Out In The Sticks: $0.99 + £1.00

Today was my first real detecting trip! We were invited by a family friend to visit their abandoned vegetable garden on a 40-acre property, deep in the prairies. There were many interesting sights on the way, like an enormous, glittering sea of crap cars topped off with this monument:

After picking bucketfuls of beets and potatoes, we stopped in Canada's largest fully enclosed national park, and I dug out my metal detector. But fear not - my only target was the playground, as I assumed the sand didn't count as Canadian national property. Plus, it's always nice to pull out the nails and bent wires before some kid can step on them. Families from all over had come to picnic, and the weather was perfect for outdoor physical activity (20 degrees, intermittent clouds). Here's the haul:

I found my third ATB Quarter from any source, a Glacier-P (so I found a national park quarter in a national park - and it's the closest national park to the national park I found it in. Uncanny.) And yes - that's a pound sterling. So this park must be a site of international renown. Like all pound coins I've seen, it's well-loved (and the alloy is a bit soft to begin with, so this amount of wear seems typical).

All combined, it came to the store-like total of $0.99 (plus tax?!) and one pound (today, worth $1.61). Not bad!