MinelabSwinger
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I got out last week with a old friend I had not detected with in quite some time. Due to a recent robbery of my car I had to borrow my fathers XLT. The first field we hit did not produce much more than a few musket balls. So we decided to hit the remnants of a 1 room school house. This school was in operation from 1859-1910. My grandmother attended this school from 1905-1910 when they moved to a 4 room school house up the road.
We had been there about an hour when Rob told me he just found 3 Indian heads in 1 hole....I was excited for him but it was getting close to the time I had to pick up my kids at school so at the same time I was feeling rather anxious to find something myself. I decided to move out front near the road....After relocating to the front I hit a choppy signal in the 32 VDI range. Now this is an older site so I usually dig everything with a repeating signal. After a minute or so I had in my hand a old cameo brooch. It was missing most the cameo but the gold plating was still mostly intact. By this time Rob had worked out towards me and we said we had better get motoring.
Just as he said that I had a solid repeating 84 VDI. After pinpointing it rang up at 8" deep. Now I did not have much hope for this signal as it was so close to the road but I dug it anyway. After flipping the plug I decided to recheck the signal....
It was gone! I scanned both the hole and the plug then rescanned again. NOTHING. .....Now I figured my batteries were low and my machine was playing tricks on me. I filled the hole back in and for giggles hit it again. Once again I was greeted by a solid +84 VDI....I stood scratching my head for a few seconds but decided to reflip the plug and drug some dirt out of the hole onto my cloth. I once again rescanned the hole to confirm the depth and just as before the signal was gone!!! #()_$#&^@ machine! Why are you doing this to me I was thinking! I can hear my wife yelling in the back of my mind " you were late to get the kids for a ghost signal " You fool!! Well to clear my mind I stuck my pin pointer in the hole to see if it hit anything metal. It rang out right in the bottom of the hole. So I carefully scooped some soil out and ran my hand under the coil of the XLT... Imagine my surprise when the machine beeped! After sifting through the dirt I saw a round coin. Similar in size to a large cent but it felt slightly heavy.
I had some water with me so I rinsed it off in the woods without rubbing it hoping to make out the bust of the large cent or perhaps a date. Well staring up at me was a sundial and the words FUGIO. It had a ton of detail from what I could tell. I showed Rob and rechecked the hole. After filling my hole we hightailed it back to my house so I could go grab my rug rats.....Well I cleaned the coin by simply rinsing the dirt off because I didn't want to jeopardize any of the detail.
After getting home and doing some research I determined it had to potential to have a decent value. Well tonight I decided to look at it through my loop. After doing so I noticed the double border on the reverse. It was clearly stamped off center but it appears to be double stamped. I did get a weight of the coin and it weighs 10.53 Grams.... That is about all I can determine. I was hoping someone here could give me an idea of value or variety. I had worked out a deal with Rob to trade him for a unused DFX with the super 12 and stock coil for the coin however after seeing the double stamping I figured I had better turn to the experts to see if I should trade him or not. I know the photos are poor quality but you can clearly see how much detail is on this coin and the double stamping. I will try to get better photos tonight but its tough. When the dirt bag's who robbed my car took my wallet and detector... They got my digital camera also. Sigh
Thanks for reading about my adventure
We had been there about an hour when Rob told me he just found 3 Indian heads in 1 hole....I was excited for him but it was getting close to the time I had to pick up my kids at school so at the same time I was feeling rather anxious to find something myself. I decided to move out front near the road....After relocating to the front I hit a choppy signal in the 32 VDI range. Now this is an older site so I usually dig everything with a repeating signal. After a minute or so I had in my hand a old cameo brooch. It was missing most the cameo but the gold plating was still mostly intact. By this time Rob had worked out towards me and we said we had better get motoring.
Just as he said that I had a solid repeating 84 VDI. After pinpointing it rang up at 8" deep. Now I did not have much hope for this signal as it was so close to the road but I dug it anyway. After flipping the plug I decided to recheck the signal....
It was gone! I scanned both the hole and the plug then rescanned again. NOTHING. .....Now I figured my batteries were low and my machine was playing tricks on me. I filled the hole back in and for giggles hit it again. Once again I was greeted by a solid +84 VDI....I stood scratching my head for a few seconds but decided to reflip the plug and drug some dirt out of the hole onto my cloth. I once again rescanned the hole to confirm the depth and just as before the signal was gone!!! #()_$#&^@ machine! Why are you doing this to me I was thinking! I can hear my wife yelling in the back of my mind " you were late to get the kids for a ghost signal " You fool!! Well to clear my mind I stuck my pin pointer in the hole to see if it hit anything metal. It rang out right in the bottom of the hole. So I carefully scooped some soil out and ran my hand under the coil of the XLT... Imagine my surprise when the machine beeped! After sifting through the dirt I saw a round coin. Similar in size to a large cent but it felt slightly heavy.
I had some water with me so I rinsed it off in the woods without rubbing it hoping to make out the bust of the large cent or perhaps a date. Well staring up at me was a sundial and the words FUGIO. It had a ton of detail from what I could tell. I showed Rob and rechecked the hole. After filling my hole we hightailed it back to my house so I could go grab my rug rats.....Well I cleaned the coin by simply rinsing the dirt off because I didn't want to jeopardize any of the detail.
After getting home and doing some research I determined it had to potential to have a decent value. Well tonight I decided to look at it through my loop. After doing so I noticed the double border on the reverse. It was clearly stamped off center but it appears to be double stamped. I did get a weight of the coin and it weighs 10.53 Grams.... That is about all I can determine. I was hoping someone here could give me an idea of value or variety. I had worked out a deal with Rob to trade him for a unused DFX with the super 12 and stock coil for the coin however after seeing the double stamping I figured I had better turn to the experts to see if I should trade him or not. I know the photos are poor quality but you can clearly see how much detail is on this coin and the double stamping. I will try to get better photos tonight but its tough. When the dirt bag's who robbed my car took my wallet and detector... They got my digital camera also. Sigh
Thanks for reading about my adventure
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