bookfisher
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Between the extremely frigid winter and my lack of finding good spots to hunt here in densely populated Western Suffolk County, Long Island, my finds have been few and far between. So today I decided to hit a field that a few years ago produced some great finds, such as: 1734 King George II copper, a worn smooth large English cartwheel penny, an 1877-s Seated Liberty Half Dollar, along with an 1877-s Seated Liberty Quarter, found about 50 to 75 yards apart and probably dropped by the same person. Also found were several Large Cents, a Half Cent, Indian head pennies, relics and buttons. Now I hunted this field at least 50 times, probably more, with some hunts not even producing a decent signal after two hours. So on my way there, I'm really not that optimistic, and I'm thinking of hitting a section where the weeds won't be too high. Well I get there, and the weeds are real high and with the large amount of crab apple trees in this section, I can barely move. Anyway, I start finding some small open spaces where I can swing the coil, and I dig a few iron hits, just to let me know somebody was in this section long ago. After a little while, I'm saying to myself if I find one keeper I'm outta here. So I find myself bending down and hunting in between these crab apple trees, where there's some clear land. I finally get a good signal, though I don't think it was penny/dime, and dig the plug, remove some more dirt, and just barely glanced a dirt encrusted disc in the pile. I pick it up and it so encrusted that I thought it was an Indian Head (in spite of the thinness, I wasn't thinking), I then start rubbing the dirt off and was really psyched to see silver! Some more rubbing and the date of 1760 clearly came into view. Needless to say it was a fantastic feeling and that's the reason why we're addicted to this hobby.
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