2013 - The Year in Review

Happy New Year from Digger Gran and Pin Pointer Princess!  We have been on a hiatus for the second half of 2013, dealing with family obligations, but we are now getting back in the swing of things.  The following is a review of our adventures in 2013:

We have found foreign coins, including Kroners, Euros, and Canadian coins.  Common coins found include several wheat pennies, tokens, and clad coins, which now amount to $152.00.   Items of value which we uncovered include several silver earrings, charms, rings, and keychains, and even one gold earring.  Other commonly-found items we found are:   bullets, knives, a box cutter, a watch, watch faces, copper pipes, sunglasses, Hot Wheels cars, miniature toys, keys, locks, car parts, belt buckles, zipper pulls, buttons, and costume jewelry rings.  Some of the more unusual pieces we uncovered include: a mini-flashlight, a horseshoe,  a religious medallion and a boy scout medal.  We have found over 1000 pennies and probably an equal amount of can tabs and bottle caps.

At one location in Michigan, we found over 100 dimes within a twenty-yard radius.  We're still trying to figure out why all those dimes were in that one small area.  If you have any ideas, please let us know.

Following are pictures of some of our findings from this past year:

                                          Festival grounds are a great source for costume
                                          jewelry, toys, and of course, pocket change.
 

                                          Dimes and Quarters Galore!  ....Not many pennies
                                          at this park.
 

                                          We found 67 dimes in one area of one park on
                                          the same day!  
 

                                          One of our most interesting finds, the metal pin
                                          above reads "Parvuli Dei," meaning "Children 
                                          of God," is awarded to Catholic boys in the
                                          Boy Scouts of America.
 

We have uncovered many, many bullets at several locations.  Oddly, some of those locations are on public school properties.  We also happen across non-metallic items such as this old glass bottle.  This is the only unbroken bottle we have dug up so far.

   Our new hobby provides us with beautiful views.

                                          This cute ladybug was looking for a ride on the
                                          Garrett Ace 350.
 

                                         Items of interest in this photo include a spoon
                                         (which broke when we tried to straighten it), a
                                         ring setting (what happened to the huge diamond?)
                                         a couple of bullets, a silver moon charm, and a 
                                         piece of a logo which fell off a car.
 

                                           a One Euro coin, found at a State Park
 

                                      5 Kroner coin from Denmark, found at a high school

In 2013, we metal detected the following locations:

Beaches, parks, playgrounds, high schools, elementary schools, residential properties, lakes, festivals, and farmland.  All this has been made possible by our Garrett Ace 350 and Garrett Pin Pointer Pro, which have served us with utmost accuracy in 2013.   In 2014, we may even consider purchasing the Garrett AT Pro metal detector.

We hope you enjoy these posts featuring Digger Gran and Pin Pointer Princess, and hope you continue to read up on our adventures sure to come in 2014.  Please enter your comments about our posts at the bottom of the page so we can have feedback from those who are enjoying our adventures.  Also, if you have questions about any items shown in the photos above, feel free to ask and we'll try to answer.  Watch for our next post coming in the next few days!