david680
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- Jun 4, 2014
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- Tesoro Bandido
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Found my first large cent yesterday. Struck out at the first site I went to. It was a long shot anyway. Went to this site specifically looking for something early. Strange place to go for that because nothing about the site would appear to have any age to it. However, this spring I had found a cut quarter of a 1797 8 Reale, and at the time assumed it to be a random drop, or even someones lucky pocket piece that they had dropped fairly recently. Considering that since had decided that I was just jumping to conclusions and that while it might have simply been a field when dropped, that I had no reason to assume anything about the site. It is now a park and modern use is probably 40 years or less. I have never even found a wheatie there. So yesterday I went back to the general area that I had found the Spanish piece and started detecting. Not much was happening, not even clad, so I headed to the exact area that I had found it. Within 10 minutes got a good tone about 3-4 inches down popped out the largie. Appears to be a 1826. I love it when a plan comes together! Most of mine don't. Anyway, found just a few clad coins, and a lot of modern junk. Going to have to hit this area again, and see if there are anymore surprises!
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