Do you keep your first find?

[Coins4Cheese]

For me, I made an effort to. When I got my Ace 250 on the 28th, the first target that I dug was a battery. I left it on the counter, and it accidentally got thrown out. I know I shouldn't get upset over a battery, but it was my first find. So I was wondering, do you guys keep the first object that you found with your detector?

 

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[TORRERO]

I started hunting in 1985 ...

SSSOOO

I can't remember what my 1st target was.....
I have kept many things over the years that are rare and beautiful...
but not my 1st target...

 

[tentpegs]

I started metal detecting while i was in the army no i did not keep my first signal. Which was a 1964 penney.

 

[Chug And Red]

My first find was a bottle cap!!! Tossed it!! i do have the first coin i found 1978 penny!!
HH chug

 

[wreckdiver1715]

If I kept my fist find all I would have is a small handful of pull tabs in a jar. However, I did keep my first significant find, of a Dead Eye, and some lead sheeting from a shipwreck I have been hunting for many years. My first Eight Reale coin the wife had put into a setting and turned into a necklace that I proudly wear every day.

Tom

 

[miser]

For me, I made an effort to. When I got my Ace 250 on the 28th, the first target that I dug was a battery. I left it on the counter, and it accidentally got thrown out. I know I shouldn't get upset over a battery, but it was my first find. So I was wondering, do you guys keep the first object that you found with your detector?

No I didn't, but I can understand why people would want to. It's like keeping the first dollar you ever earned.

 

[turtlefoot13]

I honestly don't remember my first find. I do have my first coin, a nickel (found in 1986 with a Brinkman Treasure Sensor) and my first and only wheatie (found in 1989 with a White's Coinmaster Classic III). I too can understand wanting to keep the first find though.

Doug

 

[DBFISHER]

my first find was a beat up Dale Earnhart butane lighter, I still have it today sitting on my night stand.

 

[TORRERO]

I honestly don't remember my first find. I do have my first coin, a nickel (found in 1986 with a Brinkman Treasure Sensor) and my first and only wheatie (found in 1989 with a White's Coinmaster Classic III). I too can understand wanting to keep the first find though.

Doug

You have found only one wheat penny since 1989 ??
Been kindav a dry spell ??

Where do you hunt ?

 

[Keppy]

I do not collect BUT I DO have my first find the first thing i ever got a signal on and dug was a -- 20 g -- scale calibration weight back in April of 1981... it sets on my desk in my little home office that i use for my comuputer and do my bills. I remember so well it was a saturday morning and a light rain was falling found it with my first detector a Garrett freedom Coin Commander.

 

[mrwilburino]

I don't have my first find but I do have my first coin. I found this one with a Jetco Treasure Hawk in 1974 when I was thirteen years old. I can still remember the moment I pulled it out of the ground. Couldn't have been more excited if I had found a pot of gold! Ran straight home and put it in a holder.

 

[Keppy]

Yes a lot of things you forget but i remember that first find like it was this morning and can picture it and see it like it just happened.

 

[turtlefoot13]

I honestly don't remember my first find. I do have my first coin, a nickel (found in 1986 with a Brinkman Treasure Sensor) and my first and only wheatie (found in 1989 with a White's Coinmaster Classic III). I too can understand wanting to keep the first find though.

Doug

You have found only one wheat penny since 1989 ??
Been kindav a dry spell ??

Where do you hunt ?

I took a leave from the hobby for a few years but I hunt almost exclusively in the woods looking for logging relics and shotgun brass. I have only hit one tot-lot and one park in the last several years. I am going to try to get some coinshooting done this summer/fall though. I have some home sites from the 1880's-1920's to hit. I am in hopes of finding some silver and older coins. (I am trying to widen my horizons a bit )

 

[TORRERO]

Yes I kept my first good find.....
but that was 25 years ago and now I can't tell which one it was...

HELP !!

 

[Tuberale]

First thing I found was a 1968 Lincoln memorial cent, followed by a 1973 Roosevelt dime. Nope. Spent 'em. I almost never keep the common stuff: way too common.

 

[rocky735]

Yeah, Even though it was just a 1988 clad quarter dug with a cheapie detector 2 or 3 years ago.

 

[spartacus53]

I have kept my first "real" finds and they are mixed in a plastic bag from that summer. My first hunt I found a whopping $0.07 cents and a ton of garbage I was always thinking that at the rate of my finds, I would never recoup the original investment