Tricked in the hole

[unfound]

The other day I was at an old foundation back in the woods. I've hunted it before....big iron..drives you crazy...but the place is a couple hundred years old and there just gotta be something cool there. Anyway I get a nice deep signal, it ends up being about ten inches deep, its gotta be good right?

I see it in the hole...an old trigger guard. I'm all pumped that I finally found something at this old site that made me feel good about hunting there. In the keeper pouch it goes and I decided to call it a day as the tick and mosquitos had joined forces and were planning thier next attack. I swear I saw them get in formation. So I get home and start cleaning it up...what? no way..it can't be....hose clamp...

Anyone else have any good stories of finding something that you thought it was and it wasn't ?

 

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[releventchair]

Shiny silver size ten (resting on spoon) had me thinking nice big ring...l.o.l..Aerator off a faucet.

 

[slowwevo]

lol ..I have had some fake jewelry,but I knew it probably wasn't real,you saved that hose clamp from certain doom

 

[DocBeav]

LOL yeah, had the same too, plumbing pieces that come out looking like rings till you see the threads!

 

[Limitool]

I dug a bicentennial coin from the 1970's that looked 10,000 years old when it came up. First thing I see is 1870 something. I'm PUMPED!!!!!! Then after cleaning a little bit more I see 1970 something. Talk about busting your balloon. I damn near threw it back into the hole it came from.... NOT! (but the thought crossed my little mine).

 

[g-olden years]

Yeah. Digging coins around big old tree by creek, I dug a dirt-encrusted "old" coin, just hint of woman's face & hair peeking out! I yelled to my son, "I got a Barber!", real excited as I hadn't dug any coin that old yet. Son raced across the little park to view my Barber, but by the time he reached me, she had turned into -- Susan B. Anthony! I was more deflated than a popped balloon at a kid's party! Andi

 

[Msbeepbeep]

That was a nice find for a brief moment! Until the truth came to light.

Detector says "ring", I'm hopeful but not excited, dig down and see a glint of gold! Now I'm excited! Grab the clump of dirt, it's a gold ring! Till the dirt falls off revealing a gold nip cap! They should out law those things, or at lest paint them blue!

 

[Metal Militia]

I feel your pain. I thought I dug my first silver coin as I got a glimpse of a lady walking. Turned out to be a 1973 5 Francs. On a Texas soccer field of all things. Ever since then I don't celebrate until I know for sure.

 

[dirtdigginfool]

O yea...local fairgrounds that has been pounded,,but occasionally produces something interesting, and at 5 inches I pulled a copper colored coin, quarter sized with the green patina, and a little careful cleaning produced..??64 !! 1864 coin!! WOO HOO SCORE!!..but wait a minute..oh crud..1964..turned out it was a 1964 English half-penny. WORTH $3.00 per e-bay..o well, not the first time and wont be the last..thx..great thread...ddf

 

[coinman123]

I was almost sure I had another large cent, with a quarter signal, in the middle of a colonial site. I got the signal out, the top of a 1970's can . When I first started detecting I saw a metal disk the size of a large cent, it turned out to be an iron washer. Luckly after a year, I have found a few big coppers.

 

[BamaBill]

Mine was a reverse luck kind of story. I was taking the day off from work, for my birthday, and looking for a CW camp that I had been hunting for. Late in the afternoon I get a good signal near the tree line, after digging a lot of junk. And, out of the hole comes a penny that is so encrusted I can't quite tell how old it is and it kinda.... looks like a Lincoln. So, I picked up the detector and made my way back to the car. When I got home I carefully cleaned off the coin and what do I have, an 1864 IH. I was probably on the edge of the site I was looking for and just didn't know it. Haven't been back to that site since either, bit of a trip by car to get there.

 

[WHADIFIND]

Yeah, I have a VERY similar story. It's right here:

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/today-s-finds/325886-interesting-day-mansion.html

I love the tricks my ATP plays on me! LOL