Next Meeting

Mon Aug 29 @
Dunham Library,
Main Street
Whitesboro, NY
6:30pm - 8:30pm

Mark Your Calendar and Open Your Wallet

EARTH CLUB PICNIC - SEPT 10, 2022

Coin by coin, ring by ring...

that is how a treasure is made!

Newsletter August 2022

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Competition Winners for July 2022

Best Coin Best Jewelry
Winner: Mike Parker Winner: Kenny Price
Entry: 1851 Matron Head Large Cent Entry: Old Pendent w/women’s portrait
Location: Main Street, Whitesboro Location: Middlefield, NY Homesite
Detector: Whites XLT Detector: Equinox 6000
Value: $20.00 (ish) Value: Collectable
2nd Place: Ken Price, 1805 Draped Bust half cent 2nd Place: Dave Dylis, Lg. Diamond
3rd place: Mary Lou DosRosier, 1943 steel cent (maybe) Earring
Number of Entries: 7 3rd Place: Mike Parker, Butterfly Ring
Number of Entries: 5

Best Other Mystery Category –

Winner: Lori Fealey
Entry: Metal Figurine Best Toy Vehicle
(Hoofed Man w/pointy ears) Winner: Matt Lenhart
Location: Bernhards Bay, NY Old Homesite Entry: Tootsie Toy Car
Detector: Deus Location: Vernon, NY Homesite
Value: Collectable Detector: Nokta Macro Simplex
2nd Place 2-way tie: Ken Price, Toy Value: Collectable
Gun / Mike Parker, Colonial Button
3rd Place 2-way tie: Bob Thomas, Tylus 2nd Place 2-way tie
Incubator Thermometer / John Bradlinski, Mike Parker, 1950s Wedge
Water proof camera Dragster /
Number of Entries: 12 Mike Wusik, Old Tootsie Car
3rd Place Kenny Price,
Dinky Toys Triumph TR2
Number of Entries 8
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These photos are from the

EARTH Metal Detecting Club
picnic in 2016. We were
unable to get the Delta Lake
State Park Beach that year
so we moved to the Verona
Beach near Sylvan Beach.
The beach hunting area was
way smaller than Delta but
we still had a great time. You
can see it was a little windy
too judging by the waves.

