Bet You've Never Seen This Before

SD51

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Went detecting today with a buddy named Steve and we hit an area that produced two Gold class rings this summer, so I decided to dig every single pulltab signal. After pocketing about thirty of those precious beauties, I get another pulltab signal and look what appeared in the hole...

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Yes, the tree root decided to grow right through the pulltab! If this had been an actual ring, I would have cut the root to remove it. I cut the pulltab instead. Trust me, no trees or tree roots were damaged in the removal of this target, but a few hundred Aluminum electrons were somewhat inconvenienced!

My reward today for removing over sixty pulltabs was in the form of a 1924 Merc...

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While walking back towards my car, Steve pull a 1946 Rosie and I get a signal that I expected to be a zincoln. Instead, this 20 Kroner coin from Denmark surfaced!

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A 1958D wheatie surfaced too along with a bling ring and the normal amount of clad so we had a great day out in the field!
 

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Chug And Red

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Ive seen roots thru them but not that big HH Chug Looks better with a Gold ring ive had one Sry no pics of that one :hello:
 

xr7ator

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Bet I have several times including an actual ring. Nice merc!
 

Reanm8er

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Roots have rights too!

Congrats and best wishes ------Phil

Sorry I said that wrong!

Ruts hae rats tew!
 

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No gold in NY

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Obviously, you saved the root from certain strangulation. You are to be commended. Nice Merc, I love Mercs
 

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Congratualtions! :occasion14:
 

vpnavy

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Nice finds SD51. However, I would have really been tempted to pull that root and tab out, sealed it and mounted it on a nice piece of wood for display! Thanks for sharing...
 

Rookster

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Nice finds.Congrats
 

Blak bart

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Great work sd, nice merc for your work !!
 

Trezurehunter

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Nice finds. Actually I have seen that before. Around 15 years ago, I had the same circumstance with a small tree root that grew thru the hole of a token I was digging. Its pretty neat to see how nature takes over.
 

neodetectorist

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I think I attribute my pull tab digs to my 5 gold rings I have found.
Some of my areas are well hit too.
"Dig it all"!
 

A2coins

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I found a ring once with a root through it cool find why were people obsessed with pulling pop tops off thier cans lol
 

Whyme

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Nice finds! :icon_thumleft: Nice Merc. Pretty cool the root was in the tab!
 

BigWaveDave

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I got one....
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Couple years ago, wifey wears it.
 

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