Buckeye3
Greenie
- Joined
- Nov 10, 2017
- Messages
- 10
- Reaction score
- 141
- Golden Thread
- 0
- Location
- North Central Ohio
- Detector(s) used
- Garrett AT Pro
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
My interest in metal detecting started about 3 years ago as a direct result of watching The Aquachigger on YouTube in an attempt to break the monotony of nursing school. This led to becoming addicted to studying U.S. Civil War history in my spare time and it wasn't until March of this year that I decided to purchase a Garrett AT Pro and get out in the dirt myself. There is very minimal Civil War history (besides a camp that is now the grounds of a National Historic Landmark) in my area so my hopes of ever finding a relic from that part of history was nonexistent. Boredom got the best of me this week so I called my grandma up to see if I could detect her yard, not expecting to find much because although it is a very old town of about 200 people, her house is circa 1960. My first signal turned out to be a mostly intact chamber pot almost 2 feet deep and it wasn't until then that she told me there was a used to be a house on the property from the 1850s that burned. In about 3 hours I dug a few buckles, some lantern parts with a pat. date of 1890, a Tootsie car from the 1950s, four wheaties, a 1936 Merc, some brass doohickies, and managed to find a marble and part of a clay pipe bowl in a hole. It was extremely hard to dig due to the amount of pie tin pieces that the lady next door used in her garden to scare the birds away so after awhile I stopped digging those signals. As the sun was setting I was working my way back to the car and got a solid 60s tone next to the garden (I assumed it was more pie tin but said, "Why the hell not" as it would probably be my last hole). I dug about 8" and a Civil War Great Seal Infantry "I" button was staring back at me. In complete disbelief I jumped up to go clean it up. I should have ended the hunt on that note but boy am I glad I didn't. About a foot away I got another signal so I dug it hoping it would be another button. Due to the darkness it simply looked like an aluminum seal to an old ointment tube so I threw it in my pocket to admire my button. Imagine my surprise when I read "HALF DIME" on the object that I assumed was junk. It turned out to be a (completely mangled) 1850 Seated Liberty Half Dime with a New Orleans mintmark. What I thought was going to be a typical hunt turned into the best hunt I've ever had. I apologize for this being so long-winded and I appreciate everybody taking the time to read!
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