How much did we find on the second day of the year?

It's January 2, 2010 and the second day of the year turned out to be a winner. Claire and I went to a couple different stops in Coupeville on Whidbey Island with the new metal detector. The first stop was the Coupeville Town Park which brought in one quarter, four dimes and eight pennies ($.73), and the second stop was where they hold the farmer's market. We ended up finding one quarter, a dime and two pennies ($.37). The park also brought in a child's mood ring and the market grounds find was a piece of costume jewelry. We did find some junk as well, but didn't find any above ground money. Still trying to track down our first piece of silver, gold or old coin of value. Can you believe we also got in some exercise?

Check out one of the interesting blogs we are tracking Money Walker! It's a great story about money hunting and exercise.

Daily total: $1.10

Below ground finds: $1.10

Total to date: $1.56 Day 2

$.46 below ground and $.22 above

Money finds for the day.

Max with big tree where the dime was found.

Max detecting in the back of the university.

Claire in the front of university sporting the dime that was found.

A quick trip from my car to the post office door brought in two dimes and two pennies. Claire, Max and I took a little time metal detecting at an old university that has an incredible park and grounds for hunting. We actually run at this park during the summer-and thought with all of the activity-this would be a good place to visit. The college building's architecture is amazing-it's a wonderful sight.

The adrenaline starts pumping when you hear a nice signal from the machine (metal detector). Your heart races as you think what you might be unearthing....is it an old silver coin that someone dropped, maybe a ring of some kind? We picked a spot by an enormous tree to begin our search. Leaves are all over-and the ground is sloped like ski moguls. The beep of the machine becomes clear that it is something other than aluminum foil. It signals that it might be a dime. I begin to dig a plug in the ground...it's not at the surface, so I check the hole again with the detector. The signal continues to be positive. The dull, metallic item surfaces...I'm thinking it has to be old-holding it in my hand-delicately removing some of the dirt-the date appears- it's a 1989 Roosevelt dime. We didn't unearth any silver this trip, but did add a 1988 Washington quarter, another Roosevelt dime and a Lincoln.

Daily total: $.68

Grand total to date: $39.19

170 finding days averages out to $.23 per day

Above ground finds: $37.44

Below ground finds: $1.75

We are getting an Ace 250 Garrett Metal Detector

Over 35 years ago I had my first metal detector. It was a black, plastic model from Radio Shack. The detector only had an on/off switch, but I felt like a king. I remember only finding a few things that counted, unfortunately most of the items turned out to be trash. Since my family and I have been coin hunting above ground and having success, we could only imagine what kind of finds could be underground.

Our hunting quest started on July 12, 2009, and to date we have recovered over $32.00 in coins and bills. A couple of weeks ago I got the idea of looking at metal detectors, so I started to search for information on the internet. I ran into a great metal detecting forum. Check out the Metal Detecting Forum site. We also recommend checking out Garrett's site.