Steve in PA
Gold Member
- Joined
- Jul 5, 2010
- Messages
- 9,616
- Reaction score
- 14,271
- Golden Thread
- 4
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA
- 🥇 Banner finds
- 4
- Detector(s) used
- Fisher F75, XP Deus, Equinox 600, Fisher 1270
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
EDIT: Scroll down if you just want to see the Franklin half.
Here is my weekend recap....you will see the answer to my title riddle further down.
I started out Saturday morning at one of my early sites. I have been pounding this site since 2012, but the farmer had recently plowed, and didn't plant yet. Right off the bat, 25 yards into the field I get a strong signal, look down and see this.
My first thought was Copper! Right on the surface! This is gonna be a good hunt!
Well that was pretty much the highlight of the hunt. Instead of a copper it was a large button that somehow dodged the coil for 8 years. Here is the take from the colonial phase of my weekend.
The little watch winder was interesting as it was similar to a larger one I found on another site years ago.
After three hours swinging and stumbling over a lumpy plowed field with very few breaks to dig a target, I got in touch with my buddy Nick to see about getting together to detect his 100 year old farm house. This is a large farm house with a wrap around porch and a lot of ground around it. I thought it would be loaded, he didn't expect to find anything.
I gave Nick a crash course on my back-up machine, a Fisher F75. Here he is going to town with it.
After several hours of digging pennies and modern dimes, I got a solid 97 in all directions on my XP Deus. I called Nick over and said this might be a half dollar. For once I didn't jinx myself.
Seeing that it was a silver half, I plucked it from the dirt fully expecting to see a Walker. But no, it's a Franklin half!
It's been over 30 years since I found one of these. This is only my third one. I have found three Barber halves and about a dozen Walkers since I last found one of these.
Here are the two silver founding fathers
And here is the silver with the hole in it
Nick and I relaxing after a hard afternoon digging in his yard
Here is my weekend recap....you will see the answer to my title riddle further down.
I started out Saturday morning at one of my early sites. I have been pounding this site since 2012, but the farmer had recently plowed, and didn't plant yet. Right off the bat, 25 yards into the field I get a strong signal, look down and see this.
My first thought was Copper! Right on the surface! This is gonna be a good hunt!
Well that was pretty much the highlight of the hunt. Instead of a copper it was a large button that somehow dodged the coil for 8 years. Here is the take from the colonial phase of my weekend.
The little watch winder was interesting as it was similar to a larger one I found on another site years ago.
After three hours swinging and stumbling over a lumpy plowed field with very few breaks to dig a target, I got in touch with my buddy Nick to see about getting together to detect his 100 year old farm house. This is a large farm house with a wrap around porch and a lot of ground around it. I thought it would be loaded, he didn't expect to find anything.
I gave Nick a crash course on my back-up machine, a Fisher F75. Here he is going to town with it.
After several hours of digging pennies and modern dimes, I got a solid 97 in all directions on my XP Deus. I called Nick over and said this might be a half dollar. For once I didn't jinx myself.
Seeing that it was a silver half, I plucked it from the dirt fully expecting to see a Walker. But no, it's a Franklin half!
It's been over 30 years since I found one of these. This is only my third one. I have found three Barber halves and about a dozen Walkers since I last found one of these.
Here are the two silver founding fathers
And here is the silver with the hole in it
Nick and I relaxing after a hard afternoon digging in his yard
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? How come you're not crying? Arms and legs not cramped? Still have rubber on your shoes? No blood? What the hell? You guys on a picnic? It looks like a good time. Enjoy!!
