SURVEY TIME: Coin,Relic,Gold,Bottle Hunters

Hi everyone,,There's getting to be a lot of people on here and I'm kinda of curious,,of what kind/style of hunting do you do?...My main focus is on Old Coins = #1..If I'm hunting an old farm field etc. then any ornate item also grabs my interest but I'm mainly hunting for old coins..I'm always up for the challenge of working the older So Called worked out parks etc.... These are some of my most enjoyable rewarding places to hunt..I have also dabbled in bottle,gold and relic hunting too,with little to no success when compared to coin hunting....To make it simpler for you to reply/answer I have categorized the various kinds/styles of hunting by a number..If you want to, just leave a number or just leave after reading this...Thanks....JJ


#1 Coin Hunter

#2 Relic Hunter

#3 Gold Hunter

#4 Bottle Hunter

#5 Coin,Relic Hunter

#6 Coin,Relic,Gold Hunter

#7 Coin,Relic,Gold & Bottle Hunter

# 8 Just here trying to learn more about #?

# 9 All of the above but trying to learn #? more

# 10 All of the above but master of #?

# 11 Jack of all trades but master of none

# 12 None of the above I'm just here for the free coffee & donuts

# 13 Go ahead make my day I'm just here to antagonize people

3 - Jewelry



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/07/2015 10:01PM by devilpookie.

# 6 and add Jewelry hunting and Surf/Beach to the mix.

I dont dive.

Hi,,yeah your right I should of had a Jewelry category I though maybe the Gold category would work for that and nugget hunters too...Perhaps a Silver category too or just like #? water,beach,nuggets,jewelry etc....JJ



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/07/2015 09:59PM by jimmyjiver.

10

5

#7

#7 (Incedentally, this is a grand idea JimmyJiver)

Hi Kevin,,Thanks I agree, I always wondered who hunts for what on here..There's so much talk about Iron/nails I get confused, it's a word that gets way to much attention....Hunting in a park etc. your dealing with rust flakes etc. too but you also have pull tabs and bottle caps etc.to deal with and there's very little mention of that on here....It's hard to specialize in all of the above, so for right now I'm focusing most of my attention on coins....JJ

1. Coin hunter....and depending on the area gold ring hunter....

Gold is too broad as we have gold nugget and gold jewelry hunters especially those that hunt beachs or water itself...

Hi Dan ,,I agree but you can put # 3 Gold...nugget,water, land,jewelry hunter etc.....When I created this I could not think straight I could of just left it blank but I thought I would try to make it easier for everyone....I'm surprised there's bottle hunters here too,I never heard that topic come up before....If I could post pictures I could display some of them too....JJ

#1- Old Coins, my favorite, no clad. #2- If found hunting old coins. #3- if found hunting old coins. #4- If I come across an old bottle dump, I'm going back and grabbing my three prong hoe fork and staying awhile.

#10 and master of free coffee and doughnuts, especially during one of these ice box feeling periods.
I would like more info on meteorite hunting. So JJ it seems you forgot another.

#2 90% of the time...old coins 10% usually as a by-product of relic hunting

Hi tnsharpshooter,,,,I really did not forget any.. LoL...try this for size...# ? meteorite hunter...JJ

#6 works, but jewelry not nuggets. 9 fits also. WTH, lets throw in 11 too!

For the past 3 or 4 yrs it's been #7 and #13 Jimmy :-D

but this year I'm switching again (for about the 4th time in 30+ yrs)

I am going back to gold (water/jewelry) hunting as my #1 this year (starting in spring) with relic and coin hunting going to become my secondary focus for a while.

P.S.

bottles are a by-product of detecting for me

I scuba dive so I find then in lakes/rivers/etc. but I also go bottle dump diggin on occasion too...



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/07/2015 11:53PM by MichiganRelicHunter.

3, 1, 2

#5

Relics are awesome coins right behind

7

Relic; coin; jewelry!

I'll hunt for anything but I do like #5

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If you don’t dig it, then how are you going to know what you’re missing!
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1,4

3 prong hoe fork? put up a picture of that thing. I have a bottle dump for us to go to when deer 2nd season is over.

6

# 6

2 mostly. 3 on occasion. Never have been much on hunting specifically for modern coins. The idea of driving $5-10 worth of gas to hit and run tot lots or parks only to find some corroded coins that the bank won't take and coin machines spit back out....just doesn't make sense to me. I could probably get into old coin hunting if I lived in an area that held the potential for such. Unfortunately, my area is historically known for poverty and "hillbillies". Until TVA came on the scene, the majority of jobs in this area were timber company jobs. Lots of people in the rural areas didn't get electricity or indoor plumbing until the late 1970s and early 1980s. People just didn't have the money to lose.

My dad grew up in a house built in the 1850s up until around the 1970s. It was torn down in the mid 80s. When I started getting into metal detecting, dad told me when he was a boy, he and his brothers would crawl under the house and porch and find coins they could go buy candy bars with. I inquired about what kind of coins...Dad doesn't know coins well but he said they were the dimes with the seated lady on them. I about had a fit. My first seated coin came from that place though. They bulldozed the house down I still find stuff over there when I go.

Hi,,,I hear ya on the clad Daniel....I won't even bend down to dig small denominations of clad,but I will not turn down a quarter hit anymore....JJ



#1 Coin Hunter

#2 Relic Hunter

#3 Gold Hunter

#4 Bottle Hunter

#5 Coin,Relic Hunter

#6 Coin,Relic,Gold Hunter

#7 Coin,Relic,Gold & Bottle Hunter

# 8 Just here trying to learn more about #?

# 9 All of the above but trying to learn #? more

# 10 All of the above but master of #?

# 11 Jack of all trades but master of none

# 12 None of the above I'm just here for the free coffee & donuts

# 13 Go ahead make my day I'm just here to antagonize people