each month: $86.52
cans/bottles running total: $36.80

Searched 3 School Playgrounds on Nov. 8, 2009

And boy was I tired afterwards, I did the Happy OH YES!!! at the first location I found my first gold ring on the inside does have the 14K, oh and also found .88 cents. After there I went to the second place I had added to my list, there were 4 play areas but only did 2 the others were to far for me to walk and moving the car closer was out of the question, so only found .48 cents (I believe someone else searched here saw holes in the woodchips in areas that could of had coins, but found coins in the grass). The third location I decided to do after all, weather was getting nice and warm. When I got there I had to walk thru alot of Goose Poop, yuck!!. Did get hits here especially in the grass area, found $1.75. Back started hurting so I called it a day.

Coin Shooting/treasure hunting: $3.11; 10 quarters (1981P, 1986D, 1989P, 1993P, 1994P, 1998P, Georgia 1999P, (2) Virginia 2000P's, Wisconsin 2004P), 4 dimes (1970D, 1981P, 2001D, 2001P), 1 nickel (1959D), 15 pennies (1971, 1972D, 1978, 1978D, 1980, 1982, 1991D, 1993, 1993D, 1994, 1999, 19??, 2005D, 2007, 2008).
Coin shooting runninr total: $89.57

A Couple of Hunts before Club Meeting...

This morning got an early start, went to 2 elementary schools before GVTS meeting, in just a little over 2 hours I got thru 4 playgrounds at two schools. The first school is not far from home, that place had 2 large and 1 small playground only found .81 cents not bad for early morning. The second school did alot better it was in a different town it's on the way to where the meeting is held, that school had 2 play areas one was just swings found $2.28 at this school. Plan on getting out early again tomorrow, for sure 2 locations maybe 3.

Coin Shooting/treasure hunting: $3.09; 7 quarters (1973D, 1990P, 1991P, 1992D, 1997P, Maryland 2000D, North Dakota 2006P), 10 dimes (1965, 1975, 1983P, 1992P, 2002D, 2002P, 2005D, (2) 2006P's, 2007P), 5 nickels (1984P, 1988D, 1999P, 2001P, 2006P), 9 pennies (1962, 1980, 1982, 1983D, 1984, 1995D, 1998, 2000, 1961 Canadian).
Coin shooting running total: $86.46

Coin Shooting at the Beach

This morning, I went back to the same location as yesterday this time I searched around the coffee house that has a patio with picnic tables the grass is the place, about a 5 ft. width into the lawn I searched all away around the building and it paid. One coin I got was from another country and being my first $1.00 coin, came from Australia it is a gold/brass color on the front says Elizabeth II... Australia... 2001, the back of the coin has Centenary of Federation...One Dollar...2001. It's about the same size as our quarter but slightly thicker, looked it up it's a Norfolk Island Federation $1.00. Did the convert from Australia dollar to U.S dollar for Nov. 7, 09 and it equals to 0.92 cents.

Coin Shooting/treasure hunting: $4.07; 12 quarters (1970D, 1985P, 1986D. 1993D, 1994D, 1996P, (2) 1997P's, Massachusetts 2000P, Rhode Island 2001P, (2) Ohio 2002P's), 6 dimes (1970, (2) 1987P's, 1998D, 1998P, 2002P), 2 nickels (1979 Canadian, 1999P), 37 pennies (1959D, 1963, 1972D, 1974S, 1976, 1977D, (3) 1982's, (2) 1985's, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1989D, (4) 1990's, 1994, (2) 1995's, 1997, 1998, (2) 1999's, 19??, 2000D, (2) 2002's, 2002D, 2006, 2007, 2008, (3) ????).
Coin shooting running total: $83.37

Find a Penny Pick it up, Nov. 5, 2009...

After Coin Shooting I stopped at the grocery store on the way home, as I was walking in spotted a penny on the ground, I picked it up and looked around to see if there was more.

Journal Entry:
change: .01
cans/bottles: none
November total: $5.76
Running total for each month: $86.51
cans/bottles running total: $35.20

Coin Shooting at the Beach on Nov 5, 2009...

Got up early to get in some coin shooting before the rain/snow/gropple came, did very good in the area near the playground and restrooms, found several items 1 was a key, than some sort of pendant that has enamel in it "U.S Marines" and the emblem on the back of it says The Few The Proud, is a little heavy. Than the coins, did get a wheat cent.

Coin Shooting/treasure hunting: $1.80; 4 quarters (1979D, 1988P, 1992D, Wisconsin 2004P), 6 dimes (1985P, 1988D, 1990P, (2) 1991P's, 2003P), 20 pennies (1941 wheat, 1972, 1976, (2) 1980's, 1981, 1985, 1986, 1989D, (2) 1993's, 1996, 1998, (2) 1999's, 2002, (2) 2007's, 2008, 1977 Canadian).
Coin shooting running total: $79.30.

Walk in the mall...

While walking in the mall, I saw a soda vending machine have several of them in this mall. I checked the coin return slot, the second side of this machine I got a surprise 3 quarters. So I walked to the others to see if there was more, no luck.

Journal Entry:
change: .75
cans/bottles: none
November total: $5.75
Running total for each month: $86.50
cans/bottles running total: $35.20

Another surprise in the mail...

Today, got some more junk mail was from the same place I got the $2.00 from on Sept. 8, 2009. This time there was $5.00 in it (all brand new $1.00 bills), man I like this.

Journal Entry:
change: $5.00
cans/bottles: none
November total: $5.00
Running total for each month: $85.75
cans/bottles running total: $35.20

Jack Frost Hit This Morning...

This morning was quite cold, had to scrap the window before leaving for metal detecting. I went to 2 new parks in a different suburb, the first park wasn't to big I only found .53 cents but than it was a short hunt need to return in the future. Went to the 2nd location which was down the road a bit, this park was huge it has 3 Tot Lots but I only searched 2 of them and a little bit of a volley ball court (sand was wet). As big as this park is it's fairly new and or someone else searched I only found .40 cents...

Coin Shooting/treasure hunting: .93 cents; 1 quarter (California 2005P), 5 dimes (1972, 1989D, 1994P, 1996P, 2006P), 18 pennies (1967, 1970, 1974, (2) 1980's, 1982, 1984, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2001, (3) 2007's, (2) 2008's, (2) ????).
coin shooting running total: $77.50

Searched some Elementary Schools...

This morning got an early start due to the time change, sun came up earlier. Went to 3 schools, first two are first time visits and the third one was a why not. The first one didn't find much in the wood chips, but when I went into some of the grass I started finding quarters need to go back to that location in future, in a short time I found $1.66. The second school also did okay, two areas that the kids play on produced the other sections no, found $1.09 at this school. Than I returned to one school that has been very good in finds, but today only found .10 and a soda bottle...

Coin Shooting/treasure hunting: $2.85; 9 quarters (1977, 1980P, 1988P, 1991D, 1993P, 1997P, Virginia 2000P, Vermont 2001D, Montana 2007P), 4 dimes (1989D, 1993P, 1999D, 2002D), 2 nickels (1993P, 1994D), 10 pennies (1969D, 1070D, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1985, (2) 1997's, 2008, 1984 Canadian).
coin shooting running total: $76.57