Florida welcomes me with an 8 real! More silver still!!!

[Scrappy]

I had trip planned for Florida. The wife threatened me something fierce if I brought my detector with me...

Well a week before we left my CTX stopped working and I HAD to bring it to Kellyco for servicing. Soooo while my detector is in Florida I may as well hunt. So I went to the old maps and photographs of New Symrna and found a spot.

At first I was skunked, my one researched spot had failed...then I looked into another area separated by a barber wire fence. Asked the land owner who's land I was detecting and she owned that one too! So off I went and I quickly found cut nails and slate shingle holders. Then a 1910 and 1917 wheat...not bad...


Then I hit a drunks secret spot full of 24oz cans. Some buried, some not... I get a slamming hit, sounded like it was on the surface but the machine said it was 6". Another can?

I dig in...




Holy crap a reeded edge!!

Low and behold out pops a huge coin, bigger than any one before...




I didn't much want to hunt after that but kept going. I got nothing for a while, then a barber and some other foreign coin from the 1950's.

All I can say is Wow, just Wow!

 

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[46Wheat]

That is incredible

 

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[PaDirtDigger]

Ok, first off, great diggings for a florida getaway...

Secondly, what are those tiny octagons with the bent shanks? Ive found about half a dozen of those at a church, im thinking that they have something to do with siding or roofing? I like them cuz they make me think there is an earring in the hole!!

 

[cjon455]

Ok, first off, great diggings for a florida getaway...

Secondly, what are those tiny octagons with the bent shanks? Ive found about half a dozen of those at a church, im thinking that they have something to do with siding or roofing? I like them cuz they make me think there is an earring in the hole!!

old roofing nails, i think for slate shingles, and YES THEY SUCK!!! ring in like indian heads!

 

[Scrappy]

Ok, first off, great diggings for a florida getaway...

Secondly, what are those tiny octagons with the bent shanks? Ive found about half a dozen of those at a church, im thinking that they have something to do with siding or roofing? I like them cuz they make me think there is an earring in the hole!!

Thanks for the comment. I was told they're used to hold slate shingles on. I've found them at other sites as well and it seems they vary a bit in age.

 

[PaDirtDigger]

lots of work went into such a simple thing... They're cool

 

[pepperj]

Great looking silver and the Spanish moss hairdo is very fitting, congrats on the killer find and the success on the research. 2/8 is still a 25% average and I'd be happy with that anytime if the results were even close to yours.

 

[Scrappy]

What a coin, it reeks of awesomeness Did you get that hair idea from a diggers episode?

That was on diggers?! No way!!! How unoriginal if it's on network tv lol

Steve

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Nice 8 there Captain Scrappy! Arrrrgggg! You do know that pic will now remain in the T Net files for all eternity? Lol!
You and the CTX do a little "conspiring"?
Your beer drinking can thrower probably protected your 8 real from others finding it.

Well done and congrats! Awesome way to start a vaca!

 

[Scrappy]

Great looking silver and the Spanish moss hairdo is very fitting, congrats on the killer find and the success on the research. 2/8 is still a 25% average and I'd be happy with that anytime if the results were even close to yours.

Thanks Pepp. Those numbers probably aren't completely accurate . My vetting process might have started at 64 from maps, then 32, 16, then 8 actually looked good enough to visit. I winged this one completely with a couple photographs and a postcard, figured the proximity onto an old map, then overlayed. I was off by 100yds but luckily the owner owned the adjacent property.

 

[lowcountry]

Man!!!! I wish I hade gotten your message earlier before I took off for Florida!! I went to Melbourne and got about a dollar in clad We will hunt together someday my friend!!

 

[Scrappy]

Man!!!! I wish I hade gotten your message earlier before I took off for Florida!! I went to Melbourne and got about a dollar in clad We will hunt together someday my friend!!

Lol. I was planning on hunting Augustine but George told me over the phone that the place is super protected. Then I saw your post and thought is give you a shout. I'm sorry we didn't connect, judging from your posts you're a hell of a detectorist.

Steve