Blast from the past!

I wanted to start this post off with a little bit of information concerning coin finding on the streets. For those of you who spend time metal detecting, it’s a well-known fact that after a storm is usually the best time to hunt the beach in search of coins and other treasures. The coastal storms churn up the sand and the dunes and brings to light those items that were once buried deep below. The same thing applies on land as well. Take for instance a line of violent thunderstorms, their torrential rains pound the streets and surrounding landscape, i.e. gravel, sand etc. that border the roads. After it’s over, large amounts of those substances are moved, churned up if you will, and those things that were buried come to the surface. Some of the best finds have come after a storm and today was no exception.

As you might have already noticed, there’s a picture of a war coin above. This particular one was an old world war II 503rd NCO coin. As it turns out, this coin once belonged to a member of the 503rd Airborne Parachute division that fought 5 important battles in the Pacific theater. The unit was disbanded shortly after 1945 so I’m guessing that it’s at least as old as 1945 and perhaps a little older. Michele found it on her morning walk with Lexi and when I saw I knew it was something unique and historic. It was in a washout down on River Street and had probably been buried there for the last 60 or so years. It’s just one of those neat finds that we come across every once in a while.

As for the money totals, we found 18 cents and 14 bottles and cans. As I mentioned earlier, Michele went out for her morning walk with Lexi and found 5 pennies plus the war coin. I found one penny in front of the 7-11 on my run (2 ½ Miles), and on our evening walk, we found 2 pennies at the skateboard park and one dime in the Springvale hardware parking lot. All in all a good day and a time to reflect.

Over and Out!

Money totals for 2006 - 111.33
Money totals since Jan. 2005 - 228.68

Bottle and can totals for 2006 - 6927 - 346.35
Bottle and can totals since Jan. 2005 - 16,949 - 847.45