Do you remember the first coin you found with a detector?

[thrillathahunt]

Found my first coin 22 years ago........and it was a memorial penny. I don't remember the date.

 

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[Blackjack77]

Indianhead with a cheap Bh detector! don't remember the date- certainly not a key date!!-

 

[Tank69]

yep

 

[extractor]

It was a penney.

 

[BuckleBoy]

A clad dime was my first coin. I saved it, because thousands of coins and almost two decades later I have a bit of nostalgia towards the little dime. I also need something to curse when I get skunked ("You damned dime, look what you started!" )

That little dime is responsible for a lot. I've worn out 4 cars in half as many years (all but one died on detecting trips or research trips). I'm allergic to bee stings now from digging into a yellow jacket nest back in 1993 (Lots of stings). I have no living space now for all the dug junk laying around. I get "plowed field fever" every harvest. I get "plowed field withdrawal" every summer. I met the most fantastic woman I've ever loved through this great hobby and this great website.


Little dime, I praise you. 8)

 

[thrillathahunt]

A clad dime was my first coin. I saved it, because thousands of coins and almost two decades later I have a bit of nostalgia towards the little dime. I also need something to curse when I get skunked ("You damned dime, look what you started!" )

That little dime is responsible for a lot. I've worn out 4 cars in half as many years (all but one died on detecting trips or research trips). I'm allergic to bee stings now from digging into a yellow jacket nest back in 1993 (Lots of stings). I have no living space now for all the dug junk laying around. I get "plowed field fever" every harvest. I get "plowed field withdrawal" every summer. I met the most fantastic woman I've ever loved through this great hobby and this great website.


Little dime, I praise you. 8)

Hmm......are those wedding bells I hear in the distance?

 

[willie d]

My first was a quarter in the big empty lot behind my apartment 8 years ago.

 

[BuckleBoy]

A clad dime was my first coin. I saved it, because thousands of coins and almost two decades later I have a bit of nostalgia towards the little dime. I also need something to curse when I get skunked ("You damned dime, look what you started!" )

That little dime is responsible for a lot. I've worn out 4 cars in half as many years (all but one died on detecting trips or research trips). I'm allergic to bee stings now from digging into a yellow jacket nest back in 1993 (Lots of stings). I have no living space now for all the dug junk laying around. I get "plowed field fever" every harvest. I get "plowed field withdrawal" every summer. I met the most fantastic woman I've ever loved through this great hobby and this great website.


Little dime, I praise you. 8)

Hmm......are those wedding bells I hear in the distance?

If so, you can bet that most of Tnet will be invited.

 

[thrillathahunt]

I think it's amazing that you all still have your first find! My son who is 11 still has his first coin found when he was 7 (it is a foreign coin).

 

[thrillathahunt]

A clad dime was my first coin. I saved it, because thousands of coins and almost two decades later I have a bit of nostalgia towards the little dime. I also need something to curse when I get skunked ("You damned dime, look what you started!" )

That little dime is responsible for a lot. I've worn out 4 cars in half as many years (all but one died on detecting trips or research trips). I'm allergic to bee stings now from digging into a yellow jacket nest back in 1993 (Lots of stings). I have no living space now for all the dug junk laying around. I get "plowed field fever" every harvest. I get "plowed field withdrawal" every summer. I met the most fantastic woman I've ever loved through this great hobby and this great website.


Little dime, I praise you. 8)

Hmm......are those wedding bells I hear in the distance?

If so, you can bet that most of Tnet will be invited.

 

[Tank69]

cant you just see it now ...............if anyone see's why these two shouldnt be together please raise your detector ..................lmfao to funny..............instead of throwin rice we throw pop tops an clad...

 

[BuckleBoy]

cant you just see it now ...............if anyone see's why these two shouldnt be together please raise your detector ..................lmfao to funny..............instead of throwin rice we throw pop tops an clad...

Pop tops and clad? Ouch! At least throw silver roosies.

 

[Tank69]

lol
I bet we can come up with enough cans to tie to the bumper

 

[BuckleBoy]

lol
I bet we can come up with enough cans to tie to the bumper

Hell, I'll donate my can collection. I thought half of 'em were CW buckles before I dug 'em.

 

[richm]

I don't recall the first "coin" that I found but The first time that I used a detector was in the early seventies. I rented it from the local coin shop, went up in a big field on a hill. My very first signal was a sterling ring. When I cleaned it off it was a man and woman in a very compromising position From that day on I was hooked......Rich. P.S. I was sixteen and gave the ring to my girlfriend. Her dad took it and filed off all the naughty parts and gave it back to her. This is a pic of the same ring I found from the internet!!

 

[Barbersinger]

Nope! It was probably clad and I thought whoop dee doo.
Boy! I need to get out more.

 

[boogeyman]

My first was a Wheatie with an old Whites tuber that weighed more than I did. Funny thing, everything was Wheaties & silver.

Oh yeah, my ratio was 6lbs. nails to each coin. God bless whoever invented discrimination!

 

[thrillathahunt]

I can only fantasize about hunting where there are only wheaties and silver everywhere you went!

My first was a Wheatie with an old Whites tuber that weighed more than I did. Funny thing, everything was Wheaties & silver.

Oh yeah, my ratio was 6lbs. nails to each coin. God bless whoever invented discrimination!

 

[Xraywolf]

I don't remember the 1st coin, I do remember the 1st silver.
About a week after I got it, I found a quarter and dime, both from the 1940's, in the same hole.
I got chills, and involuntarily took a quick look around, feeling that someone might run up and snatch them from me.
My oldest daughter, 8 at the time, 4 years ago, found a 1976 Kennedy half the first day out in our backyard, I couldn't believe it.
It was about 3 inches down, and couldn't really tell what it was until we cleaned it a bit, it was pretty crusty.
She was so excited she tripped about 3 times running in to show her mom what she had found.
Sadly, her interest in detecting didn't remain for very long.

 

[BuckleBoy]

I don't recall the first "coin" that I found but The first time that I used a detector was in the early seventies. I rented it from the local coin shop, went up in a big field on a hill. My very first signal was a sterling ring. When I cleaned it off it was a man and woman in a very compromising position From that day on I was hooked......Rich. P.S. I was sixteen and gave the ring to my girlfriend. Her dad took it and filed off all the naughty parts and gave it back to her. This is a pic of the same ring I found from the internet!!

LMAO! Now That's a story.