Peanut Treasure Jar

Peanut Treasure Jar

Last year before the travels, I was gifted with a glass, mason looking jar that read “Aventure Awaits”. It’s metal lid had a slot for inserting coins. I asked myself “Did I have to limit it’s contents to just coins? ” Why couldn’t I put all my finds from my travels in it? This became the inception of the “Treasure Jar”. The total, is the current amount of coins in the jar, that I have found, mostly metal detecting. Last year’s total was $3.87, which I expect to surpass, this year. This year i decided to go to a bigger container, the Peanut Jar. Okay….it’s plastic, but the exciting part is filling it with all sorts of treasures! Follow along the travels and every week we will post pictures and a list of the new items that were found. Also there is a running total of the coins. It’s going to be an amazing journey…Come along!

July 2nd Weekly Peanut Treasure Jar Update

Another week in Seaside, Oregon, only spending one day of treasure hunting on the beach. The results were a handful of trash which was disposed of, a piece of melted silver or aluminum, 35 copper with gold color plating treasure coins, and 26 cents. This brings the total to $2.99 in the peanut treasure jar. Check out the pictures below. I am getting closer to reaching last year’s total of $3.87. Look in the blue area below and see everything currently in the peanut treasure jar.

July 2nd Treasure Jar Accumulation

This Week’s New Finds

July 2nd Treasure Jar Amount $2.99

Inside The Peanut Jar

As of June 25th, we are already starting to collect some interesting item in the peanut jar. Every week I will update the list of items, pictures of new weekly finds, what our total amount of change is, and a story about one of the items we found. Be sure to follow along as we keep adding to the peanut jar on this years travels. Below are a couple of videos of last years treasure jar.

June 25th

  • A key
  • A small bottle with found gold
  • A bullet casing
  • A small sinker
  • A small metal bead
  • A flattened novelty penny from the Newport Aquarium
  • A square horseshoe nail
  • 3 seashells
  • A Guess Keychain
  • An inflation needle for sports balls
  • An arcade token
  • A small hand bicycle ( it won’t fit in the jar)
  • A metal nut for a bolt
  • A melted piece of aluminum or silver
  • 35 gold colored treasure coins
  • $2.99
  • see what we find next!!!

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