FIND OF MY LIFETIME!!! Are you ready for this??

JeffInMass

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Hi All!

Obviously, gotta tell the story first- I actually found this Saturday March 15, but have been shaking too much to type!

I started working with a new guy at my job two weeks ago. As we got to know each other, I told him about my hobby and asked him where he lived and he told me a pretty old nearby town. I asked if he knew of any old parks, etc. to hunt and he told me that his house was built in the 1700's, so of course I asked him if my hunting partner Mike and I could hunt it.

He agreed, and we decided to sell and split if we found anything significant. We planned on hunting this past Saturday, but of course it had to rain, like it does every Saturday (which is my only full day off of the week!), but since it was clearing up about noon-ish, we headed up.

BTW, I Google-earthed his house and it looked huge, and it appeared to have a large front yard bisected by a circular drive. We were both pretty psyched.

When we got there, we saw the front yard was much smaller than it appeared on Google. The back of the house was huge, but overgrown with pretty high grass, small trees and so on- not easily huntable.

I decided to do that front section and gridded it up and down. First few passes yielded 2 wheats, 2 Indians and an assortment of old junk. I was pretty much done with the yard when I got a signal that sounded silverish, and although it didn't repeat perfectly, sounded definitely good enough to dig. I was down about 8-10 inches when my next handful of dirt told me I had the coin. I checked the hole, nothing else, so in my bucket went the dirt. Mike was with me at this point and he sifted through the dirt- VOILA!

As soon as he lifted it, I swear I saw 1652. I thought- SHILLING. But as he turned it over a couple of times, it looked like a Spanish coin. I took it over to a nearby puddle, rinsed the dirt off and sure as s#$%, there was a Pine Tree staring at me. PINE TREE SHILLING!!!

I still can't believe it to this very second- it's in amazing shape and I'm sending it out to PCGS to be certified, then we're doing as I promised- selling and splitting.

The third pic is of the coin in a holder in my hand- just to prove (to myself!!) this actually happened.

If I never find another coin....................

HH all,

Jeff
 

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WOW ~ that's truly amazing! VERY VERY EXCITING!! Congratulations! WOOHOOO!!!!!!!!
 

Geez...it's kinda' gonna be a letdown to see a merc in the next hole :D
AWESOME dig buddy.
 

checked my 07' redbook somewhere between 800. -17,000. WOW!, depending on condition of course.
 

Jeff ......

WAY COOL man !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and !!! :headbang: :headbang:

You guys over in Mass. are lucky ! I only know of one Pine Tree being dug in Ny.

Congrats bud :thumbsup:

D
 

Fantastic, that coin is awesome! Congrats on a great find and thanks for sharing WTG!! :thumbsup:
Glenn
 

incredible find, congratulations to you,

thanks for posting it !

vp
 

WOW!!! :o

How did you keep from having a heart attack?!
I woulda fell over right there! LOL
Congradulations! Very very Happy for you Jeff!
Do you have any idea what its worth???
 

:o Wow!!!, what a find, Congrats!
I bet your buddy is about ready to buy a detector now,, or maybe just a backhole... :D
I knew the coin was special, but couldn't remember hardly any details about it. Thanks to all the gang for all the great information on it
Continued Good luck, & Happy hunting~
 

Jeff that is Truly a Find of a Lifetime. I expect to see that coin in finds of the year in Western and Eastern Treasure magizine for the year of 2008. CONGRATS!!!!!

HH, Ringfinder
 

WOW, WHAT A FIND! HOPE YOUGET BACK THERE SOON .NEVER KNOW, MIGHT BE A HAND FULL IN THE GROUND. :icon_sunny: CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!! :icon_king: :icon_king: :icon_king: :tongue3: :thumbsup: :tard: :tongue3: :thumbsup: :tongue3: :headbang: :blob3: :blob8: :blob9: :director: :wav: :wav: :wav: :wav: :occasion14:
 

Another congrats! Please let us know when you get the grading results and value!
 

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