Here's a few I found in a 1956 United Bowling Alley. No gold pieces, but not bad..
Haha, I had found a Mercury dime in a Bowling Alley, but metal detecting is one of
my Summertime hobbies. Years back, I use to go out a lot. These are some of one
of the Summer's hunt..
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Thanks. Between 1988 and 1992, if the weather permit, I went out coin hunting much of
my spare time. I took that pic a while back for the "Other Hobbies thread". That's the better
of the coins I found in one of the Summers. For each year, I kept the better coins apart from
the Wheaties, Memorial, clad coins, ect. Once I bought my property, all time went into it. I'm
going to start getting back into the detecting a little bit. Maybe this week I'll get some pics
of some of the interesting coins I've dug up (most coins are usually between 3"-6"), can hear
them to about 10" deep..
Over the years, I built a vintage park down back, but beginning to run out of space and projects,
so I'm sure I'll be getting back into metal detecting once again.
When I was younger, when seeing people detecting, I remember saying, "look at those idiots out there",
but later I realized that it's actually a great hobby..

All the coins I found back in the early days I used a Whites Pro Plus.
Maybe 7 years or so ago I paid $700.00 plus for a Whites MXT and didn't go out with it
until last year, and it doesn't function properly. I should have checked it out when first
new, but I'll be sending it in for repair before the end of Winter. Maybe I'll send the Pro
Plus in also for freshening up. It's been a great detector..

By far the best coin I heard found in a coin op machine..
btw: what did you give for the slot?