coinman123
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Last month I made a list of all 1700's through mid 1800's homestead sites in my town (the magic of Google Earth overlays). Today I went to one of them with my old man. I quickly realized that we were not the first ones to detect there. I found a few holes and mason jar lid on the side of one of the holes. We decided to go down a steep hill, behind the cellar hole, after I found a Victorian blue enameled iron backed button. We noticed a narrow trail, leading to a lake. I also noticed a small filled in cellar hole, or stone foundation (for a barn or shed maybe) on the side of the trail. I decided to detect the woods on the side of the trail. My father starts screaming, "Oh my god!!!! I just found a silver!!!!! A Mercury Dime!!!" I couldn't believe it, I almost never see silver dug when I am out though I see a lot of it posted. I was very happy for him finally finding his first! I have only found 3 silvers (including a war nickel) so the experience was very exciting. Not bad for the first coin that has been dug on a hunt I was on this year. I also got a signal at the same time he got his dime signal. A nice quarter signal. I was hoping it would be a large cent, and disappointed when I saw a clad quarter on the side of the hole. I decided to check the hole again and got a 62 signal, I was very confused because nickels are a 58 on my metal detector (I assumed it would be a nickel due to the clad quarter before hand). I grabbed a clump of dirt from the hole and saw a beautiful gold edge. In the clump was a beautiful 10k gold ring. I check the hole again and got another signal which I assumed had to be another coin. Sure enough it was a 1963d Lincoln cent. I tried again and got a weird 60s signal, the signal ended up disappearing and turning into iron (typical of a nail or something else small made of iron). I also noticed that the ring had small amount of iron staining on the surface (which I rubbed off easily with one swipe of a finger). My father ended up finding the handle off of a possibly colonial pewter spoon. We both also found tons of shotgun shells, 1960's cans/pulltabs. Not a bad day!
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