Do you remember your first

ppratt

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Jun 19, 2003
352
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South western PA
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Spectrum XLT
Do any of you guys remember your first coin you found. My first coin was a 1916 Wheat cent. First silver dime same day 1916 -s Barber Dime. First IH 1898 same day also. My first silver quarter 1950 it was a week later.

do you remember the first coin that you didn't know what it was. Besides my first barber dime the first day out. It was about 6 months after detecting I found a 1849 large cent. I had no idea what it was. I never had to go that far back in the red book before.
 

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MDnoob

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Apr 23, 2003
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I think the first coin I found was a late70's early 80's penny; can't remember exactly. Shortly thereafter, I found another one, my third coin was a 1917 cent. First silver was a ring made from a 64 Kennedy half.
 

SILVERHOUND

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Apr 19, 2003
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RALEIGH,NC
IM NOT SURE WHAT MY FIRST FINDS WERE,BUT THEY WERE CLAD.I DO KNOW THAT MY FIRST WHEAT CENTS,FIRST AND SECOND BUFFALO NICKELS (30&35),FIRST TWO MERCURY DIMES(43&44)ALL CAME LATER THE SAME DAY AT THE SAME SITE.THE SITE WAS A OUTDOOR AMPHITHEATER BUILT IN 1930.THE ROWS BETWEEN SEATING WERE GRASS.THAT WAS THE FIRST DAY(1989) OVER THE YEARS IVE PULLED QUITE A FEW KEEPERS OUT OF THERE.NOT BAD CONSIDERING THE SITE HAS BEEN HAMMERED HARD.


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Dsorgnzd

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Sep 23, 2003
34
71
North Carolina
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Teknetics Patriot,
White's5900 Di Pro,
Compass Relic Magnum 7A
My first coin was a fairly new penny. I still have it - it's glued to my old Compass RM7A detector with silicone seal (the friend who introduced me to metal detecting had done the same thing with the first coin he found).
 

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DrewShade

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ahh yes my first on fri dec. 13th her name was amber.....My first find was a schlitz malt liquor bottle cap and my second was a magnum trojan wrapper. My frst coin was a 1965 P dime and a penny that some old man (who I think felt bad for me) through out in the sand for me to find :) I have had better luck since then my coin totals have doubled each time out..But I have yet to find any pre 65 coins.....
 

Spirit

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Jun 12, 2003
76
1
Philly
First coin was a penny at my parents (probably lost it when climbing the willow tree). First silver was a ring at a beach, first silver coin was at a park college students use when the roomie was studying :)
 

warthog steve

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Mar 23, 2003
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5
Brown City,Michigan
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Garrett 1350GTA for dry,Fisher 1280X for wet........
Cant remember my first coin, but I sure do remember my first ring I found-a 14KT gold ring with 2 black pearls in it-I also remember what I did with it-I went and gave it to a girl-bad move,we broke up shortly after that;never got the ring back!!!
 

jedihepner

Tenderfoot
Jan 9, 2004
9
0
Mount Carmel, NE PA
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Whites DFX
I remember my first coin. I was detecting after work in the near by field and got a reading of .5 for a depth on my new DFX. I stooped down and swept away the straw from the dirts surface, as I did a coin went sliding across the ground that I was clearing. I picked it up and thought that it was really cool that I found my first coin, a quarter! Gently, between my thumb and fore finger, I rubbed it to get a look at the date and was stunned to see the words "ONE CENT" staring at me. Never before had I seen a large cent and was caught totally off guard! Beside myself I went inside straight away and washed it off to find that I now possessed an 1853 large cent in perfect condition. The second coin I found was about 100 yards away from the first in the same field. It was the following day and at about 4 inches down I pulled out a 1841 seated liberty dime in fair condition! After that I was hopelessly hooked on metal detecting!!!!!
 

Rich in Texas

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Jun 23, 2003
463
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San Antonio, Texas
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Whites DFX, MXT X2, Exploder, and Classic III
I found my first coin in 1973 in Germany with my Dad. It is a 1949 10 Pfennig coin that I still have. It has great sentimental value to me now because of being the first and because I have since lost my Dad. I have a container full of coins that I found there. I found everything from German, French, and Dutch coins, all the way back to Roman coins out in the fields. It was an awesome place to detect.
HH All
Rich
 

MDnoob

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Apr 23, 2003
450
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Where were you in Germany?

I lived in Muenster for a few years. I had no detector there, but thought about that alot. The thing is, no matter where I was in Germany, I would always be worried about diggin' up goodies of the explosive variety. I recall three times in two years they had to stop construction in Muenster because of old bombs.
 

birdman

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Jan 28, 2005
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Equinox 800 and ORX, tesoro Cibola with garret,whites and minelab pinpointers
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Detecting in Germany rocked! I have been gone from there for over a year and still go through withdrawls. :'( First coin I ever found was a modern dime in about 92.
 

Eu_citzen

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Sep 19, 2006
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Sweden
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First coin was 1 krona 2006.
 

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