Big Tnet Group Hunt! Some Sweet Finds!

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Weather in SW PA turned from endless winter to beautiful Spring weather in just a few days. Steve In PA, JerV3, Metalheadz, Gare and myself met up in one of Jer’s not so secret park sites for an early 4 hour hunt. It was cool to meet Gare who drove in from Ohio bringing gifts for everyone, great guy.

This park has 200 years of history hidden under the layers of pull tabs, screw caps and rusty nails. You really have to know what you are doing to be successful in this environment and Jer showed us why he is the king of parks.

Jer’s finds, multiple silvers and old coins including what we thought was the find of the day a Classic Head Half Cent.
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Steve pulled through with some cool finds and he squeezed out a silver towards the end.

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Louis (Metalheadz) second hole was a Merc and continued to hit his little hot spot area to pull a Braided Hair Largie as well as what we thought was a junk ring.
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Gare and I couldn’t get our coils over the goods, just a handful of wheats and clad.

Fun day was had by all including a city cop who decided to stop in and check out what we were up to. Turns out he wants to get into the hobby and I advised him to start at Tnet.

A couple days later Louis texts the group with a close up of his junk ring.
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Turns out it is an extremely rare “Supermen of America Member” ring. These can go at auction at more than $10k in good shape. His is obviously dug, but has some nice details so maybe if properly cleaned can fetch $1,000.

I salvaged the week with an afternoon hunt yesterday at an old well hunted cellar hole popping my first complete colonial shoe buckle frame and a CW era Seated S Dime.
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Good luck out there!
 

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Well done folks on the outing, a good assortment of finds. Cool ring-a rare one at that. Congrats to all the finders
 

Excellent! I feel like I was there with everyone, thanks for the post. If the ring brought even a fraction of your guesstimate that would be amazing.
Fan dime tastic, btw.
Was the ground nice and soaked? We just got 30 inches of snow and it's almost all melted. Hope to get out and get muddy soon. HH ALL
 

That park was truly a challenge. In some areas there was a crisp signal every 12 inches, although most in the pulltab/nickel/foil range. I was trying to cherry pick dime and quarter signals, but didn't run over too many of those, probably because everyone who hunts that park does the same thing :laughing7:
I did get my first wheat penny flattened by a train....
 

I never got a coin :( I thank these guys for the invite !!! Next time has to be better. It can not be any worse.
 

it's always fun digging with a bunch of nutty detectors :)
 

What a great bunch of finds guy's - well done ! :occasion14:

I live close to "Gare" - we've gone on a lot of hunts together.

Good Hunting !
 

Nice write up Thad.

Gare sorry I missed you Sunday. There was alot of construction going on down there and it made it hard to find one another.

Yes its very tough hunting down there. It takes alot of practice to get used to the machine gun of tones at this park.

With some patience though you can be rewarded with some keepers. Not uncommon to see coins 12 inches deep here.

Site gets hunted alot. Ive seen groups there in the past. We'll take you to an easier site next go around.

Hope to get back down there Sunday again.

Jer
 

Those are greats finds, what a great hunt!
 

That's Kool y'all got to hook up, sounds fun!!!! Krazy part of your story is I was just watching an episode of Pawn Stars (don't ask me why) and a guy brought in the exact ring to sell and they said the same about it's rarity. DEF a good find there Gare!!!!!! Congratz to y'all......
 

Nice job boys!!!! Sounds like a lot of fun!!!
 

Looks like a great time was had by all- Congrats to everyone for all the sweet finds!
 

Yall did pretty good I'd say! Those parks can be tough to hunt!
 

What a great dig! Glad you guys met up! What fun!!! ...and good saves by everyone all around!!!
 

Very Nice Hunt!!!! Congrats!!!
 

Nice hunt! Still waiting for the ground to thaw here.

aj
 

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