xcopperstax
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- Sep 3, 2018
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- Detector(s) used
- Garrett AT Max
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
I haven't been on here in a bit because I recently became a father! Better than any treasure I could ever find! I've turned into a lean mean diaper changing machine. My wife told me that as a fathers day gift I could go do some detecting so I met up with some friends the day before the big "F-Day". The spot was an old homesite and I didn't have particularly high hopes of any finds. Got there at Dad time (6:30 am) and started sweeping. The silver bandit showed up and wouldn't you know it right around 7:00 am about five minutes in for him he found a copper! It was a Mass copper in great condition. That was exciting maybe there were more! Within about three minutes I had a copper too! It turned out to be an 1827 Matron head! Nice!!!! My day was absolutely made! The bandit announced that he believed that he had found a rare version of the Mass copper that was worth big money. We are talking 15,000 in the lowest grade in PCGS. We were all shocked. Maybe even just a little jealous of the bandit. Maybe with a professional cleaning it would grade higher. The sky was the limit. We were all riding high of that find. That's more valuable than a gold coin I exclaimed! 4 hours later we were ready to wrap it up. I looked at PCGS and quickly realized that it was the wrong version of the coin. I had to break it to the bandit that his coin wasn't quite record book coin we thought. Damn better luck next time. Still pretty lucky though I have yet to find a Mass copper in Ma. I tooth picked this one and used some Andre's Pencils action. It has some nice detail but didn't come out quite as pristine as I thought it would. Still it's a great find for me! Thanks for reading!
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