Last night's 9 coin cache- one of my top moments in this hobby/sport....(long)
I think this story/adventure goes to "something" we all have experienced in this awesome hobby or you will experience if you stick with it.....
I'm going to keep last night's adventure as unwordy as possible without losing the effect....and I also know this comes on the heels of some pretty great finds of late for me...and I'm sure for Mark G. too......but to be quite honest we've been hunting hard and I'm a firm believer in the definition of luck being when hard work and opportunity meet.
Mark G. told me about this old beach on the Delaware River that his Dad and Uncle used to go to....so we went to it.....looked like an old beach to me with nice sand, some humongous trees, a ton of trash (this entire region sadly is infested with trash), a gradual incline, etc......so we started out in the dark at around 6:30 and hunted for a good 2 hours and got nothing other than pure trash...not even an old sinker..Mark said it was a prime fishing spot for Shad too...
To add injury to insult on the way in Mark fell in a stream flowing down into the Delaware and his headlight blew a diode or two......me I'm just thoroughly burned out from hunting way too much.......
Well Mark says the proverbial let's get out of here...well he actually said something alot more flowery and not for kids to hear....and I was all with him.....both our wives are home watching 24 and I had told mine I'd see her for
that.
Mark's detector is off and he's heading up the trail and I'm walking on a different route out with my detector on and basically like a zombie pushing the coil around.......get a beep... foot aside a bunch of leaves, loose dirt....
swing again and look at the meter.....yea ok nother piece o' crap......stick my lesche in pop up some dirt....push dirt around ready to leave....wait round silver object.....probably a rosie..maybe Barber....hey Mark wait a second...pick it up ...I THINK ITS A SEATED.....YEA YEA BOTH ARMS OVER MY HEAD PUMPING now!.....MARK RUNS DOWN THE TRAIL ........GRABs it OUT OF MY HANDS CAUSE I NEED BIFOCALS.......(you had to be there)..
He's like 1876........and its in as good a shape as I have ever found........I could have left right then and there. honestly being burnt and then getting high is exhaustng.....
Swing the coil again same spot I'm like Mark I think something else is here.........
We worked hard and keep diggining and swinginng and cutting roots.......the 1862 Silver Canadian 10 cent piece was barely a whisper.... I was shocked....saw it better than I actually heard it..
We started saying okay alternate finds and the total was 6 Shields dated: 1867 no rays, 1870,1876, 1867 with rays, 1868,1869......2 seated dimes the 1876 in unbelieveable shape and an 1853 in almost as good....and the canuck '62 which turns out to be some sort of special...they were made in 1864 and 1862.....New Brunswick addition.
The pics are below....we think we got everything.....there was some form of marker right where they were...large stone or cement marker which looked to me to have association to a property.....
I am totally curious now about this whole area....am going to take a bunch of pics to help this story....
You have to see this place at night and imagine someone or several people there....what were they doing....who were they....what happened to them..........aloha johny mc.
I think this story/adventure goes to "something" we all have experienced in this awesome hobby or you will experience if you stick with it.....
I'm going to keep last night's adventure as unwordy as possible without losing the effect....and I also know this comes on the heels of some pretty great finds of late for me...and I'm sure for Mark G. too......but to be quite honest we've been hunting hard and I'm a firm believer in the definition of luck being when hard work and opportunity meet.
Mark G. told me about this old beach on the Delaware River that his Dad and Uncle used to go to....so we went to it.....looked like an old beach to me with nice sand, some humongous trees, a ton of trash (this entire region sadly is infested with trash), a gradual incline, etc......so we started out in the dark at around 6:30 and hunted for a good 2 hours and got nothing other than pure trash...not even an old sinker..Mark said it was a prime fishing spot for Shad too...
To add injury to insult on the way in Mark fell in a stream flowing down into the Delaware and his headlight blew a diode or two......me I'm just thoroughly burned out from hunting way too much.......
Well Mark says the proverbial let's get out of here...well he actually said something alot more flowery and not for kids to hear....and I was all with him.....both our wives are home watching 24 and I had told mine I'd see her for
that.
Mark's detector is off and he's heading up the trail and I'm walking on a different route out with my detector on and basically like a zombie pushing the coil around.......get a beep... foot aside a bunch of leaves, loose dirt....
swing again and look at the meter.....yea ok nother piece o' crap......stick my lesche in pop up some dirt....push dirt around ready to leave....wait round silver object.....probably a rosie..maybe Barber....hey Mark wait a second...pick it up ...I THINK ITS A SEATED.....YEA YEA BOTH ARMS OVER MY HEAD PUMPING now!.....MARK RUNS DOWN THE TRAIL ........GRABs it OUT OF MY HANDS CAUSE I NEED BIFOCALS.......(you had to be there)..
He's like 1876........and its in as good a shape as I have ever found........I could have left right then and there. honestly being burnt and then getting high is exhaustng.....
Swing the coil again same spot I'm like Mark I think something else is here.........
We worked hard and keep diggining and swinginng and cutting roots.......the 1862 Silver Canadian 10 cent piece was barely a whisper.... I was shocked....saw it better than I actually heard it..
We started saying okay alternate finds and the total was 6 Shields dated: 1867 no rays, 1870,1876, 1867 with rays, 1868,1869......2 seated dimes the 1876 in unbelieveable shape and an 1853 in almost as good....and the canuck '62 which turns out to be some sort of special...they were made in 1864 and 1862.....New Brunswick addition.
The pics are below....we think we got everything.....there was some form of marker right where they were...large stone or cement marker which looked to me to have association to a property.....
I am totally curious now about this whole area....am going to take a bunch of pics to help this story....
You have to see this place at night and imagine someone or several people there....what were they doing....who were they....what happened to them..........aloha johny mc.
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Like your write up too. I have yet to find any of those coins. It's amazing that so many of these stories are still happening. Way to go and thanks for the post.
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