Nobody has a Picnic Like The EARTH Club

Excitement is mounting over the EARTH Metal Detecting
Club’s John Seamon Memorial Picnic and Hunt. For any-
one who is new to the club, this event gives you the
chance to hang out and chat with club members. You get
to see detectors like your own and view the other detec-
tors that are on the market.
However the most important part of the picnic (besides
eating food) are the club hunts. There maybe some fine
tuning to be done with the hunts but they should be like
last year. Set Up Starts at 8 a.m.; Silver Hunt - 9 a.m. to
9:45; Speed Hunt - 10:15- 11:00; Lunch from 11 a.m to
12:15 p.m.; Vile Hunt for Cash 12:15 -12:30; Treasure Key
Hunt - 1:00 - 1:45 (This year there will be 3 keys to treas-
ures)
Last year there was a 5th hunt, which was 15 minute
speed hunt which costs an extra $20 for a chance to win a
metal detector. The officers are still working on the 5th
hunt.
The first 4 hunts are included in the $30 fee per detector.
Schedule is subject to change.
Bring a Dish to Pass
The club is providing hamburgers and hot dogs.
So far we have have members bringing cabbage sauer-
kraut, pepperoni rolls, watermelon, potato salad, seafood
salad, corn, water and soda.
Need an Idea of What to Bring!?
Desserts, salads, sausage roll, baked beans, macaroni
salad, deviled eggs, pulled pork, chips and dip, tomato pie,
pickles, cheese, shrimp, donuts. No mater what we will
have a great time. Please leave your diets home.
RAFFLES PRIZES
Don’t forget to bring a raffle price. The picnic raffle is a
great fund raiser for the club and it can be fun to win a
prize. Just think of something you would like to win and
perhaps that will help guide you in your decision what to
bring.
Also...
Bring a comfy chair as we might have to use more of the
picnic tables for the raffles as Larry will not be able to
bring tables. Or you might want to bring a card table or the
like if you have one.
We will be discussing the picnic at the Aug. 29 meeting.
August, 2022 EARTH Metal Detecting Club of CNY
OCT 28 AT 2 PM – OCT 30 AT 6 PM
DIGSTOCK IV Near Plattsburgh, NY
Digstock IV will once again revisit the beautiful and
historic area known as the North Country in upstate
New York. The property where the event is being held
sprawls across 4500+ acres of farm and woodland
south of Plattsburgh, NY on a new farm. It contains
35+ historic hotspots dating from the late 1700’s up
into the late 19th century, with many more old home
properties abutting up to the event area. As with all of
our events, there will be manufacturer support, awe-
some raffles, great giveaways, and special guests to
meet! There will also be a special raffle just for the
awesome members of our veteran community that
join us. On-site we will have The Dogfather food truck
to fix you up with some great eats throughout the
weekend.
This event is limited to 275 participants, is $215 per
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person to attend, and includes a Riker case to display
your finds. Children 12 and under are FREE, but we
will need a Liability Waiver filled out for them to be on-
site.
A pre-hunt rules meeting will take place on Friday,
October 28th on-site and a refresher will be given
bright and early on the first day of the hunt. As always,
we will have special guests, great giveaways, awe-
some raffles, manufacturer support, food trucks on-
site, and a special FREE raffle for our Veterans.
An email will be sent out a few days before the event
with specific site information and the map will follow a
day before the start of festivities. This event is rain,
snow, or shine, so be prepared! If you have any ques-
tions, please send us an e-mail at info@dig
The Mystery
Category for the
July meeting was
toy cars, a find that
is always fun to
unearth. There
were at least 20 toy
cars found and on
display at the last
meeting. The air-
plane was from
another year.
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Interested In The
Hobby of Metal
Silver & Gold & Junk Update
Detecting, This Is Silver coin values below are based on live silver prices at the CME.
For You ! These coins were in standard circulation until silver was removed from all
I have a large selection coinage in 1965 and 1970 (40% silver half-dollars). The values below
of metal detecting items only reflect the silver value, not rarity or numismatic value. This table
that I will be selling. should only be used as a guide for buying and selling silver coins. These
Anything from detectors,
coins are sometimes called "junk silver", but I really dislike that term. All
coils, head phones, dig-
gers, 1874 maps of hunt values shown in USD.
sites, there are too
many items to list. If you Coin value calculations use the 2:15 PM PDT silver price for August 19,
are interested or know of 2022: Silver $19.08/oz -0.48
anyone that may be
interested, give me a call Description Face Value Silver Value
at: 315-363-9668
or 315-761-8158 1942-1945 Nickel * $0.05 $1.0735
And ask for Ralph, or
leave a message and a 1892-1916 Barber Dime $0.10 $1.3802
phone # and I will return 1916-1945 Mercury Dime $0.10 $1.3802
your call ! Thank You
For Sale: Whites
1946-1964 Roosevelt Dime $0.10 $1.3802
Classic III with stock 1892-1916 Barber Quarter $0.25 $3.4505
coil + snipper coil /
bought new in the 1916-1930 Standing Liberty 25¢ $0.25 $3.4505
early 2000 from
Jerries Treasure Den
1932-1964 Washington Quarter $0.25 $3.4505
in Syracuse / 1892-1915 Barber Half Dollar $0.50 $6.9011
Machine is clean and
only lightly used / 1916-1947 Walking Liberty Half Dollar $0.50 $6.9011
Asking $150.00 / Call
or Text Ex-EARTH
1948-1963 Franklin Half Dollar $0.50 $6.9011
Club member Jim 1964 Kennedy Half Dollar $0.50 $6.9011
Petrello @ 315-338-
3047 or email: 1965-1970 Half Dollar (40% silver) $0.50 $2.8218
jimkatie93@gmail.co
m
1878-1921 Morgan Dollar $1.00 $14.7574
1921-1935 Peace Dollar $1.00 $14.7574
Metal Detector For 1971-1976 Eisenhower Dollar (40% silver) ** $1.00 $6.0337
Sale: Blue colored
circa 1980, Vintage 1986-2013 Silver Eagle (.999 Silver) $1.00 $19.0609
Bounty Hunter 840,
Discriminator * The U.S. Mint issued two compositions of the nickel in 1942. The stan-
VLF/TR metal detec-
tor. Operates with
dard copper-nickel composition used today and the 35% silver version
two included 9 volt listed here.
batteries. Metal ** The 40% silver version of the Eisenhower dollar was issued as a col-
detector works and lectible only, they are generally not found in circulation. The best way to
is in very good con- distinguish the two versions is by weight. The copper-nickel version
dition. One original
owner. It is your for
weighs 22.68 grams, the silver Ike dollar weighs 24.59 grams.
$70.
Call 315-525-9753
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Calendar Earth Metal Detecting Club of

Central New York
August 29 - 6:30 ....................... Dunham Library Contact Information:
Earth Club Meeting Lost Items:
Larry Ehlinger
September 10 ................ Earth Club Picnic (lpehlinger@hotmail.com)
September 26 ................ Earth Club Meeting David Lofgren
(dlof20@hotmail.com)
October 24 ...... Earth Club Meeting Date is a change from normal
Marge Ferjet
November 28 ............... Earth Club Meeting (fogwhisper@outlook.com)
December ...................... Christmas Party
Memberships/treasurer
lenhartearth17@yahoo.com
Newsletter Submissions:
Michael Parker -
scxpress@aol.com

Website:
earthmetaldetecting.com
Website Submissions:
Next dlof20@hotmail.com
Meeting Nothing Like
Mon Aug 29 Local Honey,
“Get involved,
make a difference,”
Dunham Former EARTH President
Library, It Goes On John Seamon
Main Street Anything!
Whitesboro Bob’s Honey
6:30pm -
8:30pm
is Available at
Metal Detecting
Our Monthly
Code of Ethics
Meetings 1. Respect the rights and property of
others.
2. Observe all laws, whether nation-
al, state, or local, and aid law enforce-
ment officials whenever possible.
3. Never destroy priceless historical
or archeological treasures.
Sorrell Creative Works 4. Leave the land and vegetation as
it was; fill in all holes.
Club member Pete Sorrell has started a web page titled 5. Remove all trash and litter when
Sorrell Creative Works. The site features a variety of items for you leave.
6. All treasure hunters may be
sale with the theme of artwork that appears on coins and mil- judged by the example you set;
itary items. Products range from apparel, homeward, acces- always conduct yourself with courtesy
sories and drinkware which includes anything from stickers, and consideration of others.
to mugs to t-shirts and the like. www.sorrellcreativeworks.com/