LawrencetheMDer
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- Feb 22, 2014
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- Detector(s) used
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Minelab Manticore, Minelab CTX3030 w 11" and 17" DD coils,
Minelab Excalibur II w 10" coil, Equinox 800 (4) w 11" and 15" coils,
Troy Shadow x2 w 7" coil, Pointers; Garrett Carrot, Pro Find 35,
- Primary Interest:
- Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
I’m a beach and surf kind of guy and usually hunt from Dec — May on the coasts of Florida. Back home, I turn to golf as my obsession. However, I got the MD itch and to scratch it I grabbed my CTX 3030 w 11” DD coil and went out in the yard for a few minutes. Or that was the plan. Little did I know my brief hunt would turn up several important finds.
I was hunting my front yard near the street and all of a sudden I noticed a figure standing nearby. I looked up and struck up a conversation with Roger, who recently moved to the area and has detected for 36 years. Well, before long we’re swapping info and I just may have found another MD hunting partner in my own front yard. What a great find! In addition, I found a clad dime; my first dime from the yard (only found cents and lots of trash, previously).
Talking of great finds, I was hunting the back yard and came across a close cluster of signals and my first thought was that it was 3 cents in close proximity. The pics explain the rest. The first target I recovered from the hole was a 1932 Washington quarter! Silver coins are as rare as Hen’s teeth for me — I usually hunt the surf and since 2014 I have found over 10,000 coins and I think 3 or 4 were silver (in contrast to 100s of silver pieces of jewelry). This is also the first silver I have found in my yard. [Hunted yard for 20+ yrs with Echo II, Excal, and the CTX with 17” coil.] Finding a silver coin in my own back yard really put a smile on my face.
But there’s more: the hole turns up cent after cent:
Suddenly I see a bright shinny edge. The hole gives up a white metal (silver?) Saint Carmel medal (1/2”). [Note; there happens to be a St. Carmel hospital in the area.]
In total, the hole gave up the 1932 silver quarter, St Carmel medal and 10 cents. Of the 10 cents; 3 were memorials (post 1958) and 7 were wheaties including an early 1923. The rest of the wheaties were dated between 1940 and 1953. Now that was some pocket spill …and in my own back yard.
P.S.: For those wondering - No, it was not my pocket spill from years ago, I'm not that old...well, I am that old but didn't live here at the time and could never afford any silver in my pockets at that age of life.
Happy Hunting
2019
Gold — 9
Silver — 35
Coins — 1683
I was hunting my front yard near the street and all of a sudden I noticed a figure standing nearby. I looked up and struck up a conversation with Roger, who recently moved to the area and has detected for 36 years. Well, before long we’re swapping info and I just may have found another MD hunting partner in my own front yard. What a great find! In addition, I found a clad dime; my first dime from the yard (only found cents and lots of trash, previously).
Talking of great finds, I was hunting the back yard and came across a close cluster of signals and my first thought was that it was 3 cents in close proximity. The pics explain the rest. The first target I recovered from the hole was a 1932 Washington quarter! Silver coins are as rare as Hen’s teeth for me — I usually hunt the surf and since 2014 I have found over 10,000 coins and I think 3 or 4 were silver (in contrast to 100s of silver pieces of jewelry). This is also the first silver I have found in my yard. [Hunted yard for 20+ yrs with Echo II, Excal, and the CTX with 17” coil.] Finding a silver coin in my own back yard really put a smile on my face.
But there’s more: the hole turns up cent after cent:
Suddenly I see a bright shinny edge. The hole gives up a white metal (silver?) Saint Carmel medal (1/2”). [Note; there happens to be a St. Carmel hospital in the area.]
In total, the hole gave up the 1932 silver quarter, St Carmel medal and 10 cents. Of the 10 cents; 3 were memorials (post 1958) and 7 were wheaties including an early 1923. The rest of the wheaties were dated between 1940 and 1953. Now that was some pocket spill …and in my own back yard.
P.S.: For those wondering - No, it was not my pocket spill from years ago, I'm not that old...well, I am that old but didn't live here at the time and could never afford any silver in my pockets at that age of life.
Happy Hunting
2019
Gold — 9
Silver — 35
Coins — 1683
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