Two Feet From the Edge

Of the sidewalk that is. In a well-heeled place that is the target range for many coins to suddenly jump from and out of the clothes of babes, fiends, businessmen and barmaids alike. Why this is is beyond me but it is. In a more traveled and unscanned area the odds tend to gravitate towards the outer rim as well and for some unspeakable reason I have found a good handful or so of 1950s wheats near the entrance doors of several schools.

This theory also applies to the outside parameters of playground areas as well. You know, the wood-chipped areas that are usually enclosed with some kind of plastic buffer. Outside of the square ring there usually is a hairline of softly coated woodchips and beneath these chips are where I've found some good-ins. A gold ring, a Kennedy half, multitudinous "clad", etc. Which is quite out of the ordinary seeing as there isn't much ground to be covered outside these parameters of play. I highly suggest though that you don't dig to China trying to uncover the next Golden Eagle. A garden trowel and a cylindrical plug dug out of the ground worth of soil should do the trick. Anything more is just plain gauche.

Middle School Coin-nundrum

I know that I shouldn't be giving away my detecting secrets but seeing as there is a lot of space in the world and more schools than any one man can search I will tell you this: middle schools are chock full o' finds. No, I haven't found anything resembling this fashionably hand-crafted pirate middle school medallion special but change galore and a ring or two I have. In fact, out of all the places I have ever waved the magic arm-wand, middle schools rank number one in mass finds.

I think the main reason is because middle school kids are the most inclined towards stupidity. Younger kids are less encumbered with exchangeable means though they are more prone to reckless play. High school kids have more of a sense of responsibility and there is a formation of frugality despite their mindlessness. But it is the middle school kid who is most burdened with fledgling emotions, prurient thoughts and a general disdain for all human pursuits besides their own edge of the moment endeavor. This pursuit includes acting the fool. Foolishness leads to abandonment and that always leads to free coins for me!