scaupus
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Saturday, I went to a new spot. Funny, I'd driven by it any number of times and dismissed it as a very low priority location. Doy!! New research had just moved it to the top of my list the night before, so here I was finally. Anyway, it is a lovely spot with nice trees and thick, healthy St. Augustine grass...when this type of grass is thick, you can sort of tunnel into it, and dig a nice size hole, and when you cover it up you can barely tell you've been there. First time it rains afterward, and even that little bit of dirt lying around disappears.
Well, I was there only a few minutes when I get a shrill half dollar tone from my White's eagle spectrum. Usually that means trash. But this time it's clean; a perfect, round, stable 90, the right size for a coin, it doesn't change values as I move the coil over it...golly, it looks like it's really a half dollar down there! I could hardly believe what I was seeing and hearing; it never even occurred to me that it might be a clad Kennedy. You can imagine my disappointment...oh, wait, my mistake, it was indeed a lovely Walking Liberty!
I was elated, more for my research method being validated again (for about the 63rd time) than for having dug up this beautiful old coin that was still here in the grass with people going on about their business around me just as they had decades earlier when this coin had slipped out of someone's pocket. Well, I was elated for both reasons. This is a lovely hobby.
Well, I was there only a few minutes when I get a shrill half dollar tone from my White's eagle spectrum. Usually that means trash. But this time it's clean; a perfect, round, stable 90, the right size for a coin, it doesn't change values as I move the coil over it...golly, it looks like it's really a half dollar down there! I could hardly believe what I was seeing and hearing; it never even occurred to me that it might be a clad Kennedy. You can imagine my disappointment...oh, wait, my mistake, it was indeed a lovely Walking Liberty!
I was elated, more for my research method being validated again (for about the 63rd time) than for having dug up this beautiful old coin that was still here in the grass with people going on about their business around me just as they had decades earlier when this coin had slipped out of someone's pocket. Well, I was elated for both reasons. This is a lovely hobby.
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