kane23
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Hi,
Forty years wow! On my birthday in 1968 my mother bought me a cheap detector. They were all BFO's and TR's back then,no discrimination. I was 14 at the time,my first find was a penny hidden by a friend. I think my detector cost $30.00. I did'nt find much until my mother bought a better detector a General electronics Mark 1A. Mostly I searched the dirt along the side of city roads, but still found a lot. My first decent find was a 1902 blackened barber quarter. I did'nt even know what a Barber coin was then.
Soon I started searching lawns. Man there was silver everywhere! I found over three thosand silver coins just in the city park(over several years). at the local high school I found 9 silver halve's in one day,at the College, eleven silver halves along with four gold rings the same day. All with a detector that did'nt discriminate.
In 1972 I tripped and broke my detector. I did'nt buy another one until 1977,this time a bounty hunter big bud. In 1978 I heard a deep signal that turned out to be my first gold coin a 1880-s five dollar piece. The next year I found a 1849 ten in a local ghost town. soon I was finding other coins by the thousands.
The silver of course started dropping way off,now i'm lucky if I find ten silver coins in a year. One day at an old dump I found 7 tokens that I sold for $950.00. My other highlight of the 1990's was a 1875 twenty dollar gold found in Leadville Colorado. I had a a treasure magazine article about that one.
In 2001 I found a little over 20,000 coins in one year, What a ride! In 2003 I found another gold coin, this time a modern five in a large ring with two diamonds. My best estimate for 40 years detecting is that i've found 275,000 coins. I hav'nt stopped, almost 7000 this year so far.
I do not have a digital camera or PC,still if you want to see some of my finds I can email them to you.Just let me know at clarksegler@hotmail.com. I wish you all great hunting,my forty years has been a great experience...Kane 23
Forty years wow! On my birthday in 1968 my mother bought me a cheap detector. They were all BFO's and TR's back then,no discrimination. I was 14 at the time,my first find was a penny hidden by a friend. I think my detector cost $30.00. I did'nt find much until my mother bought a better detector a General electronics Mark 1A. Mostly I searched the dirt along the side of city roads, but still found a lot. My first decent find was a 1902 blackened barber quarter. I did'nt even know what a Barber coin was then.
Soon I started searching lawns. Man there was silver everywhere! I found over three thosand silver coins just in the city park(over several years). at the local high school I found 9 silver halve's in one day,at the College, eleven silver halves along with four gold rings the same day. All with a detector that did'nt discriminate.
In 1972 I tripped and broke my detector. I did'nt buy another one until 1977,this time a bounty hunter big bud. In 1978 I heard a deep signal that turned out to be my first gold coin a 1880-s five dollar piece. The next year I found a 1849 ten in a local ghost town. soon I was finding other coins by the thousands.
The silver of course started dropping way off,now i'm lucky if I find ten silver coins in a year. One day at an old dump I found 7 tokens that I sold for $950.00. My other highlight of the 1990's was a 1875 twenty dollar gold found in Leadville Colorado. I had a a treasure magazine article about that one.
In 2001 I found a little over 20,000 coins in one year, What a ride! In 2003 I found another gold coin, this time a modern five in a large ring with two diamonds. My best estimate for 40 years detecting is that i've found 275,000 coins. I hav'nt stopped, almost 7000 this year so far.
I do not have a digital camera or PC,still if you want to see some of my finds I can email them to you.Just let me know at clarksegler@hotmail.com. I wish you all great hunting,my forty years has been a great experience...Kane 23
I personally know this man and he is a hell of a treasure hunter. He has'nt even begun to tell you about all the tokens, coins, bottles, marbles, artifacts he has found through the years. There are outhouse's he's dug, the gold coins he's found (about 13 or so), coins 16-d mercury, silver dollars, jars full of tokens, handmade marbles. He lives his life as a treasure hunter and still managed to raise five children. His knowledge of history is amazing as is his knowledge of coins. (foriegn and USA) Cogratulations on forty years.
I asked my folks for a machine when I was a kid.... They never got me one 
