| Coin Hunting or 'Coin Shooting' as it's often called, is | | | | often the first buildings built in many towns. Right |
| not only very fun to do, but it can easily be very | | | | here where I live are numerous churches, and one |
| profitable. Finding just one gold piece or any rare coin | | | | was built in the early 1700's. Church buildings not only |
| can easily pay for the cost of the metal detector. | | | | housed people on sundays but, most were wedding |
| When it comes to Coin Hunting or 'Coin Shooting', | | | | sites, reception halls, dance halls, dinner sites, ice |
| there are some places that I call 'hot spots', or the | | | | cream social locations, group meeting spots and much |
| best places. | | | | more. |
| Riverbanks - Ponds - Lakes - Swimming Holes: These | | | | Woods - The woods can be awesome for metal |
| locations are true treasure hunting top spots. The | | | | detecting if one knows what to look for. Look for |
| Riverbank is a huge area that can provide a lifetime | | | | old paths, those are great places to detect along. Old |
| of detecting. River banks were used as ferry | | | | paths in the woods served as shortcuts to open |
| crossings, and some had covered bridges with toll | | | | fields for farmers to get their equipment through, or |
| stations. The local old timers may be able to tell you | | | | for cattle to follow and more. In a wooded area not |
| where the local fishing and old swimming spots were. | | | | far from where I grew up as a child I know where |
| Remember many of the old fishing spots were also | | | | there is an old path, now grown up with trees and |
| drinking and partying spots, and at the swimming | | | | bushes, most folks would overlook it or not know it's |
| holes a lot of people took off their outer clothes, | | | | history. My grandfather and dad built the road by |
| losing change as they did. And going back even earlier | | | | blasting stumps with dynamite and by hand cutting |
| in the years, folks would take their clothes to the | | | | trees. They used the path to quickly get tractors, |
| riverbanks to wash them in the water. The same | | | | and other farm machinery to another open field |
| goes for old farm ponds, many were used as a | | | | below the woods. Just imagine the number of times |
| favorite summer time swimming spot or picnic area. | | | | my own dad and grandfather probably sat along that |
| The banks and shores of rivers, ponds, streams, | | | | old road, eating their lunch or sipping some cool |
| lakes etc, are great locations for coins, jewelry, | | | | lemonaid underneath the shade of a large tree. Any |
| trinkets and more. | | | | time someone sat along a road eating lunch, they |
| Schools - Churches: These are also 'HOT' areas for | | | | would often pull an old cloth hanky from their pocket |
| metal detecting, most towns or even rural areas | | | | to blow their nose or even wipe their mouth, often |
| have a school, some have multiple ones. Schools that | | | | losing some pocket change at the same time. |
| are currently open during school season are a great | | | | Another rare but great metal detecting site that can |
| place to find modern coins and even a few clad | | | | often be found in the woods is old stone foundations |
| coins, also numerous trinkets, diecast cars, and | | | | and old stone chimneys, each has the potential for a |
| cheaper jewelry items can easily be found on | | | | rare gold coin or a jar of old silver dollars. Remember |
| modern school grounds. | | | | at one time this old stone foundation or fireplace was |
| If you are as lucky as I am, then you live in a rural or | | | | part of a familys home, with kids playing, parties and |
| country area that keeps a lot of their old buildings. I | | | | numerous outdoor activites. |
| know where there are two old buildings that served | | | | Some other great Metal Detecting sites are - Parks, |
| as one room school houses, these places were open | | | | Beaches, Old Ball Fields, Playgrounds, Fairgrounds, |
| in the late 1800's to the early 1940's. Just imagine the | | | | Camping Sites, Camps, Ghost Towns, Battlefields, Old |
| wonderful finds these old grounds may be hiding. The | | | | Picnic Spots. Make sure that you have permission to |
| old one room school houses also served as churches, | | | | search and dig in any location you are going to do |
| social halls, farm grange buildings, and as meeting | | | | your detecting at. |
| places for scouts, ladies aid societys and more. | | | | There is Computer Software that is made just for |
| Many old Churches and one room schol houses had | | | | the hobby of Metal Detecting. The software is called: |
| there own treasure chests, that's right. When these | | | | 'Metal Detector - Treasure Hunter Professional', and |
| buildings were constructed, the local kids and adults | | | | may be seen at this website address: |
| would bury a chest on the grounds or under a corner | | | | By Robert W. Benjamin |
| stone of the building. The chest was a sort of time | | | | Copyright © 2006 |
| capsule containing coins, newspapers and other | | | | You may publish this article in your ezine, newsletter |
| unique items from the time when the building was | | | | on your web site as long as it is reprinted in its |
| erected. Many of these old buildings rotted away | | | | entirety and without modification except for |
| over time, and folks forgot about the buried time | | | | formatting needs or grammar corrections. |
| capsule located near the corner stone. | | | | Robert W. Benjamin has been in the software |
| Searching the land a church is on is like searching for | | | | business on the internet for over 5 years, and has |
| a pirates loot, you never know what you may find. | | | | been producing low-cost software for the past 25+ |
| And a lot of churches are very old, even many of | | | | years. He first released products on the AMIGA and |
| the modern ones are like schools, they are built on | | | | C64 computer systems in the late 1970's-80's. |
| the grounds where old ones stood. Churches were | | | | |