Coins to be Found
Please email pthc.news@gmail.com if you find one of these and claim your prize at the next monthly meeting.
Coins Found
December 2019
None found.
Quarters from previous years
(These are in the America’s National Park quarters series (2010-2021) American Samoa P / Virgin Island P / Mount Hood P / Grand Canyon P / Acadia P / Hawaii Volcanoes P / International Peace Memorial P /
White Mountain P / Great Smokey Mountains Nat. Park P /
New York Fort Sumter National Monument Site P /
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore P / Voyageurs National Park P / Cumberland Island National Seashore P
New 2019 Quarters
Be the first club member to find, with your metal detector, one of the newly minted quarters with the mint mark “W” (for West Point mint), and claim a special prize of a silver half dollar. Keep an eye on your finds pouch!
Lowell National Historical Park in Massachusetts PDW /
American Memorial Park in Northern Mariana Islands PW /
War in the Pacific National Historical Park in Guam PW /
San Antonio Missions National Historical Park in Texas PDW /
Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho PDW
Sacagawea Dollars
2011 P / 2012 P / 2013 P & D / 2014 P & D / 2015 P & D / 2016 P & D / 2017 P & D / 2018 P & D / 2019 PD
Presidential Dollars
​No new issues of Presidential Dollars until a former president of the U.S. dies.
Grant P / Hayes P / Garfield P / Arthur PD / Cleveland PD / Wilson PD / Taft PD / Theodore Roosevelt PD / McKinley PD / Harding PD /
Coolidge PD / Hoover P / Franklin D. Roosevelt PD / Truman PD / Eisenhower D / Kennedy PD / Lyndon B. Johnson PD / Nixon PD /
Ford PD / Reagan PD
PILCHUCK TREASURE HUNTING CLUB
2019 Fall Hunt
The Frank Lupien Memorial Hunt
October 5, 2019: Thornton A. Sullivan Beach Park
Summary
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16 members
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$750 in clad, silver, and tokens to find
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45 minutes
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Potluck
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PTHC members and families
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Story
16 members swarmed the beach like a rabid pack of Canada Geese, though less noisy and unsanitary. For 45 minutes they swung and probed and dug and bent and stooped, loading their finds pouches with coins, tokens, and coarse Washington state sand.
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As varied as the hunters and the tools of the trade in use, there was one commonality: find as much of the planted $750 in coins (silver and clad) as possible.
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For an October hunt in WA, we caught a break: the rain held off until just minutes before hunt’s end, and it was a very light rain at that, which bothered none present, particularly those of us observing the hunt from the dry confines of the rented picnic shelter.
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Time was called at 10:45 and all made their way to picnic tables and chairs to count the found treasure. After all tokens were turned in for silver, we were quite surprised to see an unusual number left unfound: 26 dimes, 6 quarters, and 4 halfs.
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Some notable finds include the silver dollar (provided by PTHC) found by Lloyd M., a risqué button, and some type of fabricated token (not planted by PTHC) found by Ray D.
Hunt History
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The Frank Lupien Memorial Hunt was named in honor of one of our founding members and his generous bequest to the Pilchuck Treasure Hunting Club. Frank passed in 2001. He served in World War II in several major arenas including Saipan, Okinawa, and Nagaski. After the war, he attended and graduated from Everett C.C. and the UW with a Business degree. Other lifetime memberships included Everett Elks Lodge #479, Veterans of Foreign War Post #2100, American Legion Post #6, University of Washington Alumni Association, Everett Eagles Aerie #13, and the 2nd Marine Division Association.