Metal Illness
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- Jul 1, 2011
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- Detector(s) used
- Minelab E-Trac
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
It's rough but qualifies for my admittance into the 1700s club.
I found this little gem Sunday 11-16-14, hunting a heavily iron infested farm house built in 1831. I have pounded this site pretty hard and any clean targets are gone. I have found 5 LCs, 3 Indians, only 6-8 wheaties. Every time I'm there all I can imagine is finding my first capped or seated silver. Before Sunday my only silver from here is 2 war nickels and a merc. Hunting the E-trac in TTF moving very slow I hit the choppy 39/40 signal, expecting at most a wheaty. It took 2 days before another detecting buddy identified it for me, boy was I surprised after finally realizing, I had found 1700s Silver!! This 1/2 Reale is worn out and used up, but it is however:
My first 1700s coin
My Oldest found coin
My Oldest Silver coin
My first 1/2 Real
1. One of the pillars with banner. 2. M with o (mint mark) 3. Letters "IND" 4. H I of HISPAN, this is what Olentangy recognized in order to identify this for me.
PS: Still looking for my first Seated and Capped Silver
Thanks for looking, Bill
I found this little gem Sunday 11-16-14, hunting a heavily iron infested farm house built in 1831. I have pounded this site pretty hard and any clean targets are gone. I have found 5 LCs, 3 Indians, only 6-8 wheaties. Every time I'm there all I can imagine is finding my first capped or seated silver. Before Sunday my only silver from here is 2 war nickels and a merc. Hunting the E-trac in TTF moving very slow I hit the choppy 39/40 signal, expecting at most a wheaty. It took 2 days before another detecting buddy identified it for me, boy was I surprised after finally realizing, I had found 1700s Silver!! This 1/2 Reale is worn out and used up, but it is however:
My first 1700s coin
My Oldest found coin
My Oldest Silver coin
My first 1/2 Real
1. One of the pillars with banner. 2. M with o (mint mark) 3. Letters "IND" 4. H I of HISPAN, this is what Olentangy recognized in order to identify this for me.
PS: Still looking for my first Seated and Capped Silver
Thanks for looking, Bill
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