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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Awesome find man,truely the holy grail for a U.S. detectorist!!! Congrats on the banner and I don't think you need to submit it to W+E as I'm pretty sure they'll be contacting you for best finds 2008.They've contacted me the past two years in a row and I actually made it this year.Just make sure you have plenty of pics if you sell it cause I would have made it for 2006 also but I had sold the item and could not produce the pics so I missed out.Also check out best finds W+E 2007 as they have quite a few of these coins in there.Congrats again for a find of a lifetime and the banner!!! Bootstrap
 

Holy C---. u the man.
 

Awsome find! Still has some great detail.
 

Now that is one super find. Congratulations.

I would be in a daze for a week or so if that was my find.

Your year is off to a great start.

Again, congratulations on an outstanding find.

Ray S
 

How exciting!!!! Congrats! :thumbsup:
Can wait to hear about any other treasures you may find there!
Thanks Captn_ SE for posting info about that coin.
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CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!! SICK!!! :icon_sunny: :icon_sunny: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :occasion18: :occasion18: :icon_cheers: :icon_cheers: :wav: :wav:
 

Great find...
If you sell it and do not need the dough, invest the money in gold or silver coins, do not exchange a hard asset for paper (fiat) money. :icon_pirat:
 

Jeff,

Didn't get a chance to congratulate you on an awesome find! Truly incredible and inspiring :)

There's not one person here who doesn't wish that one day, they too will have their find of a lifetime. I think I'll give that a shot tomorrow :thumbsup:
 

What a wonderful piece of history. I would be so excited to find something like that.... I'm sure you will be celebrating :icon_sunny:
 

Wow,nice!! Sell it and fix your Jeep so we can go hunting!!
 

that's a nice $5,000 dollar find! sweeeeeeet!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

